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When Ty Law took the stage at the UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research Celebrity/Scholarship Dinner, the first thing he said was that he would like to donate $5,000 to the Center’s scholarship program. It was clear from his inspiring remarks that followed, that he understood the value of education and the difficulty of trying to obtain one for many young people who lacked the means or support. He made the donation in the name of his new business, Launch, a trampoline park in Warwick, RI.

The UMass Dartmouth Career Expo 2013 is next Wednesday, April 17. The expo is open to all UMass Dartmouth students and alumni. This is UMass Dartmouth’s biggest career event of the year. Recruiters from diverse industries will offer full-time professional opportunities, internships and part-time jobs. Students and alumni from all colleges and all majors are encouraged to attend. Please join the staff of the Career Development Center at the Tripp Athletic Center from 10 AM-3 PM. Bring plenty of resumes, dress professionally, and be prepared for an on-the-spot interview! For a list of participating recruiters, please see our website: http://www.umassd.edu/career/newsevents/ For further information, please contact David LePage, Assistant Director at 508.999.8629 or dlepage1@umassd.edu.

The David Bindman Ensemble will be in residence at UMASS Dartmouth during the week of April 1-6. The group will participate in a diverse range of activities, including classes, concerts, and collaborations with students and members of the community.

The ensemble performs original compositions by the saxophonist/leader. Many of these works are expansive narrative suites that explore rich layers of rhythmic and harmonic complexity, adapting elements from world music traditions, and drawing on the improvisational voices of the group’s members.

Dartmouth, MA. The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, in partnership with the departments of Portuguese, English and History, announces the 20th Annual Summer Program in Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth, June 24 – July 26, 2013. Situated in the heart of North America’s oldest and largest Portuguese-speaking community, our program provides a unique cultural environment for learning Portuguese in a richly varied natural immersion setting.

North Dartmouth, MA.  The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, in collaboration with the Center for Arts and Ideas at UMass Lowell, announce a book talk by novelist Anthony Barcellos scheduled for Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. in the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, parking lot 13. Free and open to the public.

 

The Claire T. Carney Library Associates annual Literary Author Talk entitled, Mystery in the Afternoon: Three Famous Writers Share Their Secrets, hosted by Prof. Mel B. Yoken is March 10 from 2-4:30 p.m. at Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth.

Cook and author of ten cookbooks will give a demonstration and talk

Joan Nathan, the celebrated cook and author of ten cookbooks is guest speaker of an event sponsored by the UMass Dartmouth Boivin Center of French Language and Culture. Ms. Nathan will give a talk and demonstration entitled, "My Gastronomic French Journey," on November 19 at 7:45 at the UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd., Dining Commons, second floor.

The University of Massachusetts Claire T. Carney Library Associates are proud to announce the following programs for the fall semester. The prolific, highly popular writer, Jon Land, will talk on his literary work on October 3, and the distinguished, Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Debby Applegate, will speak on Henry Ward Beecher: The Most Famous Man in America on December 3. Chancellor Professor Emeritus Mel B. Yoken, program chair of the Library Associates, will host the two programs which are free and open to the public.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and Department of Portuguese announce a bilingual poetry reading by distinguished Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão, accompanied by the translator Alexis Levitin. The event will take place on Monday, September 17, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in LARTS 397D, parking lot 7. There will be opportunity for questions for both the poet and translator. Free and open to the public.

US Colleges and Universities are using Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Downloadable Mobile Apps to recruit and decreasing their use of newspaper, television, radio and printing. One in 3 schools say that social media is more efficient than traditional media in reaching their target audience. These were among the key findings of the latest study conducted by the Director of the University of Massachusetts Center for Marketing Research, Nora Ganim Barnes and the Center’s Associate Director, Ava M. Lescault.

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), announces the publication of Land of Milk and Money; A Novel by Anthony Barcellos. In this debut novel, a Portuguese immigrant family falls apart when the matriarch’s death leaves their dairy-farm legacy up for grabs.

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), announces the publication of Maiden and Modest: A Renaissance Pastoral Romance by Bernardim Ribeiro (1482?–1552?). Maiden and Modest (1554) is the first Iberian pastoral romance, a feminine narrative that is a revealing meditation on love and longing. This Renaissance classic appears for the first time in English, in Gregory Rabassa’s masterful translation, with a foreword by Earl E. Fitz of Vanderbilt University.

North Dartmouth, MA. The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Portuguese and Lusophone Film Series at UMass Dartmouth announce the screening of Trip to Portugal (2011), directed by Sérgio Trèfaut. The event—free and open to the public—will take place on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. in the Main Auditorium, parking lot 4.

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), announces the publication of The Relic by Eça de Queirós. The classic translation by Aubrey Bell was originally published by Alfred K. Knopf in 1925 and has long been out of print. The new Tagus Press paperback edition features a preface by Harold Bloom, who writes, “The Relic is a work of absolute comic genius, an invention provocative of outrageous laughter.”

The UMass Dartmouth Observatory and the Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) are pleased to invite the general public to a FREE open house and night-sky viewing session at the campus Observatory on Saturday, April 28, 2012 starting at 8:30 PM. Viewing will take place through the Observatory's 16-inch telescope and other telescopes operated by ASSNE members.

North Dartmouth, MA. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces a lecture, “Environmental Futures in Amazonia: The Vexing Question of Property Rights,” by Dr. Jeremy M. Campbell. The event—free and open to the public—will take place on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. in LARTS 109, parking lot 1.

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), announces the publication of Home Is an Island by Alfred Lewis. This classic novel, originally published by Random House in 1951, has long been out of print. The Tagus Press cloth edition features a foreword by Congressman Devin Nunes and a preface by Frank F. Sousa.

Kaminhu Longe is a production of modern dance told through a contemporary lens, incorporating music, spoken word, theater, movement and film to tell a story informed by Cape Verdean culture and history. Kaminhu Longe depicts the challenging and exhilarating journey we must make as human beings, as we place one foot in front of the other to navigate through life. Both traditional and contemporary Cape Verdean rhythms and musical styles underscore the dance story. The archipelago of Cape Verde and its history and development from slavery to an independent nation are resonant themes in this multi-media performance.

Culture*Park in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Center for Portuguese Studies will present Kaminhu Longe, The Long Journey, a performance of contemporary Cape Verdean Dance.

The UMD Graduate Program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory, in collaboration with the Consulate of Portugal in New Bedford, the Department of Portuguese, the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, cordially invites you to a lecture

The UMass Dartmouth Observatory and the Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) are pleased to invite the general public to a free open house and night-sky viewing session at the campus Observatory on Saturday, March 31, 2012 starting at 8:00 PM. Viewing will take place through the Observatory's 16-inch telescope and other telescopes operated by ASSNE members.

Portugal’s ambassador to the United States, Nuno Brito, will formally launch the UMass in Lisbon study abroad program with the announcement of a major new sponsor next week as part of his first visit to the SouthCoast.

The official search for a new permanent Dean of the UMass School of Law at UMass Dartmouth has begun with the naming of the search committee. The law school, which opened in 2010, is the first and only public law school in Massachusetts, and has presented itself for provisional candidacy with the American Bar Association.

Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, author, speaker, and commentator, will be the keynote speaker for the 5th Annual Fundraiser benefiting UMass Dartmouth’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces a lecture, “Portuguese Expansion and Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange” by Dr. Mario Pereira.

Spark your writing spirit at the spring Literary Tea on March 11 from 2:00 – 4:00 at the New Bedford Wamsutta club. Celebrate the joys of writing and chase away the winter doldrums as you enjoy the personal stories of four successful contemporary authors, Ha Jin, Marot Livesey, and Julia Glass.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces a lecture, “The University of the Azores and the Atlantic,” by Prof. Jorge Medeiros, President of the University of the Azores. The event—free and open to the public—will take place on Thursday, February 23, at 2:00 p.m. in LARTS, Room 397D, parking lot 1. Prof. Medeiros will also meet with UMD senior administrators, faculty and students before and after his lecture, in order to discuss exchange opportunities between the two universities.

The Portuguese language has one of the world’s most culturally, ethnically and geographically diverse community of speakers, spread out as it is over every inhabited continent, on islands in the world’s oceans, and in the world’s most politically and economically important metropolitan areas. Speakers of Portuguese thus come into contact not only with speakers of other languages on a regular basis, but also are quite often speakers of other languages, dialects and Portuguese-based creoles themselves.

Dartmouth, MA. The UMass in Lisbon Study Abroad Program and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce the creation of the Elisia and Mark Saab Study Abroad Scholarship Fund for Academic Years 2012-2015 in the amount of $30,000.

Corporate usage of social media within the Inc. 500 has changed in the past 12 months. Companies are now incorporating new platforms and tools including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Texting, downloadable mobile apps and Foursquare while reducing their use of blogging, message boards, video blogging, podcasting and MySpace. These are some of the key findings from the latest research on social media adoption by the Inc. 500 conducted by Society for New Communications Research Senior Fellow Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research.