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Sunday, March 4, 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
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 - 3/15 »	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
Monday, March 5, 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	Seymour and Miriam: Yiddish Theater and Radio in 20th century New York Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Cost: free Contact: Center for Jewish Culture Description: In this performance, Caraid O'Brien tells the story of the rise and fall of Yiddish theater and radio in New York City through the lives of Seymour Rechtzeit and Miriam Kressyn. Together they cohosted one of the longest running radio shows in American history, appearing on WEVD from the 1940s to the 1990s. Through their radio programs, they documented the influence of the Yiddish theater on the mainstream American stage. The performer, Caraid O'Brien, is an actor, writer and translator based in New York City. She first began studying Yiddish as an intern at the Yiddish Book Center in 1994. Her book on the lives and careers of Seymour Rechtzeit and Miriam Kressyn will be forthcoming from Harvard Judaica. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Culture at UMass Dartmouth and Tifereth Israel Congregation. Please park in lot #13 or #14. The presentation will be in the Library Grand Reading Room at UMass Dartmouth. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Judaic Studies, Center for Jewish Culture, University Marketing
« 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
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
« 2/15 - 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
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Terra Dotta Training - Drop In - Library 225 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Terra Dotta Travel Registry Training Drop in for hands on guidance to register overnight travel for yourself or as a proxy for someone else. Learn how to access the application and where to find job aids and FAQ's. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	The Singing Planet: Why Listen to the Ocean? Distinguished Speaker Biology Seminar Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Biology Seminar Series Description: Join us for a unique, informative, interesting and FUN presentation! Dr. Chris Clark will be visiting UMass Dartmouth for a student-organized event. He will be presenting a seminar at noon, with some pre-seminar mingling (including coffee and snacks) at 11:30! This event is open to the public! The Singing Planet: Why Listen to the Ocean? Almost all marine animals, whales, dolphins, seals, tiny shrimp, use sound for all the essential activities of life and depend on a naturally quiet ocean for survival. Human activities, especially noise from commercial shipping and explosions from offshore energy exploration inject massive amounts of noise into the ocean, and scientific observations indicate that the noises we generate to support our way of life are imposing a biological cost on ocean life. Dr. Clark's presentation will show the immense scales over which this singing planet's ocean life can be observed and why it's critical that we listen. Dr. Christopher W. Clark, an engineer and biologist, was the founding Director and Imogene Johnson Senior Scientist for the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/) and research professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University. When asked what he does, his answer is simple: I listen to this singing planet! Dr. Clark helped develop and apply advanced acoustic technology to record and analyze the sounds of wildlife around the globe. His work advances the understanding of animal communication and the health of wildlife populations. He has listened to and studied whales for over forty years, with a focus on endangered North Atlantic right whales. He has a long history of successfully working at the interface between science, applied engineering, industry, and regulations all with the specific objective of using science to understand the potential impacts of human activities on marine mammals and to inspire and enable the scientific conservation of marine wildlife and habitats. Most recently Chris has devoted considerable effort to scientific advocacy through documentary films and outreach. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/945498155625897/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Biology
« 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
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	EAS-PHD Proposal Defense by Zachary J. Grant Location: Textiles Building 105 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: TITLE: ON IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT HIGH ORDER SSP METHODS WITH A VARIETY STAGES, STEPS, AND DERIVATIVES FOR LINER AND NONLINEAR PROBLEMS Abstract: High order spatial discretizations with monotonicity properties are often desirable for the solution of hyperbolic PDEs. These methods can advantageously be coupled with high order strong stability preserving time discretizations. The search for high order strong stability time-stepping methods with large allowable strong stability coefficient has been an active area of research over the last two decades. This research has shown that explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods exist only up to fourth order, and implicit ones only up to sixth order, while multistep SSP methods have small allowable time step. To break these order barriers and SSP time-step bounds, we turn to general (multistep, multi-stage) linear methods of order two and above. Order conditions and monotonicity conditions for such methods were worked out in terms of the method coefficients, and we formulated a numerical optimization to find optimal methods of up to five steps, eight stages, and tenth order. Another approach to breaking the order barrier is to restrict ourselves to solving only linear autonomous problems. In this case the order conditions simplify and this order barrier is lifted: explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods of any linear order exist, but these methods reduce to second order when applied to nonlinear problems. We found explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods with large allowable time-step, that feature high linear order and simultaneously have the optimal fourth order nonlinear order. Finally, we turn to multiderivative time-stepping methods which have recently been implemented with hyperbolic PDEs. We describe sufficient conditions for a two-derivative multistage method to be SSP, and formulate an optimization problem that were used to find optimal SSP multistage two-derivative methods. These methods were tested on a variety of scalar hyperbolic partial differential equations, which demonstrate the need for the SSP condition and the sharpness of the SSP time-step. Advisor: Dr. Sigal Gottlieb, Mathematics Committee members: Prof. Gaurav Khanna, Physics; Prof. Yanlai Chen, Mathematics; and Prof. Alfa Heryudono, Mathematics For further information, please contact Dr. Sigal Gottlieb at 508-999-8205 or by email sgottlieb@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: University Community, Mathematics, College of Engineering, Physics
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM	#UMassDinSpace Panel Discussion Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room Cost: none Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room Evening Panel discussion with featured UMassD professors and moderator, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld. Faculty will speak on topics related to space travel in preparation for our live satellite downlink conversation with alumnus NASA Astronaut Scott Tingle '87: Vijay Chalivendra, Mechanical Engineering, Materials science Mahzah Hojjat, Paychology, Human relationships Lamya Karim, Bioengineering, Bone density Dayalan Kasilingham, Electrical Engineering, Signal processing Caitlin Stover, Nursing, Health For more information: Ray Laoulache, Associate Dean rlaoulache@umassd.edu 508-910-6919 This event is open to the public. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/scott-tingle/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	Terra Dotta Training - Drop In - Library 225 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Terra Dotta Travel Registry Drop in Training Drop in for hands on instruction on how to register overnight travel in Terra Dotta for yourself or as a proxy for someone else. Information on where to find job the Terra Dotta application, job aids and FAQ's. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/peoplesoftfinance/terradotta-travelregistry/ Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Terra Dotta Training - Drop In - Library 225 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Terra Dotta Travel Registry Training. Drop in for hands on instruction on how to register overnight travel in Terra Dotta for yourself or as a proxy for someone else. Information on where to find the Terra Dotta application, job aids and FAQ's. Library 225 Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM	#UMassDinSpace Live NASA Satellite Downlink with Astronaut Scott Tingle '87 Location: > See description for location Cost: None but RSVP needed see website Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Scott Tingle '87 UMassD alumnus is aboard the International Space Station Learn more about his space journey and speak with Scott LIVE from the International Space Station. Live satellite broadcast from the International Space Station with Scott Tingle. Scott will speak with UMassD via a NASA downlink and answer questions submitted by students, faculty, staff and alumni. Tuesday, March 6 12:00-2:00 p.m. UMass Dartmouth Auditorium For more information: Lara Stone lstone@umassd.edu This event is open to the public. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/scott-tingle/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing
« 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
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM	Confidential HIV Testing Location: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Cost: Bring your health insurance card. Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: The test requires a blood draw, which is performed by a trained counselor from Seven Hills. Results are available approximately one week from the testing date. No appointments are necessary; testing provided on a first come, first served basis. BRING YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE CARD. (No one will be denied service based on insurance status.) EAT & DRINK WATER PRIOR TO ARRIVING FOR YOUR TEST. For more information about HIV testing, visit: http://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/hivtesting/ For more information on National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, visit: https://www.hiv.gov/events/awareness-days/women-and-girls Fact Sheet on HIV Among Women, developed by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/group/gender/women/cdc-hiv-women.pdf Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness 508.910.6965 http://www.umassd.edu/livewell Link: https://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/hivtesting/ Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Health Services, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Livewell
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Getting Started in myCourses Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This face-to-face workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the teaching and learning features of (myCourses) Blackboard Learn. You will learn about the roles an instructor plays in the online environment and identify key attributes for success. From there, you will learn how to set up the Course Menu, your students' access point to tools and content, and how to create Content Areas that contain materials, tools, and resources. You will have the opportunity to add a course structure to your development course, allowing you to learn about Blackboard Learn tools and features as you experience them in the course environment. You will become familiar with some common start-up tasks, such as creating announcements, adding a syllabus, adding calendar entries, and setting up assignments Finally, you will view the course as a student to become familiar with how the course environment appears to your own students. As a student, you will learn how to access and navigate through tools and content. In Lib 135 Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
« 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
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to Access Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Microsoft Access. Participants create a database, define fields, work with tables and create basic reports. Data entry, find, sort, and query features are covered in detail. Importing and exporting data, as well as the creation of lookups and input masks are also introduced. No previous Access experience is needed. 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
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Master of Science Project Defense by: Kyle Andrade Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: ABET Assessment System Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Abstract: ABET is the U.S. accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET accredits over 3,300 programs at more than 680 colleges and universities in 24 countries. The ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs is based upon what students learn and are able to do in the course of their program of studies as opposed to what they are presented in a curriculum. Institutions are required to have educational objectives and to have some way of assessing how well program goals and objectives are being reached. This assessment also known as the program outcome measurement (POME) is then used constantly make improvements to the program. This ABET assessment system will be used to generate those assessments. The system will need to be set up each semester by an administrator. Once setup, each professor will login and enter all of the measures (grades) they have captured from their students. Once setup and all grades have been entered the ABET assessment is automatically generated in the POMEs tab of the system. This will streamline the POME creation method as the previous method was performed by multiple individuals and proved to be a tedious activity. Each of the Professors would generate their own Course Outcome Measurement (COME). Each of these COMEs would be combined manually to create the POME for each major. Thus this system would save the department a great deal of time and effort. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier Committee Members: Dr. Antonio H. Costa and Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *For further information, please contact Dr. Paul J. Fortier at 508.999.8544, or via email at pfortier@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Page Up Training Location: Library 135 Contact: Leslie Mercure, Office of Human Resources Description: Training on the University's new applicant tracking system Page Up. Topical Areas: Training, Human Resources, audience: Staff, audience: Faculty
« 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
Wednesday, March 7, 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
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Layouts with FileMaker Pro Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: This workshop covers the creation of custom layouts in FileMaker Pro. Participants learn how to set up layout parts, and apply color and text formatting to a layout. Also covered are tab controls, web portals, summary fields used for reporting and sliding/printing. Previous FileMaker Pro experience, or 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
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
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Italian Film Series Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Italian Film Series - "Black Sunday" (1960), dir. Mario Bava, 88 7:00 PM on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 LARTS-117 Join us for our 3rd Annual Italian Film Series at UMass Dartmouth, co-sponsored by the Foreign Literature and Languages Department and the History Department. This semester, we will be delving into various Italian films in the horror genre. Our second film of this semester will be Mario Bava's classic "Black Sunday" (1960): In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, Black Sunday stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch -- but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later. This newly mastered edition is the original Italian cut of the film, complete with Roberto Nicolosi's expressive score and three minutes of footage deleted from the U.S. Release version (Kanopy). Free admission. All films have English subtitles. Any questions may be directed to Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu or Prof. Matthew Sneider at msneider@umassd.edu. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/339704056528810/ Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Foreign Literature and Languages, Films
« 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
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Department of Fisheries Oceanography / SMAST seminar - March 7, 2018 - Pingguo He PhD Location: New Bedford , New Bedford, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography Fisheries at the Global Scale: Experiences and highlights working at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pingguo He, PhD Professor UMass Dartmouth / SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography Wednesday, March 7, 2018 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm SMAST-E rm. 101/102 836 South Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, MA Abstract: What does it look like working at the most prominent international fisheries organization? With great curiosity, I spent three months of my sabbatical leave during the Fall of 2017 at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. During this talk, I will highlight some global projects and institutional instruments related to marine capture fisheries, as well as bits and pieces of life in the ancient city of Rome. 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 https://www.umassd.edu/smast/events/seminar-series/ and click on a highlighted title For more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Terra Dotta Training with PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses Refresher Location: CCB 115 Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Terra Dotta/Travel Registry Training and PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses Overview of Registering Travel as an Employee or Proxy on the travel registry and a review of PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators
« 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
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Seminar Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Seminar Announcement "Climate, ocean circulation, and sea level changes under stabilization and overshoot pathways to 1.5o C of global warming" Dr. Jaime Palter Assistant Professor URI Graduate School of Oceanography Rhode Island Wednesday, March 7, 2018 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm SMAST West, Room 204 706 S. Rodney French Blvd New Bedford, MA 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 https://www.umassd.edu/smast/events/seminar-series/ and click on a highlighted title. For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: SMAST Seminar Series, School for Marine Sciences and Technology
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Intersections of Struggle with Walidah Imarisha Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Performance and presentation by multidisciplinary educator, historian, writer, activist scholar and cutting-edge poet, Walidah Imarisha Grand Reading Room, Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth On the overlapping of Women's History Month and Black History 4 Seasons join us for an inter-disciplinary performance and presentation by multidisciplinary educator, historian, writer, activist scholar and cutting-edge poet, Walidah Imarisha. Learn about the ways Walidah Imarisha has used different forms of writing, research and spoken word to challenge racism, mass incarceration, economic exploitation, and gender injustice. Imarisha's history teachings expose how racism enforces and maintains whiteness through laws, zoning, and gentrification. Discuss how we can use all our creativity to fight for social justice. Imarisha will share from her wide range of works, including her history workshop "Why aren't there more Black people in Oregon?", segments from her fiction/ non-fiction/ science fiction, and poetry: Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Another World is Possible and Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption. Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Labor Education Center, the Black History 4 Seasons, Fredrick Douglas Unity House, Center for Gender and Sexuality, History Department. For a more information go to the Labor Education Center webpage: https://www.umassd.edu/labored/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, University Community, Poetry, Black History 4 Seasons, Black Studies, University Marketing, History, Women and Gender Studies, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Resumes and More for Engineering Students Location: > See description for location Contact: Career Development Center Description: Get your help with your resume, cover letter, and job search in this session geared toward Engineering students. Bring your questions and resume if you have one. The event will be held in DION 103. Topical Areas: Students, College of Engineering, Career Development Center
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Terra Dotta Travel Registry Overview and PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses Refresher Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: This workshop is an overview of the Terra Dotta Travel Registry where we will review how to register yourself for overnight travel and register as a proxy for someone else. In addition, we will review PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses. Attendees will learn where and how to enter and view travel authorizations and expense reports. This class is in CCB-115. Contact Jean Schlesinger for more information. jschlesinger@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Workshop, Training, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM	CANCELLED: Performance Jam Session Series Location: CVPA Room 104 Contact: Music Department Description: This event has been canceled due to inclement weather. It will be rescheduled to: March 21 at 8pm in Room 104. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Music
« 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
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Intersections of Struggle with Walidah Imarisha Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Intersections of Struggle with Walidah Imarisha 4 - 6pm, Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 Claire T. Carney Library Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth On the overlapping of Women's History Month and Black History 4 Seasons join us for an inter-disciplinary performance and presentation by multidisciplinary educator, historian, writer, activist scholar and cutting-edge poet, Walidah Imarisha. Learn about the ways Walidah Imarisha has used different forms of writing, research and spoken word to challenge racism, mass incarceration, economic exploitation, and gender injustice. Discuss how we can use all our creativity to fight for social justice. Imarisha will share from her wide range of works, including her history workshop 'Why aren't there more Black people in Oregon?', segments from her fiction/ non-fiction/ science fiction, and poetry: Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Another World is Possible and Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption. Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Labor Education Center, Black History 4 Seasons, Frederick Douglas Unity House, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality, and History Department. For a more information go to the Labor Education Center webpage: https://www.umassd.edu/labored/ Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, Black Studies, History, Women and Gender Studies, Black History 4 Seasons, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Labor Education Center, Labor Studies
Thursday, March 8, 2018
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
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Terra Dotta Drop in Training- Foster Admin 308 Location: Foster Administration, Room 308 Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Drop in for an informal review of the Terra Dotta Travel Registry system. Review where to find Job Aids and FAQ's. Review how to log in to the Terra Dotta Travel Registry and register overnight travel for yourself or another person. Feel free to bring your laptop if you want to register your travel during the class review. Please register as there is limited space in the room. Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Human Resources, Training, Workshop
« 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
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Fibers Club Fashion Show Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The CVPA Fibers Club is hosting their second biennial fashion show at the UMASS Dartmouth Star Store Campus. Please arrive early. The fashion show will include the work of current students from multiple disciplines, faculty, and alumni. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Christopher Rogers at crogers4@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts
7:30 PM	Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts - Artist Talk & Reception / New Bedford AHA! Night Location: University Art Gallery Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts Exhibition Dates: 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 Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm Contact: Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, vlevitt@umassd.edu Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Visual Design
« 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
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to Excel Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: This workshop provides a practical introduction to Microsoft Excel. Hands-on practice with Excel allows participants to learn the skills needed to set up a spreadsheet, make keyboard entries, and perform calculations. Participants learn to produce worksheets such as budgets and payrolls. Formatting, using formulas and simple functions are introduced. No previous Excel experience is needed. 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
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Peace Corps Panel Discussion & Info Session Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 205 Contact: Career Development Center Description: Come to the Peace Corps Panel Discussion & Info Session to learn about the benefits of Peace Corps service. A panel of returned Peace Cops Volunteers will discuss the challenging, rewarding, and inspirational moments of being a Peace Corps volunteer. Gain tips to guide you through the application process. 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
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Federal Government Panel Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: Career Development Center Description: Federal government employer panel will discuss the hiring process for federal jobs and the job market for different fields in the government sector. Come and learn about different types of federal employers (such as Office of the Inspector General, IRS-Criminal Investigation sector and more!) Working in federal government is rewarding learn how you can support your country and love your work! Topical Areas: Students, Career Development Center, Public Policy, University Marketing
« 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
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	International Women's Day with Trans Women Poets of Color: Spoken Words Event with Justice Ameer and Chrysanthemum Tran Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Come celebrate International Women's Day with trans women poets of color! Spoken Words Event with Justice Ameer and Chrysanthemum Tran on Thursday, March 8th, 2018 at 2:00pm in the Frederick Douglass Unity House. Sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies, the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Frederick Douglass Unity House. For more information please contact Frederick Douglass Unity House at (508) 999-9222. Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Black Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Poetry, Black History 4 Seasons, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Student Organizations
Friday, March 9, 2018
« 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
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
« 2/15 - 4:00 PM	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
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Spring recess begins (after last class or lab) Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Spring recess begins today after last class or lab. NOTE: Please consult the PCE calendar if you are taking courses through Professional and Continuing Education. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Spring
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	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
Saturday, March 10, 2018
« 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
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Spring recess begins after last class (University Extension Only) Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Spring recess begins today after last class or lab. NOTE: Please consult the PCE calendar if you are taking courses through Professional and Continuing Education. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/extension/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Spring
« 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
« 2/20 - 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

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