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Friday, April 24, 2015
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm
The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015.
Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang
University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
- Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1
Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM
Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM
Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred.
The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM.
The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition.
The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming.
We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)"
Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org.
Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
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Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Matthew R. Bach
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: The Mechanical Engineering Department is pleased to announce the MS THESIS DEFENSE of Mr. Matthew R. Bach
April 24, 2015
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
TOPIC:
FABRICATION AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL SANDWICH COMPOSITES
ABSTRACT:
This study examined the flexural and impact properties of natural biodegradable sandwich composites. Sandwich composites consisted of mushroom foam (core material), hard woods (skin layers), and a natural glue (adhesive layer). Mass density and compression testing were conducted to determine the mechanical properties of four different foams. Results indicated that the medium density mushroom foam was the more optimal choice because there were no significant difference in compression properties and it had a better machinability. There were 4 variables that were used for the sandwich composites which were all associated with the skin layer selection; no wood, 1/16 inch hickory, 1/8 inch white oak and 1/8 inch hickory. The sandwich composite with the hickory wood performed the best, (0.255 MPa), which corresponded with previous work because hickory has a higher modulus of elasticity. The flexural energy was also calculated from the 3 point bending yielding the hickory absorbing more than the other sample types as well, absorbing the most energy (44.5 J). The high strain rate impact loading was conducted at two different velocities by using a gas gun assembly. At low impact velocities, no significant difference in the impact energy for different sandwich composites was noticed. However for the higher impact velocities, the hickory absorbed more than the white oak (99.9 J to 78.0 J).
ADVISOR:
Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Dr. Vijaya Chalivendra, Dr. John Rice,
Dr. Sherif D. El Wakil
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: University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: April 9-29, 2015
2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-3 PM
Location: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!
608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
508.961.3072, www.newbedfordart.org
Admission: Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members & Children under 16 free. Free for exhibiting artists and their guests.
Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-9 PM
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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Southcoast eCommerce 2015 Conference
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: General Public $35; UMass Students, faclty and Staff $20
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Claire T. Carney Library, First Fed Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Link: www.Umassd.edu/ecommerce/events
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, _Charlton College of Business, Decision and Information Science, MBA or Graduate, Management and Marketing, Claire T. Carney Library, Faculty Development, Conferences & Events
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