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July 11, 2002

Notices

Blood drives

Friday, July 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 1:45 to 7 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby; Monday, July 15 from 10 a.m. to

1 p.m. and from 1:45 to 4 p.m. on Stevens Way across from Lewis Hall; Monday, July 22 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in the Terry Hall Lounge; Thursday, July 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the HUB, Room 200 ABC.

Degree Exams

Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations. Chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.

General Examinations


  • Michael Gardner Andreu, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 22. 107 Anderson. (Prof. Robert Gara).
  • Ellen Beth Bloom, English, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16. A106 Padelford. (Prof. Richard Dunn).
  • Cara Lea Frankenfeld, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 25. 924 Metropolitan Park Building East. (Prof. Johanna Lampe).
  • Douglas Wai Kok Low, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 22. 322 Sieg. (Prof. Jean-Loup Baer).
  • Andrew Whitaker Wood, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 16. 154 Mueller. (Prof. Dennis Lettenmaier).
  • Vivian Zayas, Psychology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 25. 211 Guthrie. (Prof. Yuichi Shoda).

Final Examinations


  • Jason Scott Baehr, Philosophy, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, July 15. 331 Savery. “The epistemological role of the intellectual virtues.” (Prof. Laurence BonJour).
  • Paul Andrew Bedrosian, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 22. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Electromagnetic imaging of active fault zones.” (Prof. Martyn Unsworth).
  • Houfei Chen, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Friday, July 19. M306 EE/CSE. “Fast electromagnetic simulaton for interconnects on high-speed circuits.” (Prof. Leung Tsang).
  • Christy E. Flores, English, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16. A101C Padelford. “The politics of racial and cultural hybridity in 20th century American fiction.” (Prof. Johnnella Butler).
  • Ioannis N. Kassabalidis, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 16. 403 EE/CSE. “Applications of biologically-inspired algorithms on complex systems.” (Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawi).
  • Todd Spencer Kelshaw, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, July 22. 205A Raitt. “Public meetings and public officials: Officeholders’ accounts of participatory and deliberative democratic encounters with citizens.” (Prof. John Gastil).
  • Susan Duell Martin, Education, Ph.D. 12:45 p.m. Monday, July 15. 216 Miller. “Engaging students in learning tasks: Teaching and learning in writing units.” (Prof. Sheila Valencia).
  • Alan Christopher Miller, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 15. 115 Benson. “The prediction of adhesion in filled polymeric composites.” (Prof. John Berg).
  • Jinhyung Park, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 24. M406 EE/CSE. “Pipe-routing algorithm development: Case study of a ship engine room design.” (Prof. Richard Storch).
  • Anne Elizabeth Raine, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 25. A101C Padelford. “A thing wide open: Nature, modernity, and American women writers.” (Profs. Priscilla Wald and Jessica Burstein).
  • Kevin Lawrence Sager, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 18. 205A Raitt. “A new causal model of public speaking anxiety.” (Prof. John Gastil).
  • Laird Charles Sheldahl, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 19. T439 Health Sciences. “Molecular components of the Wnt/calcium pathway.” (Prof. Randall Moon).
  • Dahlia L. Sokolov, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 17. Applied Physics Lab, HCC. “Dual pulses for cavitation control in lithotripsy: Shock wave – bubble interactions and bioeffects.” (Prof. Lawrence Crum).
  • Jia Ling Song, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 17. K069 Health Sciences. “Molecular anallysis of ergosterol and prenylation pathways in Candida albicans.” (Prof. Theodore White).
  • Sasa Stefanovic, Botany, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 25. 132 Hitchcock. “Molecular systematics and chloroplast genome evolution of convolvulaceae.” (Prof. Richard Olmstead).
  • Jennifer Wightman Tonkin, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16. 425 Ocean Sciences. “Metal partitioning in the aqueous environment: Laboratory, field and modeling studies.” (Profs. James Murray and Laurie Balistrieri).
  • Christian Bernard Wade, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 24. T439 Health Sciences. “Estrogen rapid signaling – role of estrogen receptor (ER) and ER.” (Prof. Daniel Dorsa).
  • Vessela Stoeva Warner, Drama, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 25. 150 Hutchinson. “Cultural identity in Balkan drama: Self perceptions and representations in Macedonian, Serbian and Bulgarian plays from the 1970s through the 1990s.” (Prof. Barry Witham).
  • Lawrence La Riviere White, English, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, July 18. A101C Padelford. “Writing as creation: Impersonal autobiography and educaton in Fuller, Du Bois, and Stein.” (Prof. Leroy Searle).
  • Jianping Zhang, Psychology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 24. 211 Guthrie. “Development of an anger magnitude and duration measure, and its relationships with cardiovascular reactivity and recovery.” (Prof. Irwin Sarason).