Education

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.

New Bedford, Massachusetts-The New Bedford Health Department will conduct an emergency preparedness drill on the morning of February 21, 2013 at Normandin Middle School during the week the school is closed for winter vacation.  A previous drill was conducted in March 2012 at the Roosevelt Middle School.  The Massachusetts Department of Public Health requires communities to conduct periodic exercises in accordance with Homeland Security emergency preparedness guidelines. 

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.

FAIRHAVEN, MA -- January 28, 2013 – Starting February 1st applications will be accepted for the 17th  Annual First Citizens’ Federal Credit Union’s Barbara Whitehead Silva Scholarship  & Champion Family Scholarship Program.  In total thirteen $1,000 scholarships will be awarded.

Hundreds of Junior Achievement (JA) supporters “bowled for bucks” at the organization’s annual Bowling Classic event on Saturday, November 3rd, raised nearly $25,000 for the local nonprofit.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today that the Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern MA (CEDC) is one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. CEDC is recommended for a $40,000 grant to produce the 2013 Working Waterfront Festival.

The New Bedford Cable Network has announced that “Homework Helpers,” a live show hosted by New Bedford Public Schools teachers who provide guidance to students seeking help with their homework, has begun its second season. Current and retired New Bedford Public Schools teachers host the half-hour call-in show on New Bedford’s Education Channel 17 and provide helpful instruction and advice to students tackling difficult homework questions.

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.

unior Achievement of Southern Massachusetts has welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors. Eric Carlson, Vice President of Commercial Lending at Rockland Trust, and Vernon Miles, Mortgage Banker for Residential Mortgage Services (RMS) were both elected to three-year terms at a recent Board meeting.

Mayor Jon Mitchell announced today that eight individuals have formally expressed an interest in filling the current vacancy on the New Bedford School Committee created by Tom Clark’s resignation in September 2012. The following individuals submitted an application to the Mayor as Chair of the Convention by the October 9th deadline:

The New Bedford School Committee has approved the agreement that Mayor Jon Mitchell and New Bedford Public Schools Interim Superintendent Michael R. Shea reached with the leaders of the New Bedford Educators Association on a labor contract for New Bedford teachers.

New Bedford, Massachusetts- Students at New Bedford’s Normandin and Roosevelt Middle Schools and several elementary schools in New Bedford will join children around the world in celebrating “International Walk to School Day” on Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Mass in Motion New Bedford, the City of New Bedford and New Bedford Public Schools have organized New Bedford’s Walk to School Day events.

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.

Junior Achievement of Southern Massachusetts is seeking volunteers to teach classes in Bristol County and Southern Plymouth County during their fall session.

The English Works Campaign and the City of New Bedford are pleased to announce that Mayor Jon Mitchell has pledged his support for Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) by officially signing on to the English Works Campaign. The Campaign is a statewide coalition of immigrant community organizations, labor unions, and businesses working together to increase the availability of English classes for immigrants in the workforce. Mayor Mitchell joins the English Works Mayors Circle, a group of elected officials who have joined the Campaign to encourage local businesses to invest in ESOL, including the Mayors of Boston, Lynn, Everett, Somerville, Salem and Melrose.

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.

Junior Achievement of Southern Massachusetts announced the appointment of three new officers to its Executive Committee at the organization’s annual meeting last week on Tuesday, July 17th at Bittersweet Farm Restaurant & Tavern in Westport.

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.”

New Bedford’s Abraham Lincoln Elementary School was recognized along with five other schools in the Commonwealth for its sustainable “green” design elements. The school was one of five schools in the Commonwealth honored by the “Green Schools Organization” as a green learning environment. Mayor Mitchell presented the award to the Lincoln School today and spoke about the building’s energy efficient design features as well as efficiency measures implemented in other school buildings throughout the district.

The New Bedford Cable Network today announced a new partnership with New Bedford Public Schools to air “Homework Helpers” a live show on the Education Channel 17 that will allow students to call-in for help with their homework. Current and retired New Bedford Public Schools teachers will host the half hour call-in show and will provide helpful instruction and advice to students tackling difficult homework questions.

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.

New Bedford and the Southcoast region of Massachusetts is known as a former home to a vibrant Polish immigrant community. Despite popular belief that most Poles have migrated out of New Bedford, Fall River and the surrounding southcoastal towns, there are still quite a few first and second generation Polish families residing in the region!

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.