UMass Dartmouth Event Calendar
Exhibition
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
New Bedford Art Museum MFA Thesis Exhibtion
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Exhibition
Art and Design Studios
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Exhibition
Hatch Street Studios (Studio 215)
College of Visual and Performing Arts
A night of fashion on the runway followed by Illuminance, a festival of lights
6:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Campus Center Theater
College of Visual and Performing Arts
A 2.9 mile walk around campus to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Campus Center
College of Arts and Sciences
Design Show
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
MacLean Campus Center
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Cultural Performances
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Marketplace
International Students and Scholars Center, Office of Student Engagement & Leadership (OSEL), Student Affairs
DFO PhD Dissertation Defense presented by Amanda R. Hart
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
SMAST East 101-103
SMAST, Thesis/Dissertations
Unsupervised Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection for Storm Formation Using Onboard Time-Series Data
CIS Master’s Thesis Defense by Snehashish Srivastava
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Dion 311
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations
CSEC jointly with COE National Cybersecurity Center & ECE Seminar. Speaker: John Petrozzelli, Director, MassCyberCenter, Boston, MA
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 222
College of Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
Celebration of Service
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Claire T. Carney Library Grand Reading Room
Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Student Affairs
The Astrophysics of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Merger Type Ia Supernovae
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
TXT 105
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations
Stop by to have your study abroad questions answered!
3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Zoom; Contact intl_programs@umassd.edu for link
Study Abroad
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Jonadab Erhahon, MSN, RN, PMHNP
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Jonadab Erhahon, MSN, RN, PMHNP
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Zoom
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - David Heeps, BS, ADN, RN
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - David Heeps, BS, ADN, RN
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Zoom
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations
"Evaluating the Impact of Data Drift on Deep Learning Models for Bitcoin Price Forecasting"
Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Adithi Madduluri
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
via Zoom: please contact Adithi Madduluri (amadduluri@umassd.edu) or Dr. Yan (dyan@umassd.edu) for the zoom link and passcode
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations
Evaluating the impact of data drift on deep learning models for bitcoin price forecasting
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Virtual
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations
April 29, 2026 - SMAST DEOS Seminar: "Coastal Cities: Managing Urban Impacts Below the Waterline" by Katherine Dafforn
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
SMAST East 101-103
College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Graduate Studies, Lectures and Seminars, SMAST, SMAST Seminar Series, STEM
Wear denim to support sexual assault survivors
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Campus Center
Office of Student Engagement & Leadership (OSEL), Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Affairs
ELEE Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam by Temegni Ulrich Bertaud
ELEE Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam by Temegni Ulrich Bertaud
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations
Stop by the International Programs Office to have you study abroad questions answered!
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Library 233
Study Abroad
Here to help students complete their FAFSA
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid
APEX Project Presentation
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Marketplace
Honors College
SMAST Seminar - DFO -April 29, 2026 by: Michael Chambers
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SMAST East 101-103
College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Lectures and Seminars, SMAST, SMAST Seminar Series, STEM
Screening of Lost in Translation – In/Between Worlds: Expressions of Displacement in Global Cinema
Screening of Lost in Translation followed by a Conversation. Pizza will be provided!
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
CVPA 153
College of Arts and Sciences
An end-of-semester gathering with food and friendship!
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Campus Center
Student Affairs
DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: "Beyond the observer's gaze: an integrated approach to detection, estimation, and mitigation of observer and deployment effects in fisheries monitoring" presented by Debra Duarte.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SMAST East 102-103
College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Graduate Studies, Lectures and Seminars, SMAST, STEM, Thesis/Dissertations
Green Beret veteran Scott Mann recounts the US Special Forces rescue of abandoned Afghan allies
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
CVPA 153
College of Arts and Sciences, Lectures and Seminars
Found and Made: Ceramics in Integrated Compositional Systems
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
UMass Dartmouth Art & Design Studio
College of Visual and Performing Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations
Layering, Pressure, and Density as Material Strategies for Articulating the Body as Visceral
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UMass Dartmouth CVPA Art & Design Studio
College of Visual and Performing Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations