BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:The objective of this event is to bring together faculty from a diverse set of CAS disciplines for an afternoon to celebrate the research and scholarship in which we’re engaged. Our topic this semester will be Learning and we’ll hear from the following, talented CAS Faculty: Gláu cia V. SilvaTitle: "Why research heritage languages: The case of Portugues e” Gláucia Silva is a Professor in the Departments of Portuguese and Ed ucation at UMass Dartmouth. She specializes in heritage and foreign langua ge learning, with a focus on Portuguese. Professor Silva has co-authored f our Portuguese language textbooks and is the author of Word order in Brazi lian Portuguese (De Gruyter, 2001/2013). She has also published several sc holarly articles and book chapters, both in English and in Portuguese, bes ides a co-edited volume (Inclusiveness beyond the (non)binary in Romance l anguages: From research to classroom implementation, Routledge, 2024). Ano ther co-edited volume on Portuguese as a heritage language will be publish ed by Routledge in 2027. Her graduate advisees have investigated different aspects related to Portuguese language and linguistics, such as the roles of attitude and motivation in learning Portuguese, service encounters in Portuguese in logo, gay articulations of desire in Rio de Janeiro , the impact of anxiety on learning Portuguese, using songs in the foreign language classroom, task-based language teaching, mother-child interactio ns in a bilingual family, among others.Donghui YanTitle: "Learning with random projection forests”Donghui Yan is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department whose research lies at the intersection of statist ics, machine learning, data mining, and data science. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked b oth in academic research and industry, applying statistical and machine le arning methods to real-world problems in environment study and public heal th, with numerous high-impact publications in his field.Shakhnoza Kayumo vaTitle: "Following Students Over Time, Results from Longitudinal Research : Learning as Identity Work in STEM Classrooms”Dr. Kayumova is Profess or of STEM Education and Teacher Development, Director at the Kaput Center for STEM Education Research and Innovation, and the founder of the STEAM Language, Learning, and Identity Research lab aimed at improving equitable outcomes in STEM Education. One of the main lines of Dr. Kayumova’s res earch inquiry is concerned with understanding how to make science educatio n a more equitable space for young people from traditionally underserved c ommunities through the design and study of teaching and learning ecologies embedded in cultural, linguistic, and epistemic heterogeneity. Issues of language, identity, and gender are recurrent themes in her research. Dr. K ayumova is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award , as well as the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. She has been a PI and Co-PI of multiple external grants, including NEH STEM and Humanities, which i nclude NSF CS-for-all, STEM+C, NSF DRK-12, NSF Eager, to name few. Dr. Kay umova’s work appears in more than 45 peer-reviewed publications, over 10 0 conferences. Shakhnoza currently serves as associate editor for Journal of Science Teaching, and Science Education, premier research journals in t he field of education, and her research work appears in journals such as J ournal of Learning Sciences (JLS), Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Edu cational Philosophy and Theory, Democracy and Education, and Journal of Re search in Science Teaching (JARST), Science Education journal. Call For Sp ring 2026 CAS Research & Scholarship Poster Abstracts: For this event, the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts and Sciences also invites Faculty and their students/advisees to submit abstracts describing any research/sc holarship they would like to communicate with their colleagues at this eve nt. The poster session will take place over refreshments, after we hear fr om our three plenary speakers, which will hopefully cultivate an informal, conversational atmosphere. The medium of the presentation of work is flex ible, but posters describing the research are suggested. Please submit a v ery brief (250-300 word) summary of the work you would like to present to me (). Please submit abstracts by March 24, 2026.\nEvent page: https://www .umassd.edu/events/cms/cas-spring-research-and-scholarship-symposium.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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The objective of this event is to bring together faculty from a diverse set of CAS disciplines for an aft ernoon to celebrate the research and scholarship in which we’re engaged. Our topic this semester will be Learning and we’ll hear from the follow ing\, talented CAS Faculty:

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Gláucia V. Silva
Title: "Why research heritage languages: The case of Po rtuguese”

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Gláucia Silva is a Professor in the Departments of Po rtuguese and Education at UMass Dartmouth. She specializes in heritage and foreign language learning\, with a focus on Portuguese. Professor Silva h as co-authored four Portuguese language textbooks and is the author of Wor d order in Brazilian Portuguese (De Gruyter\, 2001/2013). She has also pub lished several scholarly articles and book chapters\, both in English and in Portuguese\, besides a co-edited volume (Inclusiveness beyond the (non) binary in Romance languages: From research to classroom implementation\, R outledge\, 2024). Another co-edited volume on Portuguese as a heritage lan guage will be published by Routledge in 2027. Her graduate advisees have i nvestigated different aspects related to Portuguese language and linguisti cs\, such as the roles of attitude and motivation in learning Portuguese\, service encounters in Portuguese in logo\, gay articulations of desire in Rio de Janeiro\, the impact of anxiety on learning Portuguese\, using songs in the foreign language classroom\, task-based language teachi ng\, mother-child interactions in a bilingual family\, among others.

Donghui Yan
Title: "Learnin g with random projection forests”

Donghui Yan is an Associa te Professor in the Mathematics Department whose research lies at the inte rsection of statistics\, machine learning\, data mining\, and data science . He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California\, Be rkeley and has worked both in academic research and industry\, applying st atistical and machine learning methods to real-world problems in environme nt study and public health\, with numerous high-impact publications in his field.

Shakhnoza Kayumova
Titl e: "Following Students Over Time\, Results from Longitudinal Rese arch: Learning as Identity Work in STEM Classrooms”

Dr. Kay umova is Professor of STEM Education and Teacher Development\, Director at the Kaput Center for STEM Education Research and Innovation\, and the fou nder of the STEAM Language\, Learning\, and Identity Research lab aimed at improving equitable outcomes in STEM Education. One of the main lines of Dr. Kayumova’s research inquiry is concerned with understanding how to m ake science education a more equitable space for young people from traditi onally underserved communities through the design and study of teaching an d learning ecologies embedded in cultural\, linguistic\, and epistemic het erogeneity. Issues of language\, identity\, and gender are recurrent theme s in her research. Dr. Kayumova is a recipient of the National Science Fou ndation’s CAREER award\, as well as the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Sh e has been a PI and Co-PI of multiple external grants\, including NEH STEM and Humanities\, which include NSF CS-for-all\, STEM+C\, NSF DRK-12\, N SF Eager\, to name few. Dr. Kayumova’s work appears in more than 45 peer -reviewed publications\, over 100 conferences. Shakhnoza currently serves as associate editor for Journal of Science Teaching\, and Science Educatio n\, premier research journals in the field of education\, and her research work appears in journals such as Journal of Learning Sciences (JLS)\, Ant hropology & Education Quarterly\, Educational Philosophy and Theory\, Demo cracy and Education\, and Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JARST)\ , Science Education journal.

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Call For Spring 2026 CAS Rese arch & Scholarship Poster Abstracts:

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For this event\, the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts and Sciences also invites Faculty and their students/advisees to submit abstracts describing any research/sc holarship they would like to communicate with their colleagues at this eve nt. The poster session will take place over refreshments\, after we hear f rom our three plenary speakers\, which will hopefully cultivate an informa l\, conversational atmosphere.

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The medium of the presentation of w ork is flexible\, but posters describing the research are suggested. Pleas e submit a very brief (250-300 word) summary of the work you would like to present to me ().

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Please submit abstracts by March 24\, 2026.

Event page: /events/cms/cas-s pring-research-and-scholarship-symposium.php

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