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Corsair Chats: Photojournalism today with Peter Pereira '92

Award-winning photographer and photojournalist Peter Pereira '92 discusses the role of photojournalism in telling the stories behind current events. As the field photojournalism evolved over the years and media outlets grew to include social media platforms, Pereira will speak on how the news is presented through photography, and how that informs our understanding. He will also share his work from 2020, including coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, the pandemic, and more. Register at: https://umassd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tOs3Z-bRSeuOg7xGO0_xZg

Frederick Douglass Unity House Poetry Night (Virtual Event)

Join UMassD students as they share their poetry and spoken word. Register via Zoom. Contact: Dr. LaSella L. Hall (lhall1@umassd.edu) Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Unity House & BH4S

Black In Business: HERstory (Virtual Event)

Celebrate Black female role models as they lead discussions on business and more. Register at BuyBlackNB. Contact: Dr. Justina Perry (buyblacknb@gmail.com) Sponsored by BuyBlackNB & the New Bedford Historical Society

Joint MNE and EAS Seminar by Siddhant Kerhalkar & Iury Simoes-Sousa, 2/26/21

Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering and Applied Sciences (EAS) SEMINAR DATE: February 26, 2021 TIME: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. LOCATION: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97680493591 (Passcode: 500) SPEAKER: Siddhant (Sid) Kerhalkar and Iury T. Simoes-Sousa PhD student, SMAST and PhD Student, EAS program (respectively) TOPIC: Monsoons in the Bay of Bengal (Sid) and Ocean Spring Blooms (Iury) ABSTRACT: Topics in Oceanography and Climate Sciences have significant impact on society. They are highly interdisciplinary fields with applications of the different engineering or scientific fields, with many relevant concepts related to Mechanical Engineering: Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Applied Mathematics. In this seminar we will cover various aspects of Oceanography and its impacts on our daily lives, including how the scientists and engineers make observations to improve our knowledge of the ocean and climate processes for better prediction. Sid will present his research on understanding the Sea surface Temperature in the Bay of Bengal and the phenomenon of Monsoons. Monsoons over the Indian Subcontinent bring in the much-needed rain to the Indian Subcontinent during the months of June to November. They are important to study as the Indian subcontinent has the highest per capita impact of oceanic influence and heavily rely on such rainfall for their agriculture and economy. Errors in forecasting the monsoons affect the accuracy of weekly and sub-seasonal forecasts around the world, including New England. Sid will end his talk with explaining his efforts for this bigger goal. Iury's talk focus on the impact of the so-called submesoscale vortices for the spring blooms in the ocean. Analogous to the springtime on land, the ocean plants (mostly phytoplankton) peak their productivity in early spring, mainly due to increase in available sunshine and water stratification. This is one of the most important processes for carbon cycle, with crucial implications on Climate Change. While most of the classic studies have investigated the ocean spring bloom while ignoring ocean currents, recent studies show that small submesoscale vortices play an important role in determining the strength and timing of springtime blooms. BIO: Sid is a second year PhD student in the Intercampus Marine Science (IMS) Program at SMAST, UMass Dartmouth. Prior to starting his PhD journey, he completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar (India), majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His research currently focuses on understanding the coupling between the atmosphere and oceans in context of Monsoons in Bay of Bengal using observations and numerical models. He is also an avid follower of Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes. After completing MS in Physical Oceanography at University of So Paulo (USP), Iury is now a second year PhD student in the Engineering and Applied Sciences program at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The main topic of his thesis is the biophysical interaction of submesoscale eddies and the role of submesoscale processes in the generation and propagation of ocean inertia-gravity waves. He is also an avid Pythonist and loves playing accordion in his free time. Both Sid and Iury are PhD advisees of Prof. Amit Tandon of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMassD. For more information please contact Dr. Caiwei Shen, MNE Seminar Coordinator (cshen2@umassd.edu). All are welcome. Students taking MNE-500 are REQUIRED to attend!! All other MNE BS and MS students are encouraged to attend. EAS students are also encouraged to attend. Thank you, Sue Cunha scunha@umassd.edu

Qualtrics Branching

This is an intermediate Qualtrics workshop that explores different means of skipping or repeating questions in a survey. Topics covered include skip logic, display logic, blocks and block branching, as well as loop and merge. Previous survey experience equivalent to the Getting Started with Qualtrics workshop is required. This workshop will take place via Zoom teleconference. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registered participants via email the morning of the workshop. For more information about Zoom, visit http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/zoom . For more information about this workshop, contact Rich Legault at 508-999-8799 or email rlegault@umassd.edu.

Italian Film Series: We Have a Pope (2011)

Italian Film Series: We Have a Pope" [Habemus Papam] (2011) Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Time: 7:00 PM Place: Zoom Please email Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu for the Zoom link. Description: Join us for our 6th Annual Italian Film Series at UMass Dartmouth, co-sponsored by the Foreign Literature and Languages Department and the History Department. Italian culture has always been profoundly influenced by Catholicism and by the presence of the Holy See in Rome. For centuries, Italian writers and artists have explored the way religion is woven into the lives of ordinary people and the way their religious experiences are often contested by different sources of authority - confessor and father, priest and prophet, bishop and revolutionary. Our films this semester explore the complexity of religious experience and the role of the Italian church in a variety of historical epochs: the Middle Ages, the Risorgimento (Unification), and the Dopoguerra (post-WWII). Our next film, We Have a Pope" [Habemus Papam] (2011) is [a] comic and fictional exploration of the emotional struggles of a newly-elected pope coming to terms with the demands of his position" (Amazon Prime). All films have English subtitles. Got questions? Want to join our mailing list? Contact: Prof. Rose Facchini - rose.facchini@umassd.edu

Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session

A virtual information session on the graduate business programs at UMass Dartmouth. This event will include information on the following programs: - MBA - MS Accounting - MS Finance - MS Healthcare Management - MS Technology Management This is a virtual zoom event designed to answer questions you may have about the various degree and certificate programs.

Tips for Hosting Zoom Meetings

This workshop is intended for Zoom users who already know the basics and are ready to learn more. Topics covered include adding a profile picture, using virtual backgrounds, enabling recoding, downloading recorded meetings, creating a custom personal meeting ID, polling, breakout rooms, and using Zoom's security features. Be sure to bring any questions you may have about Zoom! This workshop will take place via Zoom teleconference. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registered participants via email the morning of the workshop. For more information about Zoom, visit http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/zoom . For more information about this workshop, contact Rich Legault at 508-999-8799 or email rlegault@umassd.edu.

Dear Alexandra, Letters and Pictures From a Box | Exhibition by Alexandra Broches at Star Store Campus

Alexandra Broches: Dear Alexandra, Letters and Pictures From a Box Location: University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, New Bedford Exhibition Dates: February 11 - March 11, 2021 Gallery Hours: 10 am to 6 pm Closing Reception: AHA! Night, Thursday March 11, 2021 from 6 to 8 pm as a part of #CVPAstarSeries event viewable from outside of the Star Store on the corner of Purchase and Union Streets UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery at Star Store Campus proudly presents an exhibition by artist and photographer, Alexandra Broches, entitled Dear Alexandra, Letters and Pictures From a Box. For the exhibition, Broches combines photographic family portraits of and letters from many of her relatives some of whom would soon be lost in the Holocaust. Written in Dutch, the handwritten and typed correspondence allows her and us to view family members through patient reading and translation. The story begins in 1939, when her newly married parents left the Netherlands for New York, leaving the family behind. Soon after their departure, the situation in Europe began to worsen, leading eventually to the Holocaust and WWII. While too often conversations about the Holocaust reduces its victims to platitudes and statistics, here, the stories told by Broches are alive through both the ordinary and the horrifying; letters about musical events, birthdays, thwarted travel, the procurement of fake documents, escapes by boat, incarceration and ultimately Auschwitz. Alexandra Broches' exhibition is ultimately the story of morality, both lost and enduring and of the stubborn hold nationalism and racism still has on our world today. Alexandra Broches is the first-generation daughter of Dutch Jewish parents who arrived in New York in 1939. Her life has been shaped in many ways by being the daughter of a father who lost his family in the Holocaust. When asked how long she has been working on Letters and Pictures from a Box, she explained, "In a way, there are two answers; for the last three years, and secondly, probably my whole life." In an earlier series, Markings of Loss, Traces of Presence (2001-2002) that combined Broches' childhood drawings juxtaposed to recent photographs, she created fresh contextual layers of meaning in works about time, place and identity. Curatorial projects in 2004 and 2005 (Memory, Identity and Place and Sites of Memory and Honor) proved to be precursors to the project Letters and Pictures from a Box. Through this project Broches continues to use a family narrative to reflect upon who she is and where she comes from. Broches lives and maintains her studio in Wakefield, Rhode Island. She is a founding member of Hera Gallery/Hera Educational Foundation one of the earliest women's cooperative galleries in the U.S. and a pioneer in the development of alternative exhibition spaces across the country in the 1970s. Broches represented the gallery on a panel sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art at the NGO Forum on Women of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. As a result of this meeting, Hera Gallery participated in an exchange exhibition, Through Australian Women's Eyes, organized by SWAN (School of Women Artist's Network) and Hera Sojourns: Visions from North America at the University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong, Australia. She has exhibited her work nationally and regionally in The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC; PhotoSpiva, Joplin, MO, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA, Newport Art Museum, and Providence Center for Photographic Arts, the Providence Art Club, and Chazan Gallery at Wheeler School, RI. Recently her photographs were shown in the Jamestown Arts Center in two exhibitions, 5th Decade: Hera Gallery and WORD: Text in Contemporary Art. Broches has an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College, an MA in Art History from Hunter College and a BA from Bennington College. She was a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2008 and 2005 and received the RISCA Fellowship in Photography Merit Award in 2017. She has taught at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, and the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. Her work can be seen at www.alexandrabroches.com. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and Exhibition Curator gallery@umassd.edu Visitors outside of UMass Dartmouth community need to reserve their free timed ticket www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries

Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session

A virtual information session on the graduate business programs at UMass Dartmouth. This event will include information on the following programs: - MBA - MS Accounting - MS Finance - MS Healthcare Management - MS Technology Management This is a virtual zoom event designed to answer questions you may have about the various degree and certificate programs.

Getting Started with Qualtrics

UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their own surveys. Students may also use Qualtrics under the direction of a Faculty or Staff member. This workshop covers the authoring and administration of surveys, as well as data collection. Question types are covered in detail. No previous survey experience is necessary. Note that access to Qualtrics is managed by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Please contact Jonathan Bonilla at JBonilla1@umassd.edu at least three business days prior to this workshop to request access. Students must have a Faculty or Staff advisor request access on their behalf. This workshop will take place via Zoom teleconference. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registered participants via email the morning of the workshop. For more information about Zoom, visit http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/zoom . For more information about this workshop, contact Rich Legault at 508-999-8799 or email rlegault@umassd.edu.

Qualtrics Branching

This is an intermediate Qualtrics workshop that explores different means of skipping or repeating questions in a survey. Topics covered include skip logic, display logic, blocks and block branching, as well as loop and merge. Previous survey experience equivalent to the Getting Started with Qualtrics workshop is required. This workshop will take place via Zoom teleconference. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registered participants via email the morning of the workshop. For more information about Zoom, visit http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/zoom . For more information about this workshop, contact Rich Legault at 508-999-8799 or email rlegault@umassd.edu.