UMass Dartmouth

North Dartmouth, MA - Ray Suarez, the senior correspondent for The NewsHour, who has spent more than a quarter century in journalism covering local, national, and international stories, will address UMass Dartmouth's 2008 undergraduate commencement exercises.

North Dartmouth, MA- UMass Dartmouth has launched myAlert, a new emergency notification system that will instantly transmit a text or voice message to the cell phones of students, faculty and staff in the event of a major emergency.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth commemorated 25 years of excellence in education and service of its Medical Laboratory Science Department, highlighting partnerships with area hospitals and bio-tech companies,  including Abbott Laboratories, which donated a $150,000 laboratory device to the department last fall.

The  Center for Marketing Research was activated in 1999 and initially named the Center for Business Research, later adopting its present name, Center for Marketing Research. The appointing authorities asked Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes to create a Center that served the needs of the University, its students, the business community, and residents of southeastern Massachusetts.

NEW BEDFORD, MA – The UMass Dartmouth Ceramics Club welcomes Penn State University Professor Chris Staley to the UMass Dartmouth Star Store on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, for a lecture and presentation of his work.

North Dartmouth, MA -  Senator Joan Menard (D-Fall River) and Representative Michael Rodrigues (D-Westport) are pleased to announce that the UMass Dartmouth Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Center (ATMC) located on Martine Streetin Fall River has received a $250,000 grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Renewable Energy Trust Fund. The grant has been awarded as a result of the ATMC's proposal to establish a Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC) in a collaborative effort with officials in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.  The Center's goal is to accelerate the use and commercialization of marine renewable energy technologies.

North Dartmouth, MA- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Tobias S. Monte, will present a free concert on Wednesday, April 30, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center's main auditorium.

North Dartmouth, MA - The passion for learning demonstrated by her late mother and her mother's closest friend has inspired UMass Dartmouth Professor Robin Robinson to create a scholarship to assist women intent on pursuing higher education.

North Dartmouth, MA- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces a colloquium entitled "Representation and Citizenship: Conversations with Portuguese-American Elected Officials," organized by the UMD Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, on Friday, April 11 at 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m., in the Claire T. Carney Library (Parking Lot 13).

North Dartmouth, MA - UMass Dartmouth's Pavement Research Institute of Southeastern Massachusetts (PRISM) has entered into a $399,000 research agreement with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works to design and evaluate specialized hot mix asphalt mixtures for roadway applications in Massachusetts.

North Dartmouth, MA- A fish culture research team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the direction of Drs. Kenneth Oliveira and Whitney Hable recently accomplished for the first time the artificial spawning of the American eel.  Larvae of the American eel lived for 4 days after hatching and this is the first time the fertilized eggs or larvae of this species have been seen by human eyes.  This is a major accomplishment in the area of fish culture.  The UMASS Dartmouth Team built on the techniques that have been developed for the Japanese eel in Japan and the European eel in Europe to accomplish the successful culturing process.

North Dartmouth, MA - The University of New Hampshire's Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) has awarded $400,000 to UMass Dartmouth Professor Erin Bromage and the biologist's collaborators from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VMS) to develop an early warning system for oil spills..

North Dartmouth, MA- "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North," a film concerning race relations and the current impact of slavery in Rhode Island, will be presented on Wednesday, March 26 at 1:30 p.m. in the UMass Dartmouth Campus Center Main Auditorium.

North Dartmouth, MA - The Short Sea Shipping Symposium will be held on March 26 –27, 2008 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the browsing area of the Claire T. Carney Library. This two-day conference will give attendees a broad picture of the promise of domestic Short Sea Shipping as a viable and environmentally friendly commercial freight alternative that utilizes inland and coastal waterways to move cargo from major domestic ports to its destination.

North Dartmouth, MA - The School for Marine Science and Technology of UMass Dartmouth is hosting a consortium of 20 universities and organizations this week to plan the initial stages of a system to monitor the changing conditions and health of coastal waters from Massachusetts to North Carolina.  The consortium is developing a sophisticated network of weather stations, satellites, coastal radars and robotic underwater vehicles to produce a three-dimensional view of conditions in the coastal Mid-Atlantic.  The current, three-year phase of the project is funded with an $8.7-million grant from the NOAA Coastal Services Center.

A full-scale emergency operations exercise involving state, local, and regional public safety agencies will take place Thursday, March 20 at UMass Dartmouth, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The exercise will attract numerous police, fire and EMS professionals and vehicles, possibly including a helicopter, to the campus during the morning hours.

North Dartmouth, MA - The Claire T. Carney Library Associates are hosting an Heirloom Discovery Day at UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA. The event will be Sunday, March 30 at 2-4:30 p.m. in the Claire T. Carney library browsing area.

North Dartmouth, MA- Thanks to the generosity of friends and colleagues of Bob and Linda Waxler, an annual award of $500.00 was established to honor the memory of their beloved son Jonathan in recognition of principled commitments to social activism both on-campus and off.

North Dartmouth, MA - "An Evening with Sophie Freud" is free to the public and features a very interesting program with a fascinating, brilliant woman. The event is March 25th at 7 p.m. in the Browsing Area of the Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth. 

North Dartmouth, MA- UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) Professors Steven Cadrin and Daniel Georgianna have both been appointed for three-year terms to the New England Fisheries Management Council's Science and Statistical Committee.  The appointments were announced by Council Chair John Pappalardo at the Feb. 12 Council meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The balance between selling and marketing is critical to the success of an entrepreneur, and the next meeting of the Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum (SNEEF) on February 28th will benefit from successful entrepreneurs sharing their experiences.

North Dartmouth, MA- A southeastern Massachusetts delegation of government, education and business leaders today announced the results of a Feb. 15-22 trade mission to the Azores, including agreements between UMass Dartmouth and the University of the Azores to collaborate on faculty/student exchanges and research initiatives in the marine sciences, business, nursing, and Portuguese Studies; and the sharing of library and archival resources.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Department of Foreign Literature & Languages presents The Tournées French Film Festival. The Tournées Festival was made possible thanks to a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC). Additional sponsors are the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow entertainment, agnès b., and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.

North Dartmouth, MA - UMass Dartmouth will host its 6th Cranberry Research Symposium at Woodland Commons on the Dartmouth campus at
285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 from 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM.  Visitors' parking is available on a limited basis in Lot 7.

North Dartmouth, MA- Tomorrow's Wall Street giants could be today's UMass Dartmouth students. Under a program initiated by UMass Office of the President and the UMass Foundation, a  $25,000 student-run investment fund has been created to give UMass Dartmouth students a first hand marketplace experience in creating and managing an investment portfolio. 

North Dartmouth, MA - "Small, smart and powerful," are a few of the adjectives UMass Dartmouth Marine Science Professor Louis Goodman uses to describe the new device he is building to gather data from the ocean.

North Dartmouth, MA - It's not unusual for students to travel during a school break. But it is rare to mingle among blue-footed boobies, giant tortoises, marine iguanas and other exotic creatures while earning biology course credits. For nine UMass Dartmouth undergraduates, a 10-day, January expedition to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands proved to be the experience of a lifetime.

North Dartmouth, MA- Members of the delegation participating in the upcoming South Coast trade mission to the Azores will report on the trip following their return to the U.S. at a press conference scheduled for Monday, February 25 at 9 a.m. in Board Room of the Foster Administration Building at UMass Dartmouth.

If you’re serious about growing your business, earning more revenue and making more profit, then you better understand BUZZ!  The MSBDC, Coastway Credit Union, The New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce and the Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a three part marketing workshop series. The program will be presented by Dr. Cliff Robbins, a visiting lecturer at UMASS Dartmouth, a Senior Business Advisor at MSBDC and a battle scarred veteran of growing, marketing and selling his own businesses.

North Dartmouth, MA- Memory A. Holloway, associate professor of art history at UMass Dartmouth, is a driving force in direct feeding programs on behalf of several local agencies. She's also a role model to students and colleagues, inspiring them to serve others through positive action.