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Sunday, February 18, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Blue and Gold Room of Campus Center Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
Monday, February 19, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Presidents' Day Holiday: no classes Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Presidents' Day holiday, no classes today. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Spring
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM	Information Table: MS in Accounting Location: Campus Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: A representative from the University of New Hampshire's Master of Science in Accounting program will be on campus: Tuesday, February 20 11:30am - 1:30pm MacLean Campus Center Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center, _Charlton College of Business
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Internship Information Session Location: > See description for location Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? Come to this session to learn how to get started. The event will be held in the MCC Conference Room, 2nd floor, Room 218. Topical Areas: Students, Career Development Center
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Follow Monday's class schedule Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Follow Monday's schedule. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Spring
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
Today - 3/19 »	UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey Location: > See description for location Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project. For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Health Services
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Subject: Kaput Center Symposium: Dr. Maria Blanton, Senior Scientist at TERC in Cambridge, MA Can Young Children Think Algebraically? Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Subject: Kaput Center Symposium: Dr. Maria Blanton, Senior Scientist at TERC in Cambridge, MA Can Young Children Think Algebraically? Abstract: Since Jim Kaput (and others) began advocating over two decades ago that teaching and learning algebra needed to begin in elementary grades, the national discourse on school algebra has shifted significantly, resulting in recent learning standards that codify this approach in elementary grades mathematics. But what is the evidence that this approach is valid? Can children in elementary grades think algebraically? In Project LEAP, our goal has been to build on Kaput's algebra framework to design a broad curricular approach to algebra instruction in elementary grades that examines these critical questions. In this presentation, I will explore our evidence for the nature of children's algebraic thinking across Grades K to 5. Our findings, along with the curricular approach that gives rise to them, help build out Kaput's vision of early algebra and his desire to 'democratize access' to mathematics for all students. Biography: Maria Blanton is a Senior Scientist at TERC in Cambridge, MA. Prior to joining TERC, she was a Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her primary research interests include teaching and learning algebra in the elementary grades and classroom practices that support building mathematical arguments. Her research has led to about $13M in federally-funded projects and numerous national and international presentations and publications (in, e.g., Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Cognition and Instruction, Teaching Children Mathematics). She is co-editor of the research volumes Algebra in the Early Grades (2008, Taylor/Francis) and Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades (2009, Routledge), author of Algebra and the Elementary Classroom: Transforming Thinking, Transforming Practice (2008, Heinemann), and co-author of Developing Essential Understanding of Algebraic Thinking for Teaching Mathematics in Grades 3 to 5 (2011, NCTM) and Teaching with Mathematical Argument: Strategies for Supporting Everyday Instruction (Heinemann, 2018). She has served as Chair of the Editorial Panel for the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education and Chair of the Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education (SIG-RME) of AERA. When: Wednesday, February 21, 4-5:30 PM Where: Room 157 at the Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, 200 Mill Road, Suite 150A, Fairhaven MA 02719 If you have any questions, please send an email to kaputcenter@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Mathematics, STEM Education
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Science Fiction Book Club meeting Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Join the Science Fiction Book Club for our February meeting! We'll be discussing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick. All are welcome! Questions? Contact Hilary Kraus at hkraus@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library, English
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Red Watch Band Alcohol Overdose Prevention Bystander Intervention Training Location: > See description for location Cost: Free. Pre-registration required at https://webapps.umassd.edu/events/healtheducation/ Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: The Red Watch Band Alcohol Overdose Prevention Bystander Intervention Training is a peer-led training that provides the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and intervene effectively in an alcohol-related medical emergency. Red Watch Band will give you the confidence to do the right thing when a person's life could depend on it. Participants receive a certificate, resource guide, and a wristband. LOCATION: Auditorium Room 007 Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness 508.910.6965 http://www.umassd.edu/livewell Link: https://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/redwatchbandtraining/ Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Corsairs Care, Health Services, Livewell
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Faculty/Staff Drop-in Mindfulness Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Share in a brief mindfulness practice with colleagues. People are welcome to drop-in at any point in the semester. No prior experience with mindfulness is needed. Location: Reflection Room, Campus Center (223) For more information, contact: Aminda O’Hare, ext. 8761, aohare@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Joint DFO/DEOS Seminar - February 21, 2018 - Autumn Oczkowski Location: New Bedford , New Bedford, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Joint Department of Fisheries Oceanography and Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences How Major Reductions in Nitrogen Loads Have Impacted the Narragansett Bay Ecosystem Autumn Oczkowski Research Ecologist Department of Environmental Protection Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm SMAST-East, rm 101/102 836 South Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, MA ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, nitrogen (N) loads to Narragansett Bay have decreased by about 65%. These reductions were the direct result of multiple sewage treatment plant upgrades to tertiary treatment, a process which removes bioavailable N. I will describe the ecosystem response to the N reductions and assess how the distribution of sewage N in Narragansett Bay has changed from before, during, and after the upgrades. Comparisons of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) concentrations and Secchi depth from bay-wide surveys conducted in the early 1980s and 2014-2016 did not yield distinct differences. To look more closely at potential spatial and temporal changes in bioavailable N distribution over time, I used nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) stable isotope measurements of particulate matter, macroalgae, and hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria). In contrast to comparable studies from other places, the δ15N results indicated that sewage still plays a dominant role in supporting primary and secondary production, while the δ13C data suggested that overall net production in Narragansett Bay has decreased. The sum of these observations is that the Bay is still sewage-supported but may be undergoing some oligotrophication. To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org and click on "Alternate login" you will have to login as smast@umassd.edu with the password: smastumassd After login you will have to click on ALL CLASSES (MAR 700-01 - DEOS seminar or MAR 700-02 - DFO seminar) and click on the green LIVE streaming. To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted title. For more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu (DFO) or s1silva@umassd.edu (DEOS) Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Class Rings Location: MacLean Campus Center , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Campus Store Description: A representative from Jostens will be on campus to answer questions and take orders for class rings and graduation announcements. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Campus Store
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
« 2/20 - 3/19 »	UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey Location: > See description for location Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project. For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Health Services
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Excel Grade Books Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: This workshop is geared toward educators who wish to simplify the process of evaluating student performance and calculating final grades. Participants learn how to organize student data on a worksheet, calculate averages, weighted averages, and use a lookup table to control the contribution of different scores toward a student's final grade. Excel can even convert number grades to letter grades automatically! Also covered are some of Excel's statistical functions. Previous Excel experience is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	QPR Suicide Prevention Training Location: > See description for location Cost: Free. Pre-registration required at https://webapps.umassd.edu/events/healtheducation/ Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and intervene effectively. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer, three simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. LOCATION:Liberal Arts Building (LARTS), Room 118 Light refreshments provided. Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness 508.910.6965 http://www.umassd.edu/livewell If you are in crisis, please call The National Suicide Prevention Helpline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or text Hello to 741-741, the Crisis Text Line. Both services are available 24/7. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/qprsuicidepreventiontraining/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Corsairs Care, Health Services, Livewell
Thursday, February 22, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Afternoon Concert Series Location: CVPA Room 153 Contact: Music Department Description: Marcelle Gauvin and Wes Brown perform jazz music. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Music
12:00 AM - 4:00 AM	Class Rings Location: MacLean Campus Center , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Campus Store Description: A representative from Jostens will be on campus to answer questions and take orders for class rings and graduation announcements. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Campus Store
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to InDesign, Part 3 Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: The third workshop in the three part series covers working with color, including managing color using the Swatches palette, using the eyedropper tool, and colorizing black and white images. Styles are also covered, focusing on Paragraph and Object Styles. Previous InDesign experience, or Parts 1 and 2 of the Introduction class is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM	StressLess Day Location: > See description for location Cost: Free! Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: Stop by for just a few minutes or stay for a few hours to relax, unwind, and decompress. Get a mini-massage. Play! Jump rope, hula hoop, ride a hippity hop. Color, craft, create Lego creations, and play board games. Learn more about campus resources to help you stress less for success. Sponsored by Claire T. Carney Library and LiveWell:Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness. Contacts: Kari Mofford, kmofford@umassd.edu or LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness, livewell@umassd.edu Link: http://www.umassd.edu/stressless Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Claire T. Carney Library, Health Services, Livewell
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM	College of Nursing and the University of the Azores - Community Health Forum, Global Sharing, Local Caring Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Cost: 0 Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences Description: Graduate nursing students and faculty from the University of the Azores and UMass Dartmouth will be sharing their community projects. This will be followed by an open forum to discuss current global trends in community/public health nursing. Link: n/a Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, College of Nursing
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
« 2/20 - 3/19 »	UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey Location: > See description for location Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project. For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Health Services
Friday, February 23, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Drop-in Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) Monday through Friday Noon-1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Study Abroad
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	In-Class Polling with iClicker Cloud Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: Come explore iClicker Cloud, the new classroom response system from iClicker. This new version of iClicker allows students to use a smartphone, tablet, laptop or iClicker remote to respond with during class. Response systems help create a more engaging classroom environment for your students, while enabling content reinforcement and thinking skills. (In Lib 135) Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Jeffrey Rodriguez Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Modeling and Design of High-Speed/High-Linearity Photodetectors for Optical to RF Conversion Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Abstract: The advantages of using optical fiber as a transmission medium for microwave signals have led to an increasing interest in the design and implementation of microwave photonic links. Advantages of optical fiber include; low loss, low weight, flexibility, immunity to Electro-magnetic interference (EMI), and the prospect of higher bandwidth. Using the properties of optical fiber; microwave photonic links can generate, distribute, and process microwave signals for applications such as radar, communications, and sensors. Despite its many advantages over traditional microwave links, microwave photonic links do still suffer from higher noise figure, poor dynamic range due to the nonlinear properties in the electrical-to-optical (E/O) and optical-to-electrical (O/E) conversion processes. This report presents a model and design of an efficient high-speed/high-linearity photodetector capable of meeting requirements imposed on the O/E conversion process by modern microwave and Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. The modeling and design effort will include the study of a backside illuminated Mesa structure Uni-Travelling-Carrier (UTC) Photodetector and a traveling wave UTC structure (TW-UTC). The Mesa structure design will target applications from L band to K band, whereas the TW-UTC structure will target W band applications. Both designs will include a novel approach to the semiconductor epitaxial layer structure to achieve the desired performance. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Yifei Li Committee Members: Dr. David A. Brown and Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth and Dr. Tariq Manzur, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) *For further information, please contact Dr. Yifei Li at 508.999.8841, or via email at yifei.li@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Introduction to Qualtrics Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their own surveys. Students may also use Qualtrics under the direction of a Faculty or Staff member. This workshop covers the authoring and administration of surveys, as well as data collection. Question types are covered in detail, and survey logic is also included. No previous survey experience is necessary. Note that access to Qualtrics is managed by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Please contact Jonathan Bonilla at JBonilla1@umassd.edu at least three business days prior to this workshop to request access. Students must have a Faculty or Staff advisor request access on their behalf. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM	Terra Dotta Travel Registry - Admin 308 Location: Foster Administration, Room 308 Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: An overview of Terra Dotta Travel Registry Learn how to register yourself for travel on the Terra Dotta Travel Registry. Learn how to register someone else as a proxy on the Terra Dotta Travel Registry. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
« 2/20 - 3/19 »	UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey Location: > See description for location Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project. For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Health Services
Saturday, February 24, 2018
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues Feb 15 - March 9 Collaborators: Center for Undisciplined Research James Edwards, Michael Swartz Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts. The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery). CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 2/16 - 5/4 »	Financial Aid Lab Location: Liberal Arts Building 203 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, Students
« 2/15 - 3/15 »	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Feb 7 - March 15, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel. Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork. Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life." Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book. Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence. The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm. The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava. Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition. University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740 www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries gallery@umassd.edu Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
« 2/15 - 3/9 »	Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Mouthfeel Feb 15 - March 9, 2018 Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia. Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses. The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia). PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu CVPA Campus Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon gallery@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
« 2/20 - 3/19 »	UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey Location: > See description for location Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project. For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Health Services
5:45 PM - 8:00 PM	Black History Month Show 2018 Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium) , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Umassd students are required to bring a hygienic item as a donation. Non-Umassd guest are $10 wtithout a donation and $5 with a donation. Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: UMass Dartmouth's Annual Black History Month Show presented by Sigma Phi Rho Fraternity, Inc. Mu Chapter and the Black Student Union. The show was originally created by the Black Student Union and Sigma Phi Rho as a way to celebrate and educate our peers on Black Excellence. It is now one of the biggest collaborations on campus. This year's the theme is "Breaking the Chains of Colonization", which will highlight the many ways colonization still effects us as a generation and as a people. There are many sub-topics that will be highlighted under this theme which include classism, colorism, poverty, immigration policies, war, mass incarceration and so much more. The committee has been working hard to make sure we push the educational component of the show, by carefully choosing the acts that will perform and the host. We have decided to have world-renown poet Porsha O. host the show and DJ Sham! for accompaniment. This year's ticket prices include an option for donations that will benefit the Women's Center in New Bedford (A Women's Shelter) and Hayden McFadden Elementary School. Examples of donations include any and all hygienic items (feminine products, baby diapers, shampoo, razors, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, etc.) Items will be collected at the door to the Main Auditorium when entering for the show. For more info contact Moriah Wiggins at mwiggins@umassd.edu Link: tinyurl.com/BHMS2018 Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Black Studies, Black History 4 Seasons, Campus Services, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Student Organizations

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