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Class of 2026 Student Commencement Speakers announced

Sam Riley, Eman Khwaja, Angel Pelissari, and Paul Riley to discuss drive, growth, and success to the crowd

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2026 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching Winner Announced

A 30-year champion of active, student-centered engineering education earns system-wide recognition

4 student speaker headshots aligned in a row
Class of 2026 Student Commencement Speakers announced

Sam Riley, Eman Khwaja, Angel Pelissari, and Paul Riley to discuss drive, growth, and success to the crowd

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Inside UMassD April 23, 2026

Campus Community Accomplishments

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Inside UMassD April 16, 2026

Campus Community Accomplishments

Best Business Schools for Management 2026 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Charlton College of Business named a best MBA for Management

Charlton's MBA ranks second-highest among Massachusetts publics for management

Mock Trial semifinalists pictured with Hon. Joseph P. Harrington, First Justice (center) and their coaches. Photo courtesy Kristina Besse
UMass Law hosts inaugural in-house trial competition, showcasing student advocacy skills

Three-day event brings together students and prominent SouthCoast legal leaders for hands-on courtroom experience

Best Graduate Schools for Fine Arts 2026 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
College of Visual & Performing Arts ranks among top 60 MFA programs in the U.S.

U.S. News & World Report ranks CVPA MFA programs among top 29% in the nation

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Portrait of Philip Scher
Meet Dean Philip Scher
Philip Scher aims to further interdisciplinarity in the College of Arts and Sciences
Physics major and hockey player Graham Burke '26
Graham Burke '26: Breaking the mold
Physics researcher and hockey goalie Graham Burke ’26 proves you don’t have to choose between intellectual curiosity and athletic ambition.
Antonella Goncalves in the campus center
Antonella Goncalves '26: The power of positivity
Nursing major and soccer captain finds research inspiration through overcoming ACL injury
Eman Khwaja standing on a boat with a whale surfacing in the background
Eman Khwaja ‘26: Diversifying STEM through whale TikToks
Integrative biology PhD student shares her humpback whale research on social media while completing National Science Foundation Fellowship
Mechanical engineering student Ryan Masoud portrait
Ryan Masoud '26: Built to do more
At UMass Dartmouth, Ryan Masoud built a future for himself from the ground up
Kol Tavares standing in the library with their hands in their pockets.
Students create their own majors through the multidisciplinary studies program
Rachel Montrose ‘26 and Kol Tavares ‘27 designed personalized majors to help achieve their academic and career goals
Aubrey Fazzone '26 standing in the nursing simulation lab wearing scrubs
Aubrey Fazzone '26: Passion for cancer patient care
Nursing student completes Flynn Oncology Fellowship at Yale Hospital and discovers calling for patient interactions and cancer care
Anna Klobucka
Professor Emerita of Portuguese Anna Klobucka honored at Oxford University tribute symposium
Scholars gathered to celebrate Klobucka’s research and contributions to Lusophone studies at colloquium held in her honor
Physics major Tyler Carlson headshot
Tyler Carlson '25, '26: Machine learning among the stars
The first student to use the Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory for research after its grand reopening is using machine learning to analyze stars and identify potential planets outside our solar system.

Events

Apr
29
9:00AM
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
Apr
29
10:00AM
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
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
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
Apr
29
1:00PM
Denim Day Photo Booth
Wear denim to support sexual assault survivors
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.
Apr
30
12:00PM
Veterans Grub 'N Go
An end-of-semester gathering with food and friendship!
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
May
1
10:00AM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Immer Mowry Cook
Found and Made: Ceramics in Integrated Compositional Systems
May
1
11:00AM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Yaren Yildiz
Layering, Pressure, and Density as Material Strategies for Articulating the Body as Visceral
May
1
11:15AM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by: Allison Morones
Wild Cactus: an original puppet show about the American southwest
May
1
12:00PM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Alison Bergman
Layered Explorations:  Weaving a World of Wonder
May
1
2:00PM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by: Arghavan Booyeh
Woven Courage
May
1
2:00PM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Maya August Palmer
Microlandscapes and the Ordinary: An Exploration in Space and Belonging
May
1
3:30PM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Mitra Ponthan
Narrating Instability: Hypertext and the Fragmented Self
May
1
4:30PM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Sarah Valinezhad
The Women of Pomegranate Garden: Visual Expressions of Memory, Womanhood, and Resistance
May
5
11:00AM
Mechanical Engineering / Industrial Systems Engineering MS Project Presentation by Myriam Iralien
Floating System for Microplastic Removal: Design and Feasibility Analysis
May
5
10:00AM
Cookies & Condoms
Cookies & Condoms
May
5
5:00PM
Thesis defense: "Designing for the Future"
Mackenzie Berlinguet MPWC Thesis project defense
May
5
5:00PM
Carter Thesis Defense: "Accessibility Gaps & Overlaps in College-Level Writing Assignment Composition"
Tameron Carter MPWC Thesis defense.
May
5
5:00PM
O'Meara Thesis Defense: "Communication Strategies in Early Childhood Education"
Bridget O'Meara MPWC thesis defense presentation.
May
6
11:00AM
CPE Master of Science Thesis Defense by Brent Rubell - ECE Department
CPE Master of Science Thesis Defense - ECE Department
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
May
6
1:00PM
Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Anudeep Davuluru
Quark Confinement from Generalized SU(3) and Holographic Models under Constraints
May
6
12:30PM
Melissa Cieto - STEM Education Dissertation Defense
Title: Stories of Synergy
May
6
2:45PM
Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Chackochan Joji
Pathway to Type Iax Supernovae: 3D Hydrodynamical Sim. of Oxygen-Neon and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs
May
7
9:30AM
Finding Malfunctions in UAV’s Physical Sensors using Reinforcement Learning; Sensor Fusion v. Raw Data
CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Margaret Battersby
May
7
9:30AM
Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Chackochan Joji
Pathway to Type Iax Supernovae: 3D Hydrodynamical Sim. of Oxygen-Neon and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf
May
7
9:30AM
Tree based gravity solver for 3D hydrodynamical simulations of binary white dwarfs merger type Ia supernovae
Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Slevin Christian
May
7
11:00AM
Physics Master of Science Project Presentation by Bhaskar Verma
Rapid Quality Assessment of Gravitational-Wave Glitch Reconstruction Using Machine Learning
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
May
8
12:00PM
Biology PhD Dissertation Defense by Carolina C. Ganci
Learning, Memory and Brain activation patterns in wild white-footed mice
May
8
1:30PM
Surrogate Modeling of Atlantis: Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting and Forecasting Biomass
DSC Master's Thesis Defense by Vishnu Selvaraj
May
11
10:00AM
Benchmarking of Memory Fragmentation Metrics on Real Allocation Traces
CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Andrew Bajumpaa
May
11
4:00PM
Emulating Marine Ecosystem Dynamics: A Machine Learning Approach For Biomass Prediction And Forecasting
DSC Master's Thesis Defense by Ajmal Abbas
May
13
11:00AM
BMEBT MS Thesis defense by Shrimathi Venugopalakrishnan
Evaluation of extracellular vesicles released by 3D spheroids and 2D conventional cell culture of the SKOV3 ovarian cancer cell line by Shrimathi Venugopalakrishnan
May
13
12:00PM
Biology Master Thesis Defense by Sharon Jacob
Motility Restoration in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 in Response to Environmental Signals
May
13
12:00PM
Biology MS Thesis Defense by Sharon Jacob
Motility Restoration in Pseudomonas fluorescens in Response to Environmental Signals by Sharon Jacob
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
May
14
10:00AM
Mechanical Engineering MS Project Presentation by Mr. Joshua Letizia
Research and Development of a Reengineering Plan for an Aluminum Extrusion Facilty
May
14
12:00PM
Masters thesis defense by Aiden Morgado
Heterologous Expression of Chitinolytic Genes in C. necator for Chitin utilization by Aiden Morgado
May
14
3:00PM
Lavender Celebration
Are you a queer student graduating this May? Join us for Lavender Celebration
May
16
9:00AM
ALANA Celebration and Kente Stole Presentation
This event culminates with the presentation of traditional Ghanaian Kente cloth graduation stoles.
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
May
21
10:00AM
Undergraduate & Graduate Student Commencement Ceremony I
Ceremony for SMAST, Engineering, & CCB
May
22
10:00AM
Undergraduate & Graduate Student Commencement Ceremony II
Ceremony for CVPA, CNHS, & CAS
May
22
3:30PM
School of Law Commencement Ceremony
All Law students
May
28
7:00PM
UMass Dartmouth Scientist Stories: A Live Storytelling Event
Live event connecting early-career scientists with the community through storytelling
Launch UMassD events calendar