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Sunday, October 4, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass is celebrated on campus at 7:00 pm on Sundays in the Blue and Gold Welcome Center. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	Signups for Men's Club Volleyball Team Location: Science and Engineering Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: We are going to start up a men's Club Volleyball Team. Looking for men who have high school volleyball experience to play against other college club teams. Contact Scott McGarty at smcgarty@umassd.edu . Would like to get players ASAP so we can get the forms in to start the team. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
Monday, October 5, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Workshop: Provost Innovative use of Technology Summer Grant: The In Bewtweens Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Provost Innovative use of Technology Summer Grant: The In Bewtweens (Elena Peteva, Fine Arts) Dr. Peteva will discuss my studio research project, which investigates the contemporary socio-political-cultural hybrid identity or the contemporary state of in betweenness. In this project, funded by the UMass Dartmouth Summer Research Fellowship Program, Dr. Peteva work with a multimedia process of drawing, animation and projection to create representations of the complex and continually changing identity of individuals, who are defined or belong to more than one country or culture, essentially being in a state of “in between”. Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	What Would Jesus Say: The Reclamation of Race, Religion, & Sexuality Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Join the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality, The Frederick Douglass Unity House, and The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life for: What Would Jesus Say: The Reclamation of Race, Religion, & Sexuality a presentation by Fleurette King. There many messages about the acceptance of sexual diversity in the Christian world. And, when race and ethnicity are involved, the exploration has added challenges. Through the personal journey as a Christian Black Queer person, the speaker will share strategies of reclamation. Not only will the audience understand how each of the social identities, race, religion and sexuality were developed, but also how the intersection created a healthy, happy authentic person. Fleurette King offers a wealth of experience and knowledge in diversity, inclusion and social justice in higher education. Flo has demonstrated innovation and achievement in diversity and inclusion policies, education & training since 1993. King continues to present best practices and award-winning models at regional and national conferences affiliated with the Amnesty International-Midwest, the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), the Creating Change Conference, White Privilege Conference (WPC), the True Colors Conference and the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE). King serves on the National Board for the Quist the App and beyond, an organization that hosts an APP on gender and sexuality history and facilitates learning. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	Signups for Men's Club Volleyball Team Location: Science and Engineering Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: We are going to start up a men's Club Volleyball Team. Looking for men who have high school volleyball experience to play against other college club teams. Contact Scott McGarty at smcgarty@umassd.edu . Would like to get players ASAP so we can get the forms in to start the team. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Dystopian Fiction Book Club kickoff meeting & book discussion Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Are you a science fiction fan? Love The Hunger Games series? Enjoy squeezing in some fun reading in between textbook chapters? The odds are in your favor that the Dystopian Fiction Book Club is for you! We'll be meeting again this academic year for monthly book discussions. Our first meeting will take place on Monday, October 5th at 2pm in Library 314. We'll be having a general kickoff, talking about the upcoming year and possible book choices. We'll also be discussing Ender's Game, the fantastic novel by Orson Scott Card. If you've seen the movie, you only know half the story, so you'll definitely want to read this one! Copies of Ender's Game will be available at the library's circulation desk, and can be checked out for 3 days at a time. We hope that will give everyone plenty of time to read it by October 5th. Even if you don't have a chance to finish Ender's Game, come to the meeting anyway! We want to hear your thoughts about what the book club should be like this year, and what you want to read! Questions? Contact Hilary Kraus ( hkraus@umassd.edu / 508-999-8681 ) Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library, English, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Technology for Team-Based Learning Location: Liberal Arts Building 208 Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: LARTS 208 has been designed to support teaching that is conducive to involving students, actively in their own learning. Participants will explore several active learning strategies and scenarios and utilize the technology in the room to engage students and promote active and collaborative learning. This workshop is limited to College of Arts & Science faculty. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Catholic Mass - Law School Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Mass is celebrated at the UMass Law School on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon in Room 116. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Narcan Opioid Overdose Prevention Training Location: MacLean Campus Center, Conference Room, Room 201 , UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: Free! Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: Opioid overdose is the leading cause of injury death in Massachusetts. In an overdose, opioids can slow breathing to the point of death. Naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan, blocks the opioids and restores normal breathing when sprayed into the nose of someone who has overdosed. It is safe, easy to administer, and has no potential for abuse. Participants in this training will learn how to recognize signs of an overdose, perform rescue breathing, + administer Narcan. This training, provided by Seven Hills, is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Light refreshments will be served. Link: http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/substance-abuse/naloxone-info.pdf Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Health Services, Livewell
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Zimbra Q&A Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Do you have questions about the Zimbra Collaboration Suite? Bring them to this workshop! An overview of Zimbra Calendar, Address Book and Mail is presented with ample time for individual questions. This session is all about you! 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, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? for credit? not for credit? paid? unpaid? Come to this session to learn how to get started. Preregister on CareerLink via the UMD portal or call the Career Development Center for more information at 508.999.8658 Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Overview of Data Management & the DMPTool Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128 Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Claire T. Carney Library is pleased to offer the Data Management Workshop Series for the fall semester, co-taught by librarians Zac Painter, Dawn Gross, and Liz Winiarz. The course will cover essential topics in data management and provide hands-on experience with some tools for working with your research data. The course is free and is open to all faculty, staff, and students of UMassD. A course outline is listed below; all courses will take place in LIB-128 from 3:00pm-4:00pm on Tuesdays in October. October 06: Overview of Data Management & the DMPTool October 13: Types and Formats of Data, Contextual Details & OpenRefine October 20: Data Storage and Security, Repositories and Archiving & Git/GitHub October 27: Legal and Ethical Issues, Data Sharing & the Open Movement (Open Data, Open Source, Open Access, Open Educational Resources) Further course information will be provided on the wiki, http://dataworkshop.umassd.wikispaces.net/Welcome You do not have to attend each course in the sequence, but you are requested to bring your own laptop for each session as we will be demonstrating the applications in a hands-on fashion, which requires installing the software ahead of time. If you need assistance installing the software, please either come a few minutes early to a session or contact one of the instructors before to get help. If you wish to attend please register through the calendar of events. Please contact Zac Painter (zpainter@umassd.edu, x8886) with questions. Link: http://dataworkshop.umassd.wikispaces.net/Welcome Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 10/7 »	Signups for Men's Club Volleyball Team Location: Science and Engineering Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: We are going to start up a men's Club Volleyball Team. Looking for men who have high school volleyball experience to play against other college club teams. Contact Scott McGarty at smcgarty@umassd.edu . Would like to get players ASAP so we can get the forms in to start the team. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? for credit? not for credit? paid? unpaid? Come to this session to learn how to get started. Preregister on CareerLink via the UMD portal or call the Career Development Center for more information at 508.999.8658. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
Today - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Work it "Out" Location: Frederick Douglass Unity House Contact: Career Development Center Description: An interactive discussion that will help LGBTQ students navigate a competitive workplace. A panel of LGBTQ alumni will share their experiences about coming outor not coming out at work. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Last day to file Pass/Fail Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Today is the last day to file Pass/Fail. Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/calendar/academic_calendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Weekly meeting for faculty and staff to practice mindfulness meditation. Contact: Aminda O'Hare 508.999.8761 aohare@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Performance Management - ESU Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Managing and evaluating employee performance is one of the more challenging roles of a supervisor. Whether you are new to it or in need of a refresher, in this session you will: • Understand how performance management works • Learn about best practices and the tools to make it work • Discuss effective goal-setting • Review the common pitfalls of performance evaluations • Learn how to give effective feedback Location: Lib 314 For questions, contact Sheila Whitaker X8045 Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Human Resources
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Flu Clinic Location: Law School , 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Flu shots will be administered to students, faculty and staff in the Law School lobby. The clinic will be run by Walgreen's Pharmacy and is sponsored by Student Health Services The $30 fee is covered by most health insurances. Bring your health insurance card. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to InDesign, Part 3 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The third workshop in the three part series covers working with color, including managing color using the Swatches palette, using the eyedropper tool, and colorizing black and white images. Styles are also covered, focusing on Paragraph and Object Styles. Previous InDesign experience, or Parts 1 and 2 of the Introduction class is required. 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, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Seminar - Dr. Casey Wade - Brandeis University Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 206 Cost: FREE Contact: Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Description: TITLE: Functionalization of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Heterogenous Catalysis Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Weekly 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 At-sea measurement of N2/Ar ratio for studying N-loss processes in the Mexican ODZ Mark Altabet Professor Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences SMAST UMass Dartmouth Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm SMAST I, Room 204 706 S. Rodney French Blvd New Bedford, MA Abstract: Microbial conversion of nitrate to N2 gas in oceanic O2 deficient zones (ODZ's) is among the most important routes for the loss of fixed nitrogen from the ocean. Detecting directly this biogenic production of N2 is difficult due to the large background of N2 of atmospheric origin, but is feasible through precise determination of the ratio of N2 to inert Ar gas. Typically this is done on samples returned to the lab for mass spectrometer analysis. Here we present the first results for at-sea measurement of N2/Ar on both discrete samples and from continuous pump profiles that have the advantages of greater certainty in the fidelity of the samples and very high vertical resolution. Note: Seminar will be simulcast to SMAST II, Room 325. You can view the seminar live by logging into https://echosystem.umassd.edu:8443/ess/portal/section/9f732442-8871-46c1-a9c1-d11db930bb39 Please note: the earliest you will be able to log in is 15 minutes before the regularly scheduled time. To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1st), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted title. For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu Topical Areas: University Community
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	What can climate change tell us about ecological processes on the Northeast US shelf? Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: for more information, contact cfox@umassd.edu Topical Areas: University Community
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Project Management Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Project Management is defined as the bringing together of people with the right skills to develop something different or new, using effective management processes: doing it on time, to the agreed budget and to meet expectations and, in doing so, inspiring the project team and producing something special for those who will benefit from the project. The goals of the session are to: • Understand how projects differ from ‘normal’ day-to-day work. • Describe the key components of projects. • Understand the skills needed for effective project management. • Identify the stages of the life of a project. • Practice creating a project timeline and tasks. Location: LIB 314 For questions, contact Sheila Whitaker X8045. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Human Resources
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	The Washington Center Information Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Spend an exciting semester in Washington, DC! Special guest Dayna Wade from The Washington Center will tell you about internship opportunities available for all majos. Financial aid is available for qualified students. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
« 9/10 - Today	Signups for Men's Club Volleyball Team Location: Science and Engineering Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: We are going to start up a men's Club Volleyball Team. Looking for men who have high school volleyball experience to play against other college club teams. Contact Scott McGarty at smcgarty@umassd.edu . Would like to get players ASAP so we can get the forms in to start the team. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	The Washington Center Information Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Spend an exciting semester in Washington, DC! Special guest Dayna Wade from The Washington Center will tell you about internship opportunities available for all majos. Financial aid is available for qualified students. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Applying to Graduate School Location: Woodland Commons Contact: Career Development Center Description: Join our panel of experts as they discuss how to: Identify/select the right program Present a competitive candidacy Connect with recommenders Finance graduate school Attendees will receive one entry into a drawing for a free test prep course from Kaplan. We thank Kaplan for their support of our graduate school programming. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	DFO SEMINAR - October 7 - Janet Nye - Stony Brook University Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: for more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu Topical Areas: University Community
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lightning Session: OFD Travel Award Presentations Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Marilyn Asselin and Maryellen Brisbois (College of Nursing): Enhancing Global Service Learning Experiences of Baccalaureate Students Through Critical Reflective Inquiry: A Qualitative Study Maureen Hall (STEM Education and Teacher Development): The Mind and Life Summer Research Institute trains scientists and scholars in the emerging field of Contemplative Science and Studies. Kathy Miraglia (Art Education): Inquiry into teacher training for MFA students teaching in Foundations Programs Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website. Topical Areas: Training, audience: Faculty, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Joint MNE-EAS Seminar: Dr. Hongyan Yuan, Mechanobiochemical Modeling of Micro-tissue Morphogenesis in Engineered Microenvironments Location: Textiles Building 101E Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Recent advances in cell biology and three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technologies have made it possible to create 3D complex functional human tissues/organs. The ability to engineer 3D tissues/organs on demand will have an unprecedented impact in the fields of regenerative medicine and drug discovery. In the United States, about 21 people die each day while waiting for transplants due to the shortage of donated organs. 3D bioprinting of tissues/organs holds great promise for overcoming the present health crisis. In 3D bioprinting, to recapitulate biological functions, the central challenge is to reproduce the complex micro-architecture and micro-morphology of the tissue. Therefore, a thorough understanding of how micro-tissues form in engineered microenvironments is of great importance for the 3D bioprinting approach to succeed. Tissue/organ morphogenesis is a complex process occurring at multiple scales. Focusing on the whole organ scale, considerable research has been devoted to elucidation of the physical principles underlying the formation of the overall morphologies of organs. In these whole-organ level studies, information at the individual cell level has been homogenized or ignored. At the other extreme of the length scale, the genetic and molecular causes that dictate the tissue/organ formation have been intensively studied. However, at the mesoscopic scale of individual cells, our current understanding of the dynamic processes of micro-tissue morphogenesis is very limited. Mechanobiochemical principles underlying the micro-tissue morphogenesis can help to bridge the gap between the molecular biology and the macroscale tissue/organ formation. In the present work, a finite element-based computational model to describe and predict the dynamic process of micro-tissue morphogenesis in engineered microenvironments is being developed. We hypothesize that a cell spatially integrates local mechanosensing over the whole-cell scale using continuum mechanics principles. We formulated a mathematical model to describe cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesions, the cell protrusion/retraction, and cytoskeleton contraction in the dynamic process of cell/microtissue morphogenesis. The finite element method was used to numerically solve the evolution equations. Three case studies: single-cell free migration, shape-constrained cell spreading, and cell-pair microtissue formation, were simulated and compared with experimental observations to guide the tuning of the model parameter values. This phenomenological model can help understand how cells, as complex systems, integrate numerous sub-cellular and molecular-scale functions at the whole-cell scale and how distinct cell/microtissue morphologies emerge. Topical Areas: University Community, Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics
Thursday, October 8, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	River Herring Bycatch Characterization and Avoidance in the Atlantic Herring and Mackerel Fishery Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography River Herring Bycatch Characterization and Avoidance in the Atlantic Herring and Mackerel Fishery David Bethoney UMASS Dartmouth/SMAST Department of Fisheries Oceanography Wednesday, October 14 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm SMAST II, Room 157 200 Mill Road, Fairhaven, MA Note: Seminar will be simulcast to SMAST I, Room 204. You can view the seminar live by clicking here: "live event" . Please note: the earliest you will be able to log in is 15 minutes before the regularly scheduled time. To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted title. Topical Areas: University Community
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Instructional Media Repositories Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: Join us to learn about the various media repositories available to faculty at UMass Dartmouth. These repositories contain a wealth of information that faculty, from various disciplines, can use to supplement their instruction. Examine what services like Atomic Learning, NBC Learn, and the UMass Dartmouth Media gallery can offer you! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Introduction to Access Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Microsoft Access. Participants create a database, define fields, work with tables and create basic layouts. Data entry, find and sort features are covered in detail. Importing and exporting data, and creation of input masks are also introduced. No previous Access experience is needed. 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, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
9:00 AM - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	How to Work a Job & Internship Fair Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Learn what you can do to make your job & internship fair experience as productive as possible: appropriate job fair attire ¢your "60 second commercial" - what to say when you first meet an employer research you can do in advance and how to use the info effectively questions you should and should not ask employers post-job fair follow-up and more Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
Friday, October 9, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Gandhi Lecture Series 2015 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Center for Indic Studies Description: Cultivating a lived practice of nonviolence 'Be the change you wish to see in the world' an often used quote by Mahatma Gandhi leads us to the conclusion that true social transformation is rooted and entwined in individual transformation. What are the underlying principles that connect individual transformation and cultural transformation? What might these principles look like expressed in our daily lives? What can we do individually and collectively to create the world we choose to live in? Kit Miller has served as the director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence since 2009. Her prior position was as director/celebrator of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, California. Kit has been learning about and organizing for nonviolence for the past 22 years in a variety of capacities. She draws on Gandhian and Kingian nonviolence, as well as nonviolent communication, the Work that reconnects and permaculture for direction and daily practice in her life and work. In addition to leading the Institute and teaching nonviolence, she works on community projects related to restorative justice, sustainability and race as applications of nonviolence in Rochester. Kit co-leads nonviolence retreats each year in various sites around the world. She has 3 children and is grateful to have been happily married for 24 years to her husband David. Topical Areas: University Community, Indic Studies, Lectures and Seminars
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	CANCELLED: Getting Started in myCourses Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 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. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Mentoring Research Students in Science and Engineering Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Feeling overwhelmed by supervising research students for the first time? Are you frustrated that the advising strategies that your advisor used are not effective here at UMass Dartmouth? Would you like to learn about new strategies for mentoring your graduate research assistants? The Office of Faculty Development is running a discussion for early career science and engineering faculty starting out as research mentors. The discussion group will be led by John Buck (ECE) and Tracie Ferreira (BNG). The group will meet on the second Friday and fourth Tuesday of each month to discuss readings on research mentoring strategies and to share experiences and challenges. Lunch will be provided. Contact Prof. John Buck (jbuck@umassd.edu, x9237) with questions or to sign up. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Marco F. Duarte, UMass Amherst Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN COMPRESSIVE SENSING Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A Abstract: Compressive sensing (CS) implements simultaneous sensing and compression of sparse and compressible signals based on randomized dimensionality reduction. To recover a signal from its compressive measurements, standard CS algorithms seek the sparsest signal representation in some discrete basis or dictionary that agrees with the measurements. Many applications feature signals that can be represented using a small number of continuous-valued parameters. Such problems have initially been addressed in CS through the design of parametric dictionaries that collect a set of signal observations corresponding to a discretized set of parameter values. These approaches, however, suffer either from resolution limitations due to discretization or from poor performance due to the high coherence of the dictionary, the mismatch between the dictionary and the signal (which may not necessarily be sparse), or both. This talk will introduce several techniques for compressive parameter estimation (CPE) that aim to alleviate the aforementioned issues, using the time delay estimation and frequency estimation problems common in radar imaging as running examples. First, we use manifold models to characterize the map from parameter space to signal space and employ manifold-based interpolation for parametric dictionaries. In a second approach, we introduce the concept of earth mover's distance for parametric signal representations to directly measure the performance of parameter estimation and leverage it using specially tailored algorithms. Finally, we leverage the connection between approximate message passing methods and denoising algorithms for sparse signals to design compressive parameter estimation approaches based on statistical parameter estimation algorithms. The use of these algorithms allow us to forego the need for a discretized model. We will review the benefits and shortcomings of these proposed alternatives. Portions of this work are joint with Hamid Dadkhahi, Karsten Fyhn, Dian Mo, and Shermin Hamzehei. Biography: Marco F. Duarte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering (with distinction) and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University in 2009. He was an NSF/IPAM Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University from 2009 to 2010, and in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University from 2010 to 2011. His research interests include machine learning, compressed sensing, and sensor networks. Prof. Duarte received the Presidential Fellowship and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellowship in 2004 and the Hershel M. Rich Invention Award in 2007, all from Rice University. He coauthored (with C. Hegde and V. Cevher) the Best Student Paper at the 2009 International Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS). The Seminars is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. John Buck at 508.999.9237, or via email at jbuck@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Saturday, October 10, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts

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