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Sunday, May 28, 2023
« 5/17 - 5/31 »	Blended Teaching: Designing Meaningful Content Connections Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: An engaging two-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to current research and best practices for blended teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, and collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of blended instruction that can be incorporated into their course(s), to enhance student engagement and meaningful content connections. This unit of instruction will meet the Quality Blended Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming blended course(s) in a myCourses site. Link: https://instructionaldev1.sites.umassd.edu/teaching-blended/ Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
Monday, May 29, 2023
« 5/17 - 5/31 »	Blended Teaching: Designing Meaningful Content Connections Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: An engaging two-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to current research and best practices for blended teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, and collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of blended instruction that can be incorporated into their course(s), to enhance student engagement and meaningful content connections. This unit of instruction will meet the Quality Blended Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming blended course(s) in a myCourses site. Link: https://instructionaldev1.sites.umassd.edu/teaching-blended/ Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
All Day	Memorial Day (no classes) Location: Online Contact: Online & Continuing Education Description: Memorial Day Holiday, Monday May 29, 2023 (No Summer Classes). Link: https://www.umassd.edu/online/ Topical Areas: OCE Academic Calendar, OCE Summer, OCE Maymester 3-week session, OCE 6-week session, OCE 8-week session, OCE 12-week session, OCE Full session, OCE Accelerated Nursing Session 1
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
« 5/17 - 5/31 »	Blended Teaching: Designing Meaningful Content Connections Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: An engaging two-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to current research and best practices for blended teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, and collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of blended instruction that can be incorporated into their course(s), to enhance student engagement and meaningful content connections. This unit of instruction will meet the Quality Blended Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming blended course(s) in a myCourses site. Link: https://instructionaldev1.sites.umassd.edu/teaching-blended/ Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Human Resources-New Employee Orientation Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This is an orientation for new employees. Foster Administration Building, Conference Room 229A Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	BMEBT Doctoral Proposal Defense by Mishal Pokharel Location: Textiles Building , 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: BMEBT Doctoral Proposal Defense by Mishal Pokharel Date: May 30, 2023 Time: 10:00am Location: Textiles 219 Title: Novel Bio-Hybrid System Using Modified PLGA Microparticles Integrated with Light Materials for Nir-Light Mediated Sustained Drug Release Abstract: Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microparticles are widely used for controlled drug delivery due to their biocompatibility and biodegradability. The extant systems exhibit inadequate site specificity, on-demand drug release, and deep-seated tissue penetration capabilities, consequently impeding the successful translation of research. While radiation and chemotherapy have shown efficacy, their imprecision, high cost, and sustained side effects present considerable limitations. Hence, there exists a pressing demand for a system that not only displays superior efficacy but also targets endogenous tumors while minimizing damage to adjacent tissue. In this study, we aim to fabricate PLGA microparticles using a microfluidic/electro-hydrodynamic atomization (EHDA) setup and integrate them with indocyanine green (ICG) for on-demand drug release using near-infrared (NIR) light. The microfluidic setup allows for precise control of the droplet size and shape, resulting in uniform microparticles with a narrow size distribution. Additionally, we will functionalize the microparticles with the RGD peptide sequence to target specific cells and allow for better adhesion. ICG is a NIR dye that can be used for imaging and phototherapy, making it a promising candidate for drug delivery applications. By integrating ICG into the PLGA microparticles, we can achieve both targeted drug delivery and real-time monitoring of drug release. The RGD peptide sequence is a well-known ligand for integrin receptors that are overexpressed on the surface of cancer cells. By functionalizing the PLGA microparticles with the RGD peptide sequence, we can increase the selectivity of drug delivery and reduce toxicity to healthy cells. Utilization of such a bio-hybrid microsphere system (BMS) allows for targeting all aspects of a drug delivery system. For better drug delivery characteristics such as reducing burst release chitosan will be cross-linked to PLGA using Genepin. Genepin is a naturally derived cross-linker that and the integration of chitosan would help sustain the release rate. We also plan to encapsulate gold nanoparticles into the microparticles to achieve a synergistic effect in cancer treatment. Gold nanoparticles help increase the thermal response of the microparticles, enhancing the drug-release process when subjected to NIR light. The BMS will be subjected to a power density of 2-14 W/cm2 at a wavelength of 808 nm. The release kinetics and the effect of all components on the kinetics will be studied. On-demand drug release can be used to tailor, person-specific treatment. The microsphere size and component variations will be altered around the desired release kinetics. To manipulate multiple particles, we will be using a galvanometer system integrated with an optical tweezer (OT). Moreover, we plan to use an OT with the galvanometer system to specifically target the cells of interest and trigger the drug release from the microparticle. The OT uses a focused laser beam to trap and manipulate microscopic objects, allowing for precise control of drug release. Overall, the integration of ICG, RGD peptide sequence, gold nanoparticles, and the use of a galvanometer system with an optical tweezer for targeted drug release holds great promise for improving the efficacy and selectivity of drug delivery for cancer treatment. Advisor: Dr. Kihan Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering (kpark1@umassd.edu) Committee Members: Dr. Tracie Ferreira, Department of Bioengineering Dr. Milana Vasudev, Department of Bioengineering Dr. Qinguo Fan, Department of Bioengineering Dr. Chen-Lu Yang, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship All BMEBT graduate students are encouraged to attend, and all interested parties are invited. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Computer and Information Science, Co-op Program, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Summer Financial Aid FAFSA Help Labs LARTS 202 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 Financial Aid Services for FAFSA Help Labs in LARTS 202 on Wednesdays from 10am-11am 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
« 5/17 - 9:00 AM	Blended Teaching: Designing Meaningful Content Connections Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: An engaging two-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to current research and best practices for blended teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, and collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of blended instruction that can be incorporated into their course(s), to enhance student engagement and meaningful content connections. This unit of instruction will meet the Quality Blended Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming blended course(s) in a myCourses site. Link: https://instructionaldev1.sites.umassd.edu/teaching-blended/ Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
All Day	Drop Ends Location: Online Contact: Online & Continuing Education Description: Summer 2023 Drop period for 100% refund ends for the 12-week session. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/online/ Topical Areas: OCE Academic Calendar, OCE Summer, OCE 12-week session
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Summer Financial Aid FAFSA Help Labs Location: Liberal Arts Building 202 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join Financial Aid Services for FAFSA Help Labs in LARTS 202 on Wednesdays from 10am-11am 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
9:00 AM - 6/28 »	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
Thursday, June 1, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: A virtual information session on the graduate business programs at UMass Dartmouth. This event will include information on the following programs: - MBA - MS Accounting - MS Finance - MS Healthcare Management - MS Technology Management This is a virtual zoom event designed to answer questions you may have about the various degree and certificate programs. Link: https://apply.umassd.edu/portal/ccb_virtual_info_session Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Undergraduate, Accounting and Finance, _Charlton College of Business, Decision and Information Science, MBA or Graduate, Management and Marketing, Graduate Studies, Graduate Admissions
All Day	Classes End Location: Online Contact: Online & Continuing Education Description: Summer 2023 Maymester classes end, last class before final exam. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/online/ Topical Areas: OCE Academic Calendar, OCE Summer, OCE Maymester 3-week session
« 5/31 - 6/28 »	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
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Summit Financial Reporting 101 - Review of Summit Financials Dashboards(Oracle BI) for Financial Reporting Location: Online Cost: Please watch the videos for Summit in the Event URL prior to class Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Review of Summit Financial Reporting Tool (Oracle BI) - Zoom Training Learn how to lookup Budget information Learn how to review Encumbrances and Expenses and export to Excel. Please register. Zoom Link and prerequisite video/handout will be sent upon Registration. Link: https://my.umassd.edu/group/procurement-videos Topical Areas: Training, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
Friday, June 2, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Summer Financial Aid FAFSA Help Zoom Labs 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 Financial Aid Services for FAFSA Help Labs via Zoom on Fridays from 2-3pm for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid. Contact Mark Yanni myanni@umassd.edu Join Zoom Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97888455259?pwd=MjNiSmsvY2N0Mk1UNGhSL2ttM0g2UT09 Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
All Day	Final Exams Location: Online Contact: Online & Continuing Education Description: Summer 2023 Maymester final exam day. Link: https://www.umassd.edu/online/ Topical Areas: OCE Academic Calendar, OCE Summer, OCE Maymester 3-week session
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	MNE MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Utiwe Ezekiel Location: > See description for location Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Utiwe Ezekiel DATE: June 2, 2023 TIME: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. LOCATION: Virtual, Zoom link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/96797078382?pwd=VWxjZW1HU2k3cVZvUW94aFFXM0RhUT09 Meeting ID: 967 9707 8382 Passcode: 508999 TOPIC: Deep Learning to Predict Full-field Nonlinear Plastic Response of Nanocomposites ABSTRACT: Predicting full-field mechanical responses accurately and efficiently is of fundamental importance to assess materials failure and has various applications in design optimization, uncertainty quantification, and structural health monitoring. The classical FE^2 or global-local scheme can be costly, especially for nonlinear plasticity and damage problems. On the other hand, the homogenization method is efficient for overall mean-field results but fails to capture local full-field responses, which can be critical for materials failure. In this study, deep learning methods were developed to predict full-field plastic responses and in particular the complicated nonlinear localized plastic shear band patterns in nanocomposites. A Montel Carlo algorithm is used to automatically generate random geometries representing material microstructures of Al/SiC nanocomposites. The models were subjected to pure shear loading of macroscopically uniform boundary conditions admitted by the Hill-Mandel condition in micromechanics. Nonlinear elastoplastic simulations were then performed in commercial finite element software ABAQUS to generate inhomogeneous full-field stress/strain responses for data collection and validation. A systematic workflow was created to automate the model generation, finite element simulations, postprocessing, and data curation of response field images for machine learning. After that, a deep learning model of conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Network (cGAN) was developed to predict the full-field plastic response and especially capture the localized plastic shear band patterns. A robust training data set augmented with cases under various rotation transformations has been implemented to consolidate an unbiased training and ensure the symmetry/objectivity of deep learning models. The proposed image-based deep learning methods can be valuable to researchers deploying data-driven models in many other engineering applications involving large scale nonlinear full-field predictions. ADVISOR: Dr. Jun Li, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, UMassD COMMITTEE MEMBERS: -Dr. Wenzhen Huang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, UMassD -Dr. Alfa Heryudono, Associate Professor of Department of Mathematics, UMassD Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Dr. Jun Li (jun.li@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
« 5/31 - 6/28 »	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
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Inquiring on Budgets and Running PeopleSoft Financial Reports Location: Online Contact: Jean Schlesinger Description: Learn how to run PeopleSoft Financial Reports GL7045 Revenue and Expense, GM7047 Rev and Expense Projects, GL7062 Transaction Detail Report and GL7079 open Encumbrance Report and look up your budget. Watch Accounting 101 Video prior to the event. Zoom Link and prerequisite video/handout will be sent upon registration. Link: https://my.umassd.edu/group/procurement-videos Topical Areas: audience: Staff, audience: Faculty, Training
Saturday, June 3, 2023
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM	New Bedford NAACP 33rd Annual Freedom Fund Breakfast Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: NAACP UMass Dartmouth College Chapter and Youth Council graduates are honored with NAACP New Bedford Branch scholarships at this annual event. Century House, Acushnet MA Contact: Peggy Dias, peggy.dias@umassd.edu or 508-999-8791 Sponsored by the NAACP New Bedford Branch, Youth Council & College Chapter Topical Areas: Alumni, General Public, University Community, Black History 4 Seasons
« 5/31 - 6/28 »	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

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