UMass Dartmouth Event Calendar

Swim Team Information Meeting

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

Apr

14

Share the Harvest

Mental Health Week

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Off Campus
Mental Health/Wellness, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Student Affairs

Apr

14

Queer Trans BIPOC Mixer

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House
Frederick Douglass Unity House, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Affairs

Apr

14

Join the Swim & Dive team! Info meeting April 14, 4 PM, Hall of Fame Room.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hall of Fame Room (2nd Floor Tripp Athletics Building)
Student Affairs

Apr

14

Glow in the Dark Mini Golf

Mental Health Week

5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Woodland Commons
Mental Health/Wellness, Office of Student Engagement & Leadership (OSEL)

Apr

14

Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Event

The Translator's Memoir: Reflection on an Embodied Art by Elizabeth Lowe

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Ferreira-MendesPortuguese-American Archives
College of Arts and Sciences

Apr

15

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Leila Barbosa

9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

15

CNHS DNP Defense - Paul Gould, MSN, FNP-BC

Unity House (Every Wed. and Thu. 10am-2pm)

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House (*located ground floor Marketplace)
Student Affairs

Apr

15

Implementing an Educational Intervention to Improve Psychiatric-Mental health Nurse Practitioners Knowledge and Confidence in Managing Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Serious Mental Illness by Paul Gould MSN, FNP-BC

10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

15

Bella and Brownies

Mental Health Week

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2nd Floor of the Grove
Dining, Mental Health/Wellness, Student Affairs

Apr

15

Investigating Juvenile White Shark Physiology and Spatiotemporal Behavior in Potential Nurseries in the Gulf of Maine

Biology Master Thesis Proposal Defense by Clayton Nyiri

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SENG - 113
College of Arts and Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

15

Grad School of the Day: Stonehill College

Meet Stonehill College's recruiter and learn more about their grad programs!

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Library Living Room Lobby
Career Center, Student Affairs

Apr

15

Kindness Takes Flight: Pay it Forward Project

Mental Health Week

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Campus Center
Mental Health/Wellness, Counseling Center, Student Affairs

Apr

15

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Veronica Fernandes

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Lectures and Seminars, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

15

"Engaging Volunteers in Monitoring Water Quality and Cyanobacterial Blooms"

SMAST Seminar - DEOS by: Elizabeth Herron

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
SMAST East 101-103
Lectures and Seminars, SMAST, SMAST Seminar Series

Apr

15

Study Abroad Walk-in Advising

Stop by the International Programs Office to have you study abroad questions answered!

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Library 233
Study Abroad

Apr

15

Three Minute Thesis Competition - Graduate Preliminary Round

3MT2026 Three Minute Thesis Competition - Graduate Preliminary Round

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Claire T. Carney Library, Robert F. Stoico/FirstFed Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
Graduate Studies

Apr

15

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Adekitan Aderoju

Here to help students complete their FAFSA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid

Apr

15

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

15

"Assessment methods for the data-limited Jonah crab fishery evaluated with a simulation framework" by: Corinne Truesdale

SMAST Seminar - by: Corinne Truesdale

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SMAST East 101-103
Lectures and Seminars, SMAST, SMAST Seminar Series

Apr

15

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Erika Falandys

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

15

Short Circuits: electronic music in the historical archive

A look at the challenges of documenting early collaborations in avant garde electronic sound art.

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
MacLean Campus Center 007 (Blue & Gold Room)
College of Arts and Sciences

Apr

15

Stronger Than the Struggle: An Evening with Lyrical Faith

Mental Health Week

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Marketplace`
Mental Health/Wellness, Office of Student Engagement & Leadership (OSEL), Student Affairs

Apr

16

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May

09

Art and Design Studios MFA Thesis Exhibition

Exhibition

Art and Design Studios
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Apr

16

Crumbl Into Wellness Fair

Unity House (Every Wed. and Thu. 10am-2pm)

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House (*located ground floor Marketplace)
Student Affairs

Apr

16

Barn Babies

Mental Health Week

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Grove Drum Lounge
Mental Health/Wellness, Counseling Center, Student Affairs

Apr

16

Mental Health Week

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2nd Floor Grove
Mental Health/Wellness, Student Affairs

Apr

16

Employer of the Day: Daniel Dennis & Co, LLP

Calling all accounting/finance majors! Daniel Dennis & Co, LLP is hiring!

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Library Living Room Lobby
Career Center, Student Affairs

Apr

16

Feeding and Aerial Behavior variation in Humpback Whales (Megaptera Novaeangliae) In the Southern Gulf of Maine feeding ground

Biology PhD Dissertation Defense: Integrative Biology by Eman Khwaja

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
SENG - 109
College of Arts and Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

16

Author Book Talk: Land of the Black Squirrels by Mwalim

Excerpt readings from the novel Land of the Black Squirrels and conversation with author

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House
Black History 4 Seasons, Frederick Douglass Unity House

Apr

16

Land of the Black Squirrels: A Bronx Boheme Novel

A Reading & Discussion

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House
Black History 4 Seasons, Office of Civil Rights

Apr

16

Three Minute Thesis Competition - Grand Finale

3MT2026 Three Minute Thesis Competition - Grand Finale

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Claire T. Carney Library, Robert F. Stoico/FirstFed Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
Graduate Studies

Apr

16

Mechanical Engineering (MNE Seminar) by Rafid Enayet and Saima Ahmed Suhi

Seminar presentation by Mechanical Engineering MS students regarding their research.

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
SENG-116 (Mechanical Engineering Department Conference Room)
College of Engineering, Lectures and Seminars

Apr

16

Explore Global Flavors: Cape Verde

CVSA Dinner in The Grove

4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Grove
Dining

Apr

16

Crowned in Strength: A Paper Flower Crown-Making Workshop Honoring Survivors

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Campus Center Conference Room
Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Affairs

Apr

17

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May

14

Hatch Street Studios MFA Thesis Exhibition

Exhibition

Hatch Street Studios (Studio 215)
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Apr

17

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Jaime Cathers

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

17

ELEE Oral Comprehensive Exam for Doctoral Candidacy by Jin Feng Lin

ELEE Oral Comprehensive Exam for Doctoral Candidacy - ECE

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

17

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Yaa Brago

Here to help students complete their FAFSA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid

Apr

17

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

18

Hatch Street Studios MFA Thesis Exhibition

Opening Reception

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hatch Street Studios (Studio 215)
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Apr

18

Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Field
College of Engineering

Apr

21

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Kimberly Lester

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

21

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense by Angel Rose Thomas

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

Apr

21

Single-Particle Investigation of Plasmon-coupled Circular Dichroism and Chiral Plexcitons

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
SENG-311/VIRTUAL
College of Arts and Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

22

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Oyenike Ogunmekan, PMHN

Unity House (Every Wed. and Thu. 10am-2pm)

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House (*located ground floor Marketplace)
Student Affairs

Apr

22

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

22

Earth Day

Earth Day Lunch and Dinner in The Grove

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
The Grove
Dining

Apr

22

Bridging High-Dimensional Robust Statistics and Non-Convex Optimization

Talk by Dr. Yu Cheng (Assistant Professor @Brown CS)

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
DION 311
Academic Affairs, Academic Resource Center, Alumni Event, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Graduate Studies, Lectures and Seminars

Apr

22

Study Abroad Walk-in Advising

Stop by the International Programs Office to have you study abroad questions answered!

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Library 233
Study Abroad

Apr

22

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Michelle Martinis, MSN,RN,AGACNP-BC, CWCN-AP

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

22

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Stephanie Bettencourt

Here to help students complete their FAFSA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid

Apr

22

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

22

Bridging the Disciplines - Wonder Woman: Bondage and Liberation

A talk that addresses the weird prevalence of bondage imagery in the old Wonder Woman comics

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Marketplace
College of Arts and Sciences

Apr

22

Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced: A UMassD Civil Rights trip to Alabama

Reflections on Honors College class trip to visit key sites & meet veterans of the Freedom Movement

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
MacLean Campus Center 007 (Blue & Gold Room)
College of Arts and Sciences

Apr

23

Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Raksha Mohan

Unity House (Every Wed. and Thu. 10am-2pm)

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Unity House (*located ground floor Marketplace)
Student Affairs

Apr

23

Think Before You Drink

The Intoxication and Substance Use Awareness Program

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2nd Floor of the Grove
Student Affairs

Apr

23

Data Science MS Thesis Defense

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SENG 311
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

23

Back When We Were A Community

A historical overview of traditions of community organizing, mutual aid, collective care!

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Main Branch Library
Black History 4 Seasons, Office of Civil Rights

Apr

23

JUPE BOX JAZZ

Senior Recital for Nicholas Jupin

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
CVPA
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Apr

24

PhD Dissertation Defense by Aneeka Ehsan Cheema

On White Privilege: Arts in Education in Postcolonial Pakistan by Aneeka Ehsan Cheema

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CVPA 107
College of Arts and Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

24

College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Portia Adjei Donker

Here to help students complete their FAFSA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid

Apr

24

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ZOOM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

24

Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Field
College of Engineering

Apr

25

Light + Fashion

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

Apr

25

Walks For Wishes

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

Apr

27

"Handling uncertainty in fisheries management: Developing tools in support of Management Strategy Evaluation" presented by Amanda R. Hart

DFO PhD Dissertation Defense presented by Amanda R. Hart

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
SMAST East 101-103
SMAST, Thesis/Dissertations

Apr

27

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

Apr

27

Leduc Center for Civic Engagement Celebration of Service

Celebration of Service

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Claire T. Carney Library Grand Reading Room
Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Student Affairs

Apr

28

EAS Doctoral Proposal Defense by Vrutant Vikasbhai Mehta

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

Apr

28

Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Adithi Madduluri

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

Apr

29

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

Apr

29

"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

Apr

29

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

Apr

29

Study Abroad Walk-in Advising

Stop by the International Programs Office to have you study abroad questions answered!

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Library 233
Study Abroad

Apr

29

DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: Beyond the observer's gaze

Here to help students complete their FAFSA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid

Apr

30

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

May

01

"Optical Characterization of Particle Size Distributions and Their Relationship to Phytoplankton Pigment Composition in the Northern Gulf of Mexico" by Kara Falvey

DEOS MS Thesis Defense by Kara Falvey

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
SMAST 101-103
SMAST, Thesis/Dissertations

May

01

Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House

Here to help students complete their FAFSA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SENG 109
Financial Aid

May

02

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Field
College of Engineering

May

05

Summit Financial Reporting 101

Overview of the Department Management Dashboard

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Zoom
Training

May

05

Cookies & Condoms

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
Women's and Gender Studies, Student Affairs

May

05

EAS Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Guancheng Zhou

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

May

06

Towards Diagnosis, Fairness, and interpretation of Machine Learning Algorithms

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
LIB 314
College of Engineering, Thesis/Dissertations

May

06

PeopleSoft Financial Reporting and Budget Inquiry Training

Overview of PeopleSoft Financial Reports and Budget Inquiry for Budget tracking and reconciliation

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Zoom
Training

May

06