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Sunday, October 23, 2022
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM	CTC Library Associates annual authors' brunch Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: $50/$45 for CTC members/$25 students Contact: Carney Library Associates Description: CLAIRE T. CARNEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES ANNUAL AUTHORSâ€™ BRUNCH On Sunday, October 23, 2022, at noon, the Claire T. Carney Library Associates will be presenting its 14th annual authorsâ€™ brunch at the Woodland Commons. Parking is available on campus. Reservations are required no later than Friday, October 7th. The cost of the brunch is $50, $45 for CTC Library Associate members, with a 10% discount for reservations for tables of eight. Tickets may be purchased from Library Associates members or online at https://bit.ly/authorsbrunch22. Sponsorships for the program are welcomed. Please contact Maria Sanguinetti for more information at msanguinetti@umassd.edu or by calling 508-991-5096. The Library Associates are delighted to feature three outstanding authors, Barbara Delinsky, Jacquelyn Mitchard and Steven Manchester. Barbara Delinsky is an American novelist whose books focus on family drama, marital issues and women in the workplace. She is the author of over 20 New York Times bestsellers. Born near Boston on August 8, 1945, she graduated from Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts and went on to earn a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in Sociology from Boston College. She married Steve Delinsky, a law student, when she was very young. After the birth of her first child, she took a job as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. After the birth of her twins in 1980, she decided to try writing. After only three months of researching, plotting and writing, she had her first book published. Ms. Delinsky has written using the pseudonyms Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. In 2001, after surviving breast cancer, she branched out into non-fiction with Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has been the recipient of several awards including the RITA Award. Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American journalist and author. Born in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois on December 10, 1956, she studied creative writing for three semesters under Mark Costello at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Mitchard became a newspaper reporter in 1979 for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel eventually becoming its lifestyle columnist. Her weekly column, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, appeared in 125 newspapers nationwide. Ms. Mitchard is best known for her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, which was an Oprah Winfrey book selection. All of her other novels have been bestsellers as well, winning critical acclaim for The Most Wanted, Cage of Stars, and The Breakdown Lane. Ms. Mitchard has also written for children and young adults. She is an alum and distinguished fellow of the Ragdale Foundation where she began her writing career with the encouragement of Jane Hamilton and a Pulitzer prize winner. Steven Manchester is the author of the # 1 bestsellers, Twelve Months, The Rockinâ€™ Chair, Pressed Pennies and Gooseberry Island and the national bestsellers, Ashes, The Changing Season and Three Shoeboxes. Born on November 4, 1967, a native of Westport, he began his writing career after serving in Operation Desert Storm. His book, The Unexpected War: The Gulf War Legacy, looks at the war through the eyes of a common soldier. He is the winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Book Festival Award and the 2018 New York Book Festival Award. His latest book is Bread Bags & Bullies: Surviving the 80â€™s. Mr. Manchester is the father of four children and is married to the love of his life, Paula. He works as a Disaster Recovery Manager for Sunlife Financial and teaches workshops on how to get published. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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
Monday, October 24, 2022
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Tea Party with Poetry Reading with the Artist in Residence and Guest Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Balsam Hall 1st Floor Lounge Note: Persons that do not reside in Balsam Hall will need to enter by the Welcome Center in Balsam Hall to be helped into the Balsam Hall Main Lounge. Please come meet the Artist in Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year Marina Leybishkis and her special guest JORDAN TURK (She/Her) @d1g1tald1ary Marina Leybishkis is a New York based multimedia interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. Through her use of video, photography, archives, archeology, and text, Leybishkis analyzes the instability of meaning, the construction of visual narratives as locations of self-formation as well as the implications of such narratives into perceptions of identity. In her work, the image becomes a fraught site for examining geopolitical concepts of nationality, cultural memory, and the social body. Through her installations, Leybishkis transforms memory into materiality, challenging her viewers to inhabit histories in all their complexity. She holds a BA in Justice and Humanities Studies from The City University of New York and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the Fulbright grant for artistic research. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Vermont, New York, Boston, Utah, Greece, China, South Korea, Uzbekistan and in between geographical borders. The most recent, Leybishkis' residency at The Chandler Center for the Arts, Vermont was part of Justice Festival in collaboration with poet J. Turk, took the forms of installations, video works, performances, and artists' book. Jordan Turk is a writer, performer and multimodal maker exploring intersections of language and bodies. Working out of renovated barn space in central Vermont, she produces works across boundaries of material, platforms, and taste. Turk considers how bodies form, shift and alter themselves, describing this process as a method of translating physicality. Stitching together histories, she exposes the seams and scars of thought. From page to performance, subject to object, Jordan questions notions of authenticity, self and the perception of "realness". Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Utah and throughout New England. Frequently, Turk's projects take the forms of installations, accompanied by video works, performances, and artists' book. Jordan's artist book, "Body: a portrait in process" was acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL.. She is currently developing her newest collection of writing, "Tidy Crimes," to accompanying an exhibition at Chandler Gallery during their 2023 season. Jordan holds her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information contact Michelle Black: mblack2@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Student Affairs
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Tharm Ratnarajah, Professor, Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: Federated Learning in Massive MIMO Networks: Convergence Analysis and Communication-Efficient Design Speaker: Dr. Tharm Ratnarajah, Professor, Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Abstract: In federated learning (FL), model weights must be updated at local users and the base station (BS). These weights are subjected to uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmission errors due to the limited reliability of wireless channels. In this paper, we investigate the impact of imperfections in both UL and DL links. First, for a multi-user massive multi-input-multi-output (mMIMO) 6G network, employing zero-forcing (ZF) and minimum mean-squared-error (MMSE) schemes, we analyze the estimation errors of weights for each round. A tighter convergence bound on the modelling error for the communication efficient FL algorithm is derived from the order of O (1/T s2), where s2 denotes the variance of overall communication error, including the quantisation noise. The analysis shows that the reliability of DL links is more critical than that of UL links. The transmit power can be varied in the training process to reduce energy consumption. We also vary the number of local training steps, average codeword length after quantisation and scheduling policy to improve communication efficiency. Simulations with image classification problems on MNIST, EMNIST and FMNIST datasets verify the derived bound and are useful to infer the minimum SNR required for successful convergence of the FL algorithm. Biography: Tharm Ratnarajah is currently a Professor in digital communications and signal processing with the Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. He has authored or co-authored over 400 publications and holds four U.S. patents. He has supervised 16 PhD students and 21 postdoctoral Research Fellows and raised more than USD 11 million in research funding. His research interests include signal processing and information-theoretic aspects of beyond 5G wireless networks, full-duplex radio, mmWave communications, random matrices theory, and array/radar signal processing. The Seminars is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam at 508.999.8534, or by via email at dkasilingam@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Walk-in Study Abroad Advising Location: International Programs Office LARTS 016 Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a question about studying abroad? Stop by the International Programs Office (IPO) during walk-in hours. Students are seen on a first-come, first-serve basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM	Cliteracy: The Art of Intimate Justice Talk Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Join artist Sophia Wallace for her talk on the development of the term Cliteracy Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Visual Arts, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Lectures and Seminars, Student Affairs
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Tea Party with Poetry Reading with the Artist in Residence and Guest Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Spruce Hall 1st Floor Lounge Note: If you are not a resident of Spruce Hall then please come to the door facing parking lot 8 and you staff will escort you in. Please come meet the Artist in Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year Marina Leybishkis and her special guest JORDAN TURK (She/Her) @d1g1tald1ary Marina Leybishkis is a New York based multimedia interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. Through her use of video, photography, archives, archeology, and text, Leybishkis analyzes the instability of meaning, the construction of visual narratives as locations of self-formation as well as the implications of such narratives into perceptions of identity. In her work, the image becomes a fraught site for examining geopolitical concepts of nationality, cultural memory, and the social body. Through her installations, Leybishkis transforms memory into materiality, challenging her viewers to inhabit histories in all their complexity. She holds a BA in Justice and Humanities Studies from The City University of New York and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the Fulbright grant for artistic research. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Vermont, New York, Boston, Utah, Greece, China, South Korea, Uzbekistan and in between geographical borders. The most recent, Leybishkis residency at The Chandler Center for the Arts, Vermont was part of Justice Festival in collaboration with poet J. Turk, took the forms of installations, video works, performances, and artists' book. Jordan Turk is a writer, performer and multimodal maker exploring intersections of language and bodies. Working out of renovated barn space in central Vermont, she produces works across boundaries of material, platforms, and taste. Turk considers how bodies form, shift and alter themselves, describing this process as a method of translating physicality. Stitching together histories, she exposes the seams and scars of thought. From page to performance, subject to object, Jordan questions notions of authenticity, self and the perception of "realness". Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Utah and throughout New England. Frequently, Turk's projects take the forms of installations, accompanied by video works, performances, and artists' book. Jordan's artist book, "Body: a portrait in process" was acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL. She is currently developing her newest collection of writing, "Tidy Crimes," to accompanying an exhibition at Chandler Gallery during their 2023 season. Jordan holds her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information contact Michelle Black ad mblack2@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Student Affairs
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Walk-in Study Abroad Advising Location: International Programs Office LARTS 016 Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a question about studying abroad? Stop by the International Programs Office (IPO) during walk-in hours. Students are seen on a first-come, first-serve basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Open Educational Resources 101 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Office of Faculty Development Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: OER 101: The Basics of Finding and Adopting Open Educational Resources Wednesday, 10/26 at 1:00 pm OFD Library 213 Facilitator: Emma Wood, Scholarly Communication Librarian Have you considered whether your traditional textbook is the optimal centerpiece for your teaching and your students' classroom experience? Open Educational Resources (OER) are textbooks and other teaching materials that are openly licensed and free to use. OER have gained traction for their cost-savings to students, but there are numerous other benefits such as their customizable format and flexibility for sharing and remixing. Adopting OER is also an opportunity to promote equity because students have day one, consistent access to their materials. No more waiting for a late Amazon delivery or fumbling with login credentials for your students to get what they need for class. Let's talk about the basics of the OER model, the benefits, and resources for finding materials within your subject. We will also do some hands-on activities such as an "OER Taste Test" to compare excerpts from openly licensed materials with traditional copyrighted textbooks. Please join us for an introduction to OER and the ways that free teaching materials can not only save your students money, but can also bring an exciting component to your classroom that has the power to put everyone on the same page. October 24 - 30, 2022 is International Open Access Week, and this workshop is a great way to focus on making information free, online, and open for all to use. To register, please email Ellen Mandly at emandly@umassd.edu. We encourage you to join our programs in person, especially if you are already on campus. If you are not, know that our programming will remain accessible through the continued offering of virtual participation. Please indicate modality preference when registering. Lunch will be provided for all in-person participants. Questions should be directed to emma.wood@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Graduate, Faculty Development
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Fall Into Your Major Location: > See description for location Cost: free Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Do you want to explore major and minor options at UMass Dartmouth? Are you wondering if you are in the right major? Or are you looking for a minor? Come to "Fall Into your Major," and meet with upperclassmen, students just like you, in majors at UMass Dartmouth. Learn firsthand about their experiences, their knowledge about their major, classes, opportunities, and knowledge about their professors. This is a great casual opportunity to learn from your peers. In addition: Professional advising staff will be at the event to answer particular questions you may have. You can explore information about campus services, and of course....Pizza and Prizes! We would love to see you take advantage of this opportunity! As a reminder, if you are undeclared, the university policy is to declare by 45 credits. Use this event to get information about possible academic paths. Join us in the Marketplace For more information contact mfaria@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Academic Affairs, Advising, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Counseling Center, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Sustainability Office, Student Affairs, Center for Access &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Success
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Advisory Board Meeting Location: Science and Engineering Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Advisory Board Meeting Topical Areas: General Public, Mechanical Engineering
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Campus Tour with College of Visual and Performing Arts Info Session Location: UMass Dartmouth Main Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Admissions Description: Your tour will include: • 15 Minute Admissions Welcome presentation and Special Info session about College of Visual and Performing Arts. • 45 minute walking tour of First year housing, Dining, and academic buildings. • Meeting with an Admissions counselor upon request after the tour. Please wear comfortable shoes and plan for our various New England weather. If you have questions please contact Undergraduate Admissions: 508-999-8605 admissions@umassd.edu Link: https://apply.umassd.edu/register/?id=3b7e3215-2027-422a-ae5d-f76ab93296db Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Undergraduate, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Undergraduate Admissions
12:30 AM - 1:30 AM	The Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Weekly Seminar Announcement - Sara 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 "Extreme Events in the Benguela Upwelling System" Sarah Gaines University of Rhode Island Wednesday, October 26, 2022 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm SMAST East, Rooms 101/102 and via Zoom Abstract: Wind in Cape Town is notorious and occasionally the prevailing summer south-easter can cause havoc on land and sea. Recent data have shown that the duration and magnitude of these wind events are having a noticeable operational and economic impact on the port and the city. Various components of the operation of the container and goods terminals in the Port of Cape Town, have windspeed safety thresholds, above which operations are required to cease. With some wind events persisting for days, the impact can be amplified if cargo vessel operators opt to transfer cargo bound for/from Cape Town, at the next port of call. Similarly, downtime is caused by ships’ quayside ranging due to high swell. The value chain of port operations is complex involving not only cargo handling but also stakeholders who service and manage administration of shipping operations, import and export processing and businesses who depend on shipping for time sensitive cargo. Extreme wind in the port has become so problematic that the government to consider scaling down operations there and relocating them to a port an hour north of Cape Town, which would have very deep economic impacts on the region’s economy. The EXEBUS project (Belmont Forum-funded project on Ecological and Economic impacts of the intensification of EXtreme Events in the Benguela Upwelling System) is considering this case study to investigate and mitigate these conditions with both early warning systems and potential engineering adaptations. We need to understand the extent of the problem, links to change in the larger Benguela system and quantify the value chain to measure the true economic and social impact of port delays caused by wind relative to other drivers. A process of stakeholder engagement is conducted to identify all those affected by this problem, from the port authority, through the port operators, to the individuals whose businesses and livelihoods are impacted. From a biophyscial perspective, we must ascertain what contribution increased wind intensity (windspeed, duration and seasonality shifts) are making and what is attributable to confounding factors (additional wharf capacity, ship size trends etc). Understanding the climatology of the wind at different time and space scales, considering regional climate dynamics and the impact of ENSO events, is a third factor. These aspects are then brought together to examine the trends, proximal and distal drivers of extreme winds, and to evaluate the social and economic strategic options available to manage this extreme event. Sarah Gaines will provide updates on the EXEBUS Project, primarily the case study on extreme wind in Cape Town but also cases related to fisheries in Angola, economic impacts in Namibia and marine heat waves in South Africa. She will also share an overview of the work of the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island. ************************************************************************** Zoom Meeting sign on: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270?pwd=L2Z1bDZESTFCKzJYZWduYVhWenYvZz09 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
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Queer Scholars Speaker Series - Dr. Jaime Cantrell Location: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: In celebration of LGBTQIA+ History Month, the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality presents its 2022 Queer Scholars Speaker Series. This Wednesday, join Dr. Jaime Cantrell, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University - Texarkana, who will present "Queer Affect and the Archives." Lunch will be served. Please RSVP at the link below. Link: https://forms.gle/bcFgPiXKKDJ6QKeo7 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Research, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Lectures and Seminars, Student Affairs
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Department of Fisheries Oceanography Seminar Announcement-Yaamini Venkataraman 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 "Leveraging epigenetics to understand how marine organisms response to climate change" Yaamini Venkataraman Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Wednesday, October 26, 2022 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm SMAST East, Rooms 101/102 and via Zoom Abstract: With climate change rapidly impacting ecosystems, phenotypic plasticity that operates on timescales quicker than evolutionary adaptation is crucial for species persistence. While several studies document plastic responses to stressors, there is a lack of studies investigating how and why plasticity is observed. Epigenetic mechanisms, like DNA methylation, can mediate phenotypic plasticity and responses to environmental stressors, which makes them useful for understanding organismal stress tolerance. Epigenetics refers to changes in gene expression that do not arise from changes in the DNA sequence, with methylation of cytosine bases being the most studied mechanism. In this talk, I’ll share how I use DNA methylation analysis to understand eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) response to ocean acidification and Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) response to hypoxia. Investigating the molecular underpinnings of responses to climate stressors will provide a thorough understanding of these ecologically and economically important species’ ability to withstand future ocean conditions. ****************************************************************************** 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
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	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 and Fridays from 3-4pm 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
Thursday, October 27, 2022
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Are You Spiritually Woke? How to Have a Spiritual Awakening and Become Wicked Zen Location: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Carolyn Wnuk and Caroline Paradis, hosts of the Mystify Me Podcast and authors of the book Magical Cocktails for Witches, invite you to join this live podcast recording as they open up the road map to a higher level of consciousness. They'll explore the common catalysts of a spiritual awakening, the phases of characteristics, and a few roadblocks that might be keeping you from reaching that high-vibe state of enlightenment. Mocktails and refreshments will be served. Topical Areas: Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Lectures and Seminars, Student Affairs, University Marketing
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Pronouns: A Primer & Practical Guide Location: > See description for location Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Pronouns: A Primer & Practical Guide Thursday, October 27, 2022 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. via Zoom Facilitators: -Dr. Ashley Ruderman-Loof, Assistant Director for Advocacy & Education -Dr. Juli Parker, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Exciting changes to UMass Dartmouth's student record system are live! The system now allows options for pronouns. Join Ashley Ruderman-Looff and Juli Parker for a brief primer on gender identity and how you can support your student's diverse identities in the classroom. To register for this virtual workshop, please contact Ellen Mandly, emandly@umassd.edu to receive the Zoom link and passcode. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Graduate, Faculty Development
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Walk-in Study Abroad Advising Location: International Programs Office LARTS 016 Contact: International Programs Office Description: Have a question about studying abroad? Stop by the International Programs Office (IPO) during walk-in hours. Students are seen on a first-come, first-serve basis. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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
Friday, October 28, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Joint Mechanical Engineering and Estuarine & Ocean Sciences Seminar Location: > See description for location Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Joint Mechanical Engineering and Estuarine & Ocean Sciences SEMINAR DATE: October 28, 2022 TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. LOCATIONS: Liberal Arts Building, Room 374 (LARTS-374) -and- Zoom link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/91640406955?pwd=eklBZWVDOXVDa2VwUFMra1kwNWhjdz09 Meeting ID: 916 4040 6955 Password: 500 SPEAKER: Dr. Tracy Mandel, Assistant Professor Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire TOPIC: Fluid Mechanics Through the Lens of the Coastal Free Surface ABSTRACT: Flow interactions at coastlines play a major role in global ocean energy and nutrient budgets. However, coastal flows can be expensive, logistically challenging, and even dangerous to study in situ. In this talk, I will cover two problems that connect the water surface and subsurface dynamics in the coastal ocean, and show how we use idealized laboratory experiments to understand the physics of these systems. First, I will discuss work aim towards remotely characterizing seagrass meadows by studying the overlying water surface. Flow through a seagrass bed can generate large overturning vortex structures, which cause small perturbations in the free surface slope. Using laboratory experiments, we develop a parameterized model to reconstruct within-canopy velocity profiles solely from water surface measurements, suggesting that in some environmental flows, the subsurface hydrodynamics and geometry may be predicted by measuring the water surface behavior alone. Second, I will examine the dynamics of turbulent buoyant plumes, such as those that might emerge at the base of a marine-terminating glacier. I will discuss our recent work that examines the role of buoyancy in enhancing entrainment in plumes, and preliminary work that quantifies the surface expression of these buoyant plumes. BIO: Tracy Mandel is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Her research explores turbulent flow at ocean margins, with a focus on laboratory experiments. Her group is particularly interested in the surface signature of systems that have complex subsurface hydrodynamics (such as seagrass meadows and freshwater plumes) and developing simplified models that allow us to "invert" this interior behavior by measuring the free surface. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in 2012 and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2013 and 2018, and was awarded the 2018 Lorenz G. Straub Award for most meritorious doctoral dissertation in hydraulic engineering, ecohydraulics, and related fields. Prior to joining the faculty at UNH, she was a postdoctoral scholar in Physics and Applied Math at the University of California, Merced. 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 also encouraged to attend. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, SMAST, 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 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 and Fridays from 3-4pm 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
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Chat with an Undergraduate International Student from Asia - Virtual Event Location: > See description for location Contact: Admissions Description: Hear from one of our current international students from Asia about her experience studying at UMassD. Learn more about campus life, scholarship info, student employment opportunities, and undergraduate admission requirements. Participants may qualify for an application fee waiver upon Admission office's review. Link: https://apply.umassd.edu/register/?id=77c9c9aa-e599-44df-860a-e6c8491235bf Topical Areas: General Public, Undergraduate Admissions
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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
Saturday, October 29, 2022
9:00 PM - 10/30 »	The Return of Hallowhine Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Cost: Off Campus Guest - $10 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: C.V.S.A. x U.L.S. x C.S.A. are collaborating to revive Hallowhine, the scariest Halloween party in Dartmouth! ALL students are welcome, so bring your costumes and those waistlines!! On October 29th, Dj Hendrix & Dj KewKew will be spinning at Woodland Commons. Doors open at 9pm and close at 11pm. UMassD Students: Free Non-UmassD Students: $10 NO COSTUME NO ENTRY Best 3 on campus costume wins a prize! Register at linktr.ee/umassdcsa For more information reach out to the eboard members of Caribbean Student Association, United Latino Society, and the Cape Verdean Student Association! Link: linktr.ee/umassdcsa Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Students, University Community, University Marketing, Student Organizations, Conferences & Events, Student Affairs
8:00 PM - 10/30 »	Queer Halloween Costume Party Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Pride Alliance and Sapphic Society Presents Queer Halloween Costume Party! Put on your costume and join in at the Marketplace (opposite to the campus center and above FDUH) on Saturday Oct 29th at 8pm - admission is free! Free Food! For more information contact pridealliance@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Organizations
« 10/19 - 11/16 »	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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