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Sunday, October 17, 2021
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Spaces of Rest Conversations, Spruce Classroom 130 Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Spaces of Rest will be weekly collaborative practices of resting and reflecting. These spaces will be for students to come together to share space through engaging with meditation, media, and conversations. Conversations will be once a week and it will be as space for having open conversation with no predetermined topic. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. For more info - https://spacesofrest.weebly.com or email Clareese Hill, Artist in Residence at chill5@umasss.edu Clareese Hill is the 2021-2022 Umass Dartmouth CVPA Artist in Residence. She is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word "identity" through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. She has performed lectures at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Sussex, CUNY Graduate Center, The Chicago Art Department, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She has exhibited her research internationally in Chicago, New York, California, London, France, and cyberspace. Clareese was a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Clareese has published academic essays in THEOREM Journal, Architecture and Culture Journal, and has an upcoming article in Antennae, The Journal of Nature and Culture. Clareese holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Student Affairs
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
Monday, October 18, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Walk-in Study Abroad Advising Location: International Programs Office LARTS 016 Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) between Noon and 1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Rethinking the Flipped Classroom Location: > See description for location Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Office of Faculty Development: Claire T. Carney Library Room 213 Jacqueline Einstein, Charlton College of Business Caroline Gelmi, College of Arts and Sciences Laura Franz, College of Visual and Performing Arts Sarah Cosgrove, College of Arts and Sciences Kiley Medeiros, College of Nursing and Health Sciences Moderator: Jay Zysk, Director, Office of Faculty Development The experience of teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic invites renewed attention to flipping the classroom, that is, a pedagogical strategy whereby students engage with readings, recorded lectures, and other instructional materials outside of class in order to make more in-class time available for active learning, group discussion, and problem solving. In this workshop, instructors will share their experiences with flipping the classroom and offer some insight, both individual and collective, to how they have innovated flipped classrooms amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics will include the relationship between the flipped classroom and blended learning; engaging students in a flipped classroom; creation and assessment of assignments and activities; striking a balance between out-of-class and in-class activity; and addressing challenges to designing and teaching a flipped class. This workshop is open to all faculty and graduate student instructors. To register, please email Ellen Mandly at emandly@umassd.edu. In-person participation will be limited to the first 10 registrants; virtual participation is available to anyone. Please make your preference known when registering. Lunch is provided for in-person participants. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Faculty Development
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	The Clothesline Project Location: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: The Clothesline Project is a visual display of violence statistics that often go ignored. Each shirt is made by a survivor of violence or by someone who has lost a loved one to violence. We offer this event in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the YWCA of Southeastern MA Week Without Violence Topical Areas: Faculty, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Exhibits, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Affairs
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
1:30 PM	Visiting Artist Lecture: Stephanie Pierce Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: ABOUT STEPHANIE PIERCE Stephanie Pierce's paintings explore relationships between light, time, and perception as it is reconsidered over time. Stephanie's work is represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NYC. She has exhibited at The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; The Staten Island Museum, NY; and Asheville Art Museum, NC. Stephanie received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2014, and a grant from the Peter S. Reid Foundation in 2018. Her work has been published in the New Yorker Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and is included in the collections of William Dreyfus, and Joan and Roger Sonnabend. Stephanie is an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Artist Talk: Masks required indoors. Limited seating for in-person audience. This event is sponsored by the Painting and Printmaking Club at the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For questions or additional information contact Prof. Elena Peteva at epeteva@umassd.edu Link: https://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/news/visiting-artist-stephanie-pierce.html Topical Areas: Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	GLOBALLY CONNECTED: What is "Citizen Science" Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Please join Dr. R. Venkatesan on Monday, October 18, 2021 at 7 PM in the Spruce Hall Classroom 128 Dr. R. Venkatesan is the visiting Fulbright Scholar at UMASSD. Please join Dr. Venkatesan to discuss how climate, politics, sustainable practices and global communication directly affect not only the health of the oceans of the world but each person on the planet. Do you have an interest in Public Policy, Engineering for our future, Design, Computer Sciences, International Communications and Sustainable Practices? This event is for you! Dr. Venkatesan earned his M. Tech Degree from Karnataka Regional Engineering College and Ph.D. degree from IISC, Bangalore then continued his academic pursuits to complete courses in Marine Environmental Pollution and Management and International Business Management from IIFT New Delhi. He is an adjunct professor in IIT Kharagpur IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Madras. He led a team to Arctic to successfully install India's first ever Arctic Moored observatory and received National Geoscience Award from Honorable President of India. He is responsible for planning and coordination and implementation of ocean observation systems activities of NIOT. He has successfully established tsunami buoy network for tsunami early warning in Indian waters. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Space will be limited to 60. For questions contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM	MONDAY NIGHT CLASS - Meditation Discussion Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Are you a meditator or curious about meditation? Have questions or experiences to discuss? Want to hear about other people's experiences? MONDAY NIGHT CLASS may be for you! ALL FORMS of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and contemplative practice can provide serious health benefits. Regular practice is needed but can be difficult without a support group. MONDAY NIGHT CLASS is a WEEKLY ONLINE SALON-style meeting for discussion of contemplative practice. It's free and open to all. The "SALON" concept refers to people gathering for lively informal conversation, often on literary and philosophical topics. BEGINNING September 27, we'll meet ONLINE every Monday, from 7:00-8:30pm For info contact Jerry Solfvin, PhD, at JSOLFVIN@UMASSD.EDU FREE & OPEN TO ALL. Register in advance at: https://umassd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpc-muqTsiHdHYkvFounmHQy86Xtxpsykk Link: https://www.umassd.edu/programs/indic-studies/ Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Aging and Health Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indic Studies, Judaic Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Health Services, Center for Indic Studies, Center for Jewish Culture, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Student Affairs
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Spring Registration Prep for the COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: MNE Majors Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: First and Second Year Students! Are you prepared for Selecting courses for Spring Semester 2022? MNE majors are invited to meet with an academic advisor from your college for a group advising session designed to help you be ready for registration and to learn how to use COIN effectively. WHERE? Spruce Hall classroom 128 For Questions please contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu, at 508-999-9296, or contact your academic advising office in your college. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Advising, College of Engineering, Student Affairs
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Spring Registration Prep for the COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: BNG Majors Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: First and Second Year Students! Are you prepared for Selecting courses for Spring Semester 2022? BNG majors are invited to meet with an academic advisor from your college for a group advising session designed to help you be ready for registration and to learn how to use COIN effectively. WHERE? Spruce Hall classroom 128 For Questions please contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu, at 508-999-9296, or contact your academic advising office in your college. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Advising, College of Engineering, Student Affairs
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	The Clothesline Project Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Join the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality and the YWCA for the Clothesline Project: a visual display of violence statistics that often go ignored. Each shirt is made by a survivor of violence or by someone who has lost a love one to violence. We offer this event in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Clothesline Project will be on display on the second floor of the Campus Center from 11am - 3pm. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Business, Engineering, and Technologies Career Fair Location: Woodland Commons Contact: Career Development Center Description: Come network and speak with more than 50 organizations looking to hire students for their engineering, business, and technology opportunities. You can also learn more about internship and full-time employment opportunities from employers who are hiring. Dress professionally and come prepared with plenty of resumes. Link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs/25966/student_preview Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center, University Marketing
5:30 PM	Catholic Mass Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Religious and Spiritual Life Description: Campus Center Second Floor Reflection Room Every Tuesday Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Student Affairs
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Spring Registration Prep for the College of Engineering: CEN Majors Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: First and Second Year Students! Are you prepared for Selecting courses for Spring Semester 2022? CEN majors are invited to meet with an academic advisor from your college for a group advising session designed to help you be ready for registration and to learn how to use COIN effectively. WHERE? Spruce Hall classroom 130 For Questions please contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu, at 508-999-9296, or contact your academic advising office in your college. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Advising, College of Engineering, Student Affairs
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Spring Registration Prep for the COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: CIS/DSC Majors Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: First and Second Year Students! Are you prepared for Selecting courses for Spring Semester 2022? CIS/DSC majors are invited to meet with an academic advisor from your college for a group advising session designed to help you be ready for registration and to learn how to use COIN effectively. WHERE? Spruce Hall classroom 128 For Questions please contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu, at 508-999-9296, or contact your academic advising office in your college. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Advising, College of Engineering, Student Affairs
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	**RESCHEDULED! Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Jared Correia Location: > See description for location Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Please NOTE: The original date of 9/14/21 has been cancelled and is rescheduled to 10/19/21! Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Jared Correia DATE: October 19, 2021 TIME: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. LOCATION: Join Zoom Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/93030267006?pwd=V1VHYURwcTlwRGlFYW10ZVo4MTgvUT09 Please contact the MS Thesis Advisor for Meeting ID and Passcode. TOPIC: CHARACTERIZATION OF FLOCKED ENERGY ABSORBING MATERIALS IN SPORT HELMET APPLICATIONS ABSTRACT: A comprehensive experimental impact characterization study of novel impact energy absorbing (IEA) materials for sport helmet pads is conducted. These novel pad materials are fabricated using University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Flocked Energy Absorbing Material (FEAM). FEAM based IEA panels are prepared by flocking 1 to 3 mm long, 6 to 60 denier textile fibers onto a planar fabric sheet. Flocked fibers are oriented upright to the direction of compressional impact such that energy absorption occurs by the bending, buckling and inter-fiber friction of the upright flock fibers during deformation by impact loading. FEAM pad configurations were tested directly via a double lap shear jig and guided weight drop tower. IEA results of a parametric study are thus reported where the fiber material properties such as flock fiber length, diameter (denier) and flock density (number of flock fibers per area) are presented, discussed, and compared with common vinyl nitrile (VN) foam. Padding material based on FEAM configurations showed remarkable improvement when compared directly to VN foam under pre-compression and dynamic shear loading, with a 135% increase in shear strain energy density for the high impact velocity loading condition, and a 49% increase for low impact velocity condition. The IEA performance of the padding materials, in terms of both linear and angular accelerations, under impact loads were then evaluated using a linear impactor and instrumented NOCSAE head. Impacts from various directions simulate real-time helmet-to-helmet collisions while a high-speed camera is used to record and track neck flexion angles to better understand head kinematics of struck players. The best FEAM padding showed a decrease in resultant angular acceleration of the struck player head of 12.9% , 18% , 9.9%, 14.4%, 17.2%, and 14.4% when struck at 6 m/s at the front, front boss, rear, rear boss cg, rear boss nc, and side locations respectively as compared with VN foam padding. ADVISOR: Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Graduate Program Director, UMassD COMMITTEE MEMBERS: -Dr. Jun Li, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMassD -Dr. Caiwei ShenYong Kim, Assistant Chancellor Professor of BioeMechanical Engineering, UMassD Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra (vchalivendra@umassd.edu, 508-910-6572). Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Spring Registration Prep for the College of Engineering: EGR Majors Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: First and Second Year Students! Are you prepared for Selecting courses for Spring Semester 2022? ELE/CPE majors are invited to meet with an academic advisor from your college for a group advising session designed to help you be ready for registration and to learn how to use COIN effectively. WHERE? Spruce Hall classroom 128 For Questions please contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu, at 508-999-9296, or contact your academic advising office in your college. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Advising, College of Engineering, Student Affairs
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Walk-in Study Abroad Advising Location: International Programs Office LARTS 016 Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) between Noon and 1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Pronouns 101 Location: > See description for location Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: In celebration of International Pronouns Day on October 20, join the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality for Pronouns 101 from 3-4:30pm in LARTS 215. This panel will give you a chance to hear from students, learn about classroom best practices, and discuss the importance of gender neutral language. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn and discuss. All attendees will have a chance to make a pronoun pin! This event is brought to you by the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality, Office of Faculty Development, the Writing and Multiliteracy Center Gender & Women's Studies Department. We can't wait to see you next week! Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Faculty Development
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Screening of "Contract", a documentary by Guenny Pires Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Description: The UMASSD Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the BCC Lusocenter are pleased to announce the presentation of the docudrama film, Contract, on Wednesday 20 October 2021 at 5:30 PM. The screening will take place at the Charlton College of Business Auditorium (room 149). This will be followed by a questions and answer session with the Director, Guenny K. Pires. Doors will open at 5:15 PM. Guests should use Parking Lots 13 and 14. Face masks are required indoors. Contract tells the story of Cape Verdean indentured servants who leave their homes in Cape Verde and travel to Sao Tome and Principe under a work contract that will never be fulfilled. It is a personal story that documents the filmmaker's journey to reunite his uncle with his family. After leaving Cape Verde 44 years earlier with the hope of a better life, the uncle's reality is the same as so many others like him. He is trapped in a contract that pays only 10 cents a day and a $10 dollar life retirement from the Sao Tome and Principe government. Guenny K. Pires was born and raised in Cape Verde and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He earned both a BA and an MA in Visual Arts from Portugal. He is a filmmaker, a cinematographer, a professor of visual arts, and a co-founder of Txan Film Productions & Visual Arts, Incorporated. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/portuguese-studies-center/events/contract-documentary-screening-with-filmmaker-guenny-k-pires.html Topical Areas: General Public
9:00 AM - 11/17 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Me, Myself, and I \| Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 12PM \| FDUH and Counseling Center Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This one-hour wellness conversation will begin with exploring the specific origins, needs and mental health concerns amongst diverse populations. We will discuss the cultural differences; language barriers, and first-generation gaps students face while seeking mental support. We will look at ways mental health shows up unexpectedly in our daily lives. We invite you to an open and honest dialogue about your experiences dealing with trauma, microaggressions, racism and the impact these have had on you. For more information, please contact FDUH at (508)999-9220. Topical Areas: Students, Students, Undergraduate, Black Studies, Black History 4 Seasons, Counseling Center, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Student Organizations, Conferences & Events, Student Affairs
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Tour My Course: The Syllabus Edition Location: > See description for location Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Facilitators: Alexis Teagarden, Jenny Howe, and Jackie O'Dell, First Year English Program, Department of English and Communication Office of Faculty Development: Claire T. Carney Library Room 213 A welcome banner, a class constitution, a user manual, syllabi serve many purposes. But only if students understand them. Accessibility studies has shown that some students can't process syllabi given design issues. And Janice Redish reminds us, when it comes technical texts, readers in general just don't read. Where does that leave our classic classroom genre? Both accessibility studies and technical communication provide solutions to reading roadblocks, and in this Tour My Course session, three First-Year English instructors will demonstrate how they incorporate accommodation strategies into their syllabi. From a minimalist approach to a technicolor design, the three syllabi show how we can meet accessibility needs regardless our teaching style. This workshop is open to all faculty and graduate student instructors. The workshop will be conducted in a hybrid modality. To register, please contact Ellen Mandly at emandly@umassd.edu. Please indicate your preference for in-person or virtual participation when registering. Individually wrapped lunches, which can be enjoyed during the workshop or taken "to go," will be provided for in-person participants. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Faculty Development
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Financial Aid Help Labs: Library 128 Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join the Financial Aid Services Street Team for FA Help Labs on Wednesdays from 3 to 4 p.m. and Fridays from 3 to 4 p.m. in Library 128 for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid. Contact Mark Yanni myanni@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Pumpkin Fest Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Join us at The Grove for Pumpkin Fest! Enjoy a pumpkin themed menu! Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Students, Law
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Commuter Pit Stop Location: Campus Center TV Pit Contact: Office of Student Affairs Description: Stop by the TV Pit in the Campus Center for free food and tumbler for all commuters. Sponsored by New Student & Family Programs/Commuter office & the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life. Topical Areas: Students, Student Affairs
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Seminar - Ilana Berman-Frank 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 "Iron and Phosphorus Deprivation Induce Sociality in The marine Bloom-forming Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium" Ilana Berman-Frank Charney School of Marine Sciences University of Haifa, Israel Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm SMAST East Rooms 101/102 And Via Zoom Abstract Trichodesmium spp. are dinitrogen-fixing (diazotrophic) cyanobacteria that exist as single filaments (trichomes) and as macroscopic colonies formed by aggregating trichomes. We demonstrate that limited availability of dissolved phosphorus (P) or iron (Fe) stimulated trichome mobility and induced colony formation in cultures and natural populations. The colonies formed appear to provide enhanced metabolic rates compared to single trichomes under depleted nutrients and were also characterized by stronger attachment forces between the trichomes. We postulate that also, in the nutrient-limited surface oceans, P and Fe availability prompt colony formation as well as bloom fate of Trichodesmium and primarily control the abundance and distribution of its different morphologies. ******************************************************************************** Join Zoom Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270?pwd=L2Z1bDZESTFCKzJYZWduYVhWenYvZz09 Meeting ID: 974 4006 9270 Passcode: 428029 One tap mobile +13017158592,,97440069270#,,,,428029# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,97440069270#,,,,428029# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 974 4006 9270 Passcode: 428029 Find your local number: https://umassd.zoom.us/u/adtxYu9NMO Join by SIP 97440069270@zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 149.137.68.253 (Mexico) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 974 4006 9270 Passcode: 428029 ******************************************************************************** For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Department of Fisheries Oceanography Seminar Announcement - Steve Cadrin Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology Department of Fisheries Oceanography Seminar Announcement "Cod Damned? What's Up with New England Groundfish?" Steve Cadrin Department of Fisheries Oceanography School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm SMAST East, Rooms 101/102 Also Via Zoom Abstract After decades of intense fishing from foreign and domestic fleets, fishery restrictions were designed to rebuild overfished groundfish stocksin the mid-1990s. Rebuilding plans were successful for several groundfish stocks, but others remain near record-low abundance even with little targeted fishing or bycatch. The mixed stock fishery is constrained by low catch limits of rebuilding ‘choke stocks’ for harvesting healthy stocks. The cause of slow rebuilding is uncertain but appears to involve a combination of decreased productivity, under-reported catch, and mis-specified stock assessments that led to continued overfishing, despite precautionary harvest controls. Recent management strategy evaluations conditioned on Gulf of Maine cod and Georges Bank haddock tested the performance of the current groundfish management procedure and alternatives in the context of biased catch and changes in productivity (i.e., natural mortality rates or recruitment). Results suggest that precautionary management procedures perform relatively well if stock assessment are well specified, even with moderate under-reporting of catch. However, simulation testing showed that rebuilding objectives cannot be achieved when management is informed by mis-specified stock assessment models. The next step in evaluating cod fisheries is to investigate performance of the current management procedure as well as spatial alternatives (including revised management unit boundaries or assessment of mixed populations) for conserving and rebuilding spatially-complex cod populations,. These evaluations are intended help to inform the best scientific information available for managing cod fisheries for the 2023 research track stock assessment. ******************************************************************************** Zoom Link https://umassd.zoom.us/j/93758230260?pwd=OHJ5UDloQkZZaCtXcTlBNlR6Qm0rQT09 Meeting ID: 937 5823 0260 Passcode: 426839 One tap mobile +13017158592,,93758230260#,,,,426839# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,93758230260#,,,,426839# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Find your local number: https://umassd.zoom.us/u/acosTPRs4V ******************************************************************************** For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
Thursday, October 21, 2021
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Spring Registration Prep for First & Second Year Arts and Sciences Majors Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: First and Second Year Students! Are you prepared for Selecting courses for Spring Semester 2022? Arts & Sciences majors are invited to meet with an academic advisor from your college for a group advising session designed to help you be ready for registration and to learn how to use COIN effectively. WHERE? Spruce Hall classroom 128 OR Zoom at: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/95492847524?pwd=bk1Ycm9MSURKYmQvVVZ1Z2EveHFKdz09 For Questions please contact Michelle Black at mblack2@umassd.edu, at 508-999-9296, or contact your academic advising office in your college. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Advising, College of Arts and Sciences, Student Affairs
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Walk-in Study Abroad Advising Location: International Programs Office LARTS 016 Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Drop by the IPO (LARTS 016) between Noon and 1:30. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Beyond Resilience: From Surviving To Thriving Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Virtual Panel Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Join us for a panel discussion centering around healing and renewing our collective commitment to addressing racism, domestic and systemic violence, as well as, the root causes of trauma that feed into the cycle of harm. Register at: bit.ly/WWVNB2021 Questions? Please contact Raelyn at rmonteiro@ywcasema.org or 508-999-3255 Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Aging and Health Studies, Pre-Law, Pre-Med/Pre-Health Professions, Psychology, Public Policy, Women and Gender Studies, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Counseling Center
« 10/20 - 11/17 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Getting Started with Qualtrics Location: > See description for location Cost: Free! Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their own surveys. Students may also use Qualtrics under the direction of a Faculty or Staff member. This workshop covers the authoring and administration of surveys, as well as data collection. Question types are covered in detail. No previous survey experience is necessary. Note that access to Qualtrics is managed by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Please contact Jonathan Bonilla at JBonilla1@umassd.edu at least three business days prior to this workshop to request access. Students must have a Faculty or Staff advisor request access on their behalf. This workshop will take place via Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to registrants via email on the morning of the event. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM	ECE Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Defense by: Maskura Nafreen Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Reliability and Performance Modeling of Software Applications and Processes Zoom Teleconference: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/94835216696 Please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu for Meeting ID and Passcode. Abstract: Modern society is highly dependent on software-enabled systems, including mission and life-critical systems. High profile failures of these systems damage trust in the maturity of the underlying technology and subsequently create concerns related to system safety and security. In the absence of objective methods to model the reliability of software within complex systems, decision-makers will struggle to deliver dependable and trustworthy systems. In past decades, researchers have proposed a variety of software reliability growth models (SRGM) to assess the reliability of software during phases of test and operation which often possess complicated parametric forms but disregard predictive accuracy. Moreover, most SRGM are restricted to defect discovery data, yet removal of these defects is the practical concern of software engineers. Traditional SRGM have also dedicated limited consideration of factors associated with software testing like the severity of defects. Prior efforts to model defect resolution are primarily based on systems of differential equations and queueing theory. However, these past modeling efforts offer little concrete guidance that software practitioners can relate to or use when attempting to improve their processes. To overcome the limitations noted above, this dissertation presents several modeling contributions including: (i) a framework composed of several SRGM possessing a bathtub-shaped fault detection rate, stable and efficient model fitting algorithms, and assessment with a combination of predictive and information-theoretic measures to justify their increased complexity, (ii) connecting a NASA defect-tracking database to novel models of defect discovery and resolution, including differential equation-based, distributional, and Markovian models, and (iii) a defect resolution prediction model that utilizes a SRGM incorporating covariates through the discrete Cox proportional hazard model. Note: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to join the zoom teleconference. All interested parties are invited to join. Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth; Dr. Gokhan Kul, Department of Computer & Information Science, UMASS Dartmouth; Dr. Ying Shi, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Alumni, General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Friday, October 22, 2021
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM	UMass Brut Free Public Events - October 22, 2021 Location: > See description for location Cost: FREE Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The UMass Brut collaboration between UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst is sponsoring several free public events on October 22, beginning at 5:30 p.m. On the path between the UMD Library and the College of Visual and Performing Arts, artist Daniel DeLuca will install sculptural, participatory structures (frames with chalkboards) and will invite pedestrians and UMass Brut symposium participants to respond to their encounter with UMD's theatrical 'brutalist' architecture (designed by renowned architect Paul Rudolph). At 6:00 P.M. inside CVPA's voluminous atrium, and in conjunction with the closing of the Norman Ives exhibition, enjoy Kelvin Dickinson's presentation, "A Discovery of Opposites: Paul Rudolph & the Poetics of Brutalism at UMass Dartmouth." Mr. Dickinson, President of the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, will pause during his lecture so CVPA painting instructor David Burr can present a participatory artwork. In it, he will invite listeners to experience Rudolph's cavernous and cave-like spaces by following a 3,000-foot rope 'drawing' that winds through the CVPA. At the conclusion of the presentation (or just after sunset), step outside for a video projection event celebrating the UMD campus. The series of videos, a montage of colorful images accompanied by sound, will be projected on the Maclean Campus Center and CVPA exterior walls. The videos will highlight the campus history, architecture, and expansion, and the University's connection to local communities. The work is produced by the students in Professor Mark Millstein's Video Projection Mapping class in the Art and Design Department of the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This evening event is part of a two-day collaborative symposium titled, "Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present and Future" sponsored by UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst. Take a moment to register for this unique symposium that brings together a team of nationally renowned scholars interested in concrete Brutalist architecture and preservation of the architectural icons. Free to the UMass community and enrolled college students. Be sure to register for the Symposium this Friday, October 22 (8 am-8:30 pm) at UMass Dartmouth and Saturday, October 23 (8 am-5:30 pm) at UMass Amherst. Space is limited, but we're holding a seat for you. for more details, visit UMassBrut at https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut/umassbrut_symposium. Link: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut/umassbrut_symposium Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, College of Visual and Performing Arts
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Virtual Peer Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Would you like to talk to a student about what it's like to study abroad? What were classes like? What was the best and most challenging aspect? Would you do it again? Stop by our Zoom room with your questions! Zoom Link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/94877677116?pwd=RklyZzNuMld4eEJZNkRPdzNHdnkzdz09 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
6:30 PM - 11:30 PM	Natural Shocks: A Play by Laura Gunderson Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium) , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: $5 for non students Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Natural Shocks is a suspenseful one woman show starring Kelly Robertson about a woman trapped in her basement waiting out an approaching tornado... or is it a tornado? Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Theater, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 20 Cent Fiction, Theater Company, Student Affairs
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Spaces of Rest Media Nights Spruce 130 Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Media Night Spruce 130 or 128, Friday 8pm-10pm Spaces of Rest will be weekly collaborative practices of resting and reflecting. These spaces will be for students to come together to share space through engaging with meditation, media, and conversations. The media nights will be moments of reading, watching, or listening to sci-fi and Afrofuturist content. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. For more info - https://spacesofrest.weebly.com or email Clareese Hill, Artist in Residence at chill5@umasss.edu Clareese Hill is the 2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth CVPA Artist in Residence. She is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word "identity" through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. She has performed lectures at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Sussex, CUNY Graduate Center, The Chicago Art Department, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She has exhibited her research internationally in Chicago, New York, California, London, France, and cyberspace. Clareese was a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Clareese has published academic essays in THEOREM Journal, Architecture and Culture Journal, and has an upcoming article in Antennae, The Journal of Nature and Culture. Clareese holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Topical Areas: Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Student Affairs
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
« 9/22 - 10/23 »	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Virtual Study Abroad Advising Location: > See description for location Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Join us on zoom to discuss opportunities. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Zoom link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/98493726095?pwd=QUEySVNkTVdnS0hUNm94Q1NqQ0FkQT09 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
All Day	Brutalism & the Public University Past, Present and Future Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 122, Grand Reading Room Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Modern twentieth century architecture has always inspired a variety of passionate responses, especially the "brutalist" buildings at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Amherst. To explore their architectural heritage and its preservation, the two campuses will hold a two-day symposium, Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present, and Future on October 22 and 23. The symposium, part of the UMassBrut collaborative, will provide a unique platform that brings together a team of distinguished scholars, industry professionals, artists, and passionate citizens with an interest in the preservation of mid to late twentieth-century architecture. The symposium's goal is to create a dynamic, cross-disciplinary conversation among all participants on how to provide stewardship of these buildings for the future. Each day will feature professional workshops, scholarly lectures, guided campus tours, public art exhibitions, and creative activities (including video projections on the architectural facades). Participants will discuss Brutalist architecture (history and design) and explore the issues of preservation and adaption unique to these modernist concrete structures. Both campuses contain extensive examples of mid-century Brutalist concrete architecture by world-renowned modernist architects including Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, Kevin Roche, Hugh Stubbins, and Edward Durell Stone. These landmark structures will be accessible in Dartmouth on Friday, October 22, and in Amherst on Saturday, October 23. Keynote presentations on both days will include Chandler McCoy and Ana Paula Arato Gonçalves of the Getty Conservation Institute's Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. Speakers include faculty from UMass and visiting faculty from Brown, Harvard, Roger Williams, Rutgers, Columbia and the University of South Carolina. Other speakers include distinguished professionals from the fields of architecture, historic preservation, engineering, construction, lighting, graphic, interior design, and professional staff from UMass and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance. The UMassBrut group, organizers of the symposium, consists of UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst faculty, staff, students, and interested parties dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and reimagining mid-century Brutalist public architecture. The group will continue to organize events and engage others in the UMass system and the public at large. Contact: Allison Cywin at acywin@umassd.edu. Link: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Biology Department Seminar, Catherine Matassa, Viewing food chains from the middle-out Location: > See description for location Contact: Biology Seminar Series Description: Location: LARTS 108 Speaker: Catherine Matassa, University of Connecticut Title: Viewing food chains from the middle-out: how prey responses to predation risk affect top-down and bottom-up processes Abstract: Predators can drive trophic cascades by consuming their prey but also by causing prey to engage in anti-predator behaviors such as reduced feeding rates or habitat shifts. However, the energetic costs of anti-predator behaviors require that prey carefully balance the need to avoid both predation and starvation. While a growing body of theory predicts predator-sensitive prey foraging behavior, empirical work has been necessary to identify the mechanisms that link anti-predator behaviors to their population-, community-, and ecosystem-level consequences. My research on benthic marine communities demonstrates that the cascading effects of "fear" on prey behavior and physiology can be more pronounced and more dynamic than the numerical effects of predators on prey density. This contrast arises because predation risk influences not only the intensity of prey foraging impacts, but also when, where, and how prey gather and utilize energy from lower trophic levels. Emerging from the ecology of fear is a "middle-out" perspective: the cascading effects of predators and the flow of energy and nutrients to higher trophic levels ultimately depend on the organisms that connect the tops and bottoms of food chains. Because most species are in the middle of food chains (and must therefore balance foraging-predation risk trade-offs), understanding how fear and other environmental stressors interact will be necessary to effectively predict and manage the impacts of climate change and trophic downgrading on marine ecosystems. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Mechanical Engineering Seminar on 10/22/21 by Dr. Jing Wang, SDE Amazon Inc. Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering (MNE) SEMINAR DATE: October 22, 2021 TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. LOCATION: Charlton College of Business (CCB), Room 115 SPEAKER: Dr. Jing Wang, SDE Amazon Inc. TOPIC: Deformation of a Compliant Wall in a Turbulent Boundary Layer ABSTRACT: The interactions between a compliant wall and turbulent or laminar boundary layer have been investigated extensively for over 60 years. Most of the studies are focused on turbulent drag reduction or noise suppression. With the development of 3D flow diagnostic techniques like tomographic PIV, or Shake-The-Box, it's able to measure the 3D flow including 3D velocities and 3D pressure field coupled with the compliant surface deformation. Among them, 3D pressure is difficult to measure directly and is forcing the deformation, thus, it's calculated indirectly from 3D velocities. In this talk, I will first present a robust and accurate GPU-based method for direct integration of velocity field to obtain the 3D pressure. This method is applied to the experiment of turbulent channel flow over a compliant surface. The experiment utilized a relatively stiffer compliant wall with Young's modulus of 1 Mpa and had a center-line flow speed (Uc) of 2.5 m/s. The resulting deformation amplitude is too small (20 nm) to affect the near wall flow field, thus a one-way coupling between the flow and the deformation is observed. The deformation has two modes, the fast mode move with Uc and slow mode is advecting at 0.72Uc. Statistics show the positive slow mode deformation is correlated with low pressure which resides in a vortical structure and the negative deformation is located at sweep ejection transition where there is a high pressure. Aiming at revealing the two-way coupling of deformation and turbulent boundary layer, we redesigned the experiment based on the Chase (Chase 1991) model prediction. Careful selections of freestream velocity (U0 = 6.0 m/s) and compliant surface Young's modulus (180 kPa) ensures the deformation amplitude is comparable to the wall unit. In this experiment, a spanwise propagating deformation mode which is aligned in the streamwise direction is observed. This mode does not move with the flow and seems to be associated with the shearr wave. Another mode of deformation advects downstream with 0.66U0 and is preferentially aligned in the spanwise direction. Different with turbulent flow over a rough wall, the near wall velocity profile showing a sharp increase of velocity gradient at 10 wall units. These findings are consistent with recent DNS results by Rosti and Brandt (2017). BIO: Dr. Jin Wang received his Bachelor of Science at University of Science and Technology of China in 2012. Then he moved to Johns Hopkins University to pursue his PhD degree in Whiting School of Engineering under the supervision of Professor Joseph Katz focusing on flow diagnostics and turbulent flow over compliant surfaces. Dr. Wang received his PhD degree in 2019. For more information please contact Dr. Hangjian Ling, MNE Seminar Coordinator (hling1@umassd.edu). All are welcome. Students taking MNE-500 are REQUIRED to attend! All other MNE BS and MS students are encouraged to attend. EAS students are encouraged to attend. Thank you, Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering scunha@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Financial Aid Help Labs: Library 128 Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join the Financial Aid Services Street Team for FA Help Labs on Wednesdays from 3 to 4 p.m. and Fridays from 3 to 4 p.m. in Library 128 for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid. Contact Mark Yanni myanni@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
« 10/20 - 11/17 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Master of Science Thesis Defense and Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam By: Savas Erdim Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Designing a Covariance Matrix Tapered MVDR Beamformer that is Universal Over Notch Width Location: DION 109 ABSTRACT: Adaptive beamformers suppress interferers and reduce background noise by adjusting the complex array weights in response to the received array data. Practical adaptive beamformers like the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer balance these two competing requirements while maintaining unity gain for the desired look direction. The MVDR beamformer places sharp notches in the location of the interferers to minimize the interferer output power. For stationary sources, MVDR is an optimal beamformer, but the performance of MVDR degrades in the presence of moving interferers. Interferers moving at different bearing rates reside inside beamformer resolution cells for different durations, challenging MVDR's ability to place accurate notches in the interferer direction. Consequently, the moving interferer is generally no longer within the single sharp notch location. Covariance Matrix Taper (CMT) MVDR mitigates moving interferers by creating wider notches in the beampattern. However, the CMT increases the notch width by a fixed amount, and the best notch width depends on the unknown bearing rate of each interferer which may change over time. A single fixed CMT notch width cannot suppress all moving interferers perfectly. Therefore, the need for different notch widths for different bearing rates leads us to the possibility of designing a universal algorithm for the notch width parameter. The universal CMT beamformer asymptotically achieves performance rivaling or exceeding the performance of the best fixed notch width CMT beamformer in a set by computing its array weights as a performance weighted blend of the array weights for the fixed notch width beamformers. Note: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck Committee Members: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam and Dr. Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth *For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck via email at jbuck@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Alumni, General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Saturday, October 23, 2021
All Day	Brutalism & the Public University Past, Present and Future Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Modern twentieth century architecture has always inspired a variety of passionate responses, especially the "brutalist" buildings at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Amherst. To explore their architectural heritage and its preservation, the two campuses will hold a two-day symposium, Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present, and Future on October 22 and 23. The symposium, part of the UMassBrut collaborative, will provide a unique platform that brings together a team of distinguished scholars, industry professionals, artists, and passionate citizens with an interest in the preservation of mid to late twentieth-century architecture. The symposium's goal is to create a dynamic, cross-disciplinary conversation among all participants on how to provide stewardship of these buildings for the future. Each day will feature professional workshops, scholarly lectures, guided campus tours, public art exhibitions, and creative activities (including video projections on the architectural facades). Participants will discuss Brutalist architecture (history and design) and explore the issues of preservation and adaption unique to these modernist concrete structures. Both campuses contain extensive examples of mid-century Brutalist concrete architecture by world-renowned modernist architects including Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, Kevin Roche, Hugh Stubbins, and Edward Durell Stone. These landmark structures will be accessible in Dartmouth on Friday, October 22, and in Amherst on Saturday, October 23. Keynote presentations on both days will include Chandler McCoy and Ana Paula Arato Gonçalves of the Getty Conservation Institute's Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. Speakers include faculty from UMass and visiting faculty from Brown, Harvard, Roger Williams, Rutgers, Columbia and the University of South Carolina. Other speakers include distinguished professionals from the fields of architecture, historic preservation, engineering, construction, lighting, graphic, interior design, and professional staff from UMass and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance. The UMassBrut group, organizers of the symposium, consists of UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst faculty, staff, students, and interested parties dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and reimagining mid-century Brutalist public architecture. The group will continue to organize events and engage others in the UMass system and the public at large. Location: UMass Amherst Contact: Allison Cywin at acywin@umassd.edu. Link: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts
« 9/22 - 5:00 AM	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
« 9/22 - 5:00 AM	AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford. For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography. Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice. Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director gallery@umassd.edu (508) 999-8555 Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am â€“ 6 pm. Free and open to the public Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Spaces of Rest Meditations, Spruce classroom 130 or 128 Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Wed Night 8-9pm and Sat Morning at 10-11am Spaces of Rest will be weekly collaborative practices of resting and reflecting. These spaces will be for students to come together to share space through engaging with meditation, media, and conversations. The meditations will be twice a week and will be a space of relaxing, listening, and clearing the mind. *Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building. For more info - https://spacesofrest.weebly.com or email Clareese Hill, Artist in Residence at chill5@umasss.edu Clareese Hill is the 2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth CVPA Artist in Residence. She is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word "identity" through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. She has performed lectures at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Sussex, CUNY Graduate Center, The Chicago Art Department, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She has exhibited her research internationally in Chicago, New York, California, London, France, and cyberspace. Clareese was a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Clareese has published academic essays in THEOREM Journal, Architecture and Culture Journal, and has an upcoming article in Antennae, The Journal of Nature and Culture. Clareese holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Student Affairs
« 10/20 - 11/17 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Virtual Open House Location: Online Contact: Admissions Description: We’re looking forward to showing you why UMass Dartmouth is the right place for you. Explore our 6 colleges and 90+ programs. Find out about campus including our new first-year residence hall and dining facility. Learn about the admissions process. Hear from athletics, financial aid, student life & more. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/openhouse/ Topical Areas: Undergraduate Admissions, University Marketing

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