Events Apr 25 Apr 25 9:00AM Walks For Wishes A 2.9 mile walk around campus to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation Campus Center Apr 29 Apr 29 12:30PM SMAST DEOS Seminar: "Coastal Cities: Managing Urban Impacts Below the Waterline" by Katherine Dafforn April 29, 2026 - SMAST DEOS Seminar: "Coastal Cities: Managing Urban Impacts Below the Waterline" by Katherine Dafforn SMAST East 101-103 Apr 29 Apr 29 3:00PM SMAST Seminar - DFO "Novel Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture Projects in the Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, and the Northern Mariana Islands" by Michael Chambers SMAST Seminar - DFO -April 29, 2026 by: Michael Chambers SMAST East 101-103 Apr 29 Apr 29 5:00PM 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! CVPA 153 Apr 30 Apr 30 1:00PM DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: Beyond the observer's gaze 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. SMAST East 102-103 Apr 30 Apr 30 3:30PM Operation Pineapple Express: The daring rescue of stranded Afghan partners at the close of America's War on Terror Green Beret veteran Scott Mann recounts the US Special Forces rescue of abandoned Afghan allies CVPA 153 May 5 May 5 10:00AM Cookies & Condoms Cookies & Condoms Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality May 6 May 6 1:30PM Joint Data and Computational Science Seminar Series: Graph-theoretic properties of mitochondrial tubular networks Talk by Professor Gary Davis of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth TXT105A May 6 May 6 12:30PM Melissa Cieto - STEM Education Dissertation Defense Title: Stories of Synergy CCB 115 May 8 May 8 10:00AM DFO MS Thesis Defense: Sink or Source? by Andie Painten DFO MS Thesis Defense "Sink or Source? The attraction versus production theory at an offshore wind farm using black sea bass as a case study" by Andie Painten SMAST East 101-103 May 8 May 8 12:00PM Biology PhD Dissertation Defense by Carolina C. Ganci Learning, Memory and Brain activation patterns in wild white-footed mice SENG Bldg., Room# 305 May 13 May 13 12:00PM Biology Master Thesis Defense by Sharon Jacob Motility Restoration in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 in Response to Environmental Signals SENG-118 May 14 May 14 10:00AM The Cascading Effects of Predation Risk in the Wild: How the Gut Microbiome Mediates the Adaptive Fear Response Biology PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense by Samuel B. Sonnega CCB-340 May 18 May 18 11:00AM DEOS PhD Dissertation Defense: "Waves and Vortices in the Ocean - From Theory to Practice" by Bailey Remy DEOS PhD Dissertation Defense by Bailey Remy SMAST East 101-103 May 21 May 21 4:00PM Doctoral Commencement Ceremony All doctoral students from all schools and colleges (excluding Law students) Main Auditorium May 22 May 22 10:00AM Undergraduate & Graduate Student Commencement Ceremony II Ceremony for CVPA, CNHS, & CAS Cressy Field Load More See all events