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Thursday, April 14, 2022
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2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition Artist Talks This Thursday, AHA! Night at 7 pm, Star Store Campus
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Contact: CVPA
- Description: UMass Dartmouth 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Artist Talks: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14, 7 pm
Exhibition Dates: March 30 – May 6
Exhibiting Artists:
Elizabeth Peña-Alvarez, Katrina Benner, Jordan Blankenship, Daniel S. DeLuca, Kelly Devitt, Yurie Hayashi, Joseph Schairer, Katy Rodden Walker
The UMass Dartmouth 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The creative work of graduating students ranges from traditional media such as painting, sculpture, ceramics, to digital media or site-specific installation.
UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Viera Levitt says that “the exhibition, to the credit of the artists, does not shy away from the darkness of the past, the two pandemic driven years shrouded in violence and looming climate catastrophe, but showcases as well, a light of hope and a path to get there. From intimate and quiet to loud and bold, this work presents the complexity of our times as well as the internal worlds of these young artists, engaged in exploratory journeys.”
The UMass Dartmouth 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition is open daily from 9 am to 6 pm at Star Store Campus - University Art Gallery, Crapo Gallery, Swain Studio, Gallery 244, and Bubbler Gallery through May 6. The Artist Talks are planned for Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm. The projections in the Swain Studio are available for viewing from the Purchase Street daily till 10 pm.
All events are free and open to the public.
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and exhibition curator, gallery@umassd.edu, 508-999-8555
- Topical Areas: University Community, General Public, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music, Fine Arts, Visual Design
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3:30 PM
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Corsair Career Series - Elevator Pitch Showcase
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Center
- Description: You will develop and practice your individual elevator pitch to be delivered in a networking setting in this final session. Students will network with each other to market and promote skills.
- Link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/987347/share_preview
- Topical Areas: Faculty, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Center, Student Affairs
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GIC Annual Enrollment
- Location: Online
- Contact: Human Resources
- Description: Annual Enrollment offers eligible Commonwealth of Massachusetts employees the opportunity to review GIC benefit options and enroll in or update coverage without a qualifying event.
Flexible spending is the only benefit you need to re-enroll in every year during open enrollment if you would like to continue to have this benefit.
You do not need to do anything with your health insurance benefit if you would like to continue with the same plan.
- Link: https://my.umassd.edu/group/human-resources/2023-benefits
- Topical Areas: Faculty, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
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11:30 AM
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Interpersonal Therapy (IT) Group
- Location: Online
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Do you notice yourself following patterns in your friendships, romantic relationships, or professional relationships? Have you ever struggled to confidently express your authentic thoughts and feelings? Do you worry that the relationships you have may not be as fulfilling as possible?
If any of these reflect your experiences, the interpersonal therapy group (Thursday's from 10:00am to 11:30am) may be a good fit for you. This group is designed to guide you through the process of building insight around your relationships with other people.
If you are interested in learning more, contact Nik Olendzki (nolendzki@umassd.edu).
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate
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10:30 AM
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11:30 AM
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Abelardo Morell's Artist Talk
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Contact: CVPA
- Description: Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. Morell received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his MFA from The Yale University School of Art. He has received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 1997 and from Lesley University in 2014. He was professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston from 1983 to 2010.
His publications include a photographic illustration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1998) by Dutton Children’s Books, A Camera in a Room (1995) by Smithsonian Press, A Book of Books (2002) and Camera Obscura (2004) by Bulfinch Press and Abelardo Morell (2005), published by Phaidon Press. The Universe Next Door (2013), published by The Art Institute of Chicago. Tent-Camera (2018), published by Nazraeli Press. Flowers for Lisa (2018), published by Abrams Books.
He has received a number of awards and rants, which include a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994 and an Infinity Award in Art from ICP in 2011. In November 2017, he received a Lucie Award for achievement in fine art. His work has been collected and shown in many galleries, institutions and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York, The Chicago Art Institute, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum and several other museums in the United States and abroad. A retrospective of his work organized jointly by the Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty in Los Angeles and The High Museum in Atlanta closed in May 2014 after a year of travel. Most recently, his work was included in the exhibition Ansel Adams in Our Time, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, General Public
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Drop-In Session: Resume & Cover Letter Review
- Location: Career Center (MacLean Campus Center 001)
- Contact: Career Center
- Description: Drop-In Sessions are meant for quick cover letter and resume reviews (15 minutes max). No registration or appointment necessary. Come to the Career Center and you will be helped on a first-come, first-serve basis.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Career Center, Student Affairs
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Virtual Financial Aid & Admissions 101
- Location: Online
- Contact: Admissions
- Description: Join us virtually from the comfort of your home and get the opportunity to chat with Financial Aid & Admissions 101 representatives for an info session. You will get the opportunity to learn more about your next steps and ways of qualifying for academic scholarships, financial aid and more!
- Link: https://apply.umassd.edu/register/?id=4f6c85c2-ba4e-43f5-8cf7-e8bc6594b5c9
- Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Marketing, Undergraduate Admissions
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Take the Campus Climate Survey
- Location: None
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The purpose of the survey is to ensure UMass Dartmouth is a welcoming place for all types of students and a place where they want to complete their education and to recruit and retain extraordinary faculty and staff. The survey will be active from March 15 - April 15 2022.
Survey time is typically 30 minutes or less and you will have a chance to win an Amazon gift card, UMD Dollars, or UMassD gear!
Campus Climate Study Committee Chairs:
David A. Gomes
508-999-8192
david.gomes.eeo@umassd.edu
Pauline Entin, PhD
508-999-8352
pentin@umassd.edu
- Link: https://www.umassd.edu/climate/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, _Charlton College of Business, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Labor Education Center, Student Affairs, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Center for Access & Success
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2022 Unity Fest
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Join us for the 2022 Unity Fest!
The Unity Fest is a celebration of culture, education, and social festivities that we hope will touch the spirit of the community and bring people together. Through this event we aim to promote diversity, intercultural awareness, and community building here at UMass Dartmouth. This year's Unity Fest will be held on Thursday, April 14, 2022 from 4:00pm-7:00pm in the Campus Center and Main Quad.
The Unity Fest is presented by the Frederick Douglass Unity House and cosponsored by several university offices and departments.
- Topical Areas: General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Undergraduate, Black History 4 Seasons, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Student Organizations, Conferences & Events, Student Affairs
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s).
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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Coping with Loss Support Group
- Location: Online
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Grief and loss are common experiences that many of us share. We can grieve over many different losses, including the loss of a loved one, the loss of social connections, the loss of a pet, the loss of a job, the loss of our sense of self, etc. Although these experiences are common to most of us, grief and loss can feel isolating, lonely, and overwhelming, particularly during the
COVID-19 pandemic when social connections are already limited. If you have experienced, or are currently experiencing, any type of grief and loss, you may benefit from joining the Coping with Loss Support Group. This group is open to all UMass Dartmouth students and is a space for students to support each other and discuss their feelings and experiences with grief and loss.
If interested in joining, please contact Nancy Harper, LICSW: nharper@umassd.edu or Meghan Silvia, MA: msilvia4@umassd.edu or contact that Counseling Center at (508) 999-8648 for more information.
When: Thursdays, 2pm-3pm
Starting February 17, 2022
Zoom Information: https://umassdhipaa.zoom.us/j/98754963259
Meeting ID: 987 5496 3259
Passcode: 099338
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate
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ECE MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Priscila de Paula Silva
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: Non-Equidistant Checkpointing and Quantitative Resilience Modeling
Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A
Abstract:
Software intensive systems rely on checkpointing to prevent loss of computation, by performing periodic backups. Non-equidistant checkpointing strategies have been proposed for specialized hardware and software applications as well as specific failure distributions. However, a general method to identify a non-equidistant checkpointing strategy for an arbitrary combination of application and failure distribution would be beneficial. This thesis proposes an approach to identify a near optimal non-equidistant checkpointing strategy with a genetic algorithm, which only requires knowledge of the failure distribution. Experiments suggest that the approach consistently outperforms the traditional strategy of equidistant checkpoints under (i) a range of total processing times and (ii) different values of distributions exhibiting increasing, constant, and decreasing failure rates. Although many systems and processes are amenable to reliability modeling, researchers have also demonstrated interest in bringing a system back to its original performance after a deterioration, which is known as resilience engineering: the ability of a system to respond, absorb, adapt, and recover from a disruptive event. Several metrics to quantify resilience have been proposed in the literature. However, fewer studies have proposed models to predict the metrics. Hence, this thesis presents two alternative approaches to model and predict performance and resilience metrics, including (i) bathtub-shaped hazard functions and (ii) mixture distributions with techniques from reliability engineering. Historical data on job loss during recessions in the United States are used to assess the predictive accuracy of these approaches. The results suggest that both approaches can produce accurate predictions for several of the data sets well, but that data sets that experience a sudden drop in performance or deviate from the assumption of a single decrease and subsequent increase cannot be fit to either class of proposed models, necessitating additional modeling efforts that can effectively characterize these more general scenarios.
Note: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella
Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth; Dr. Jiawei Yuan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science, UMASS Dartmouth
*For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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