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July 10, 2003

Notices

Board of Regents
The University of Washington Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.m. on. Friday, July 18, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall.

The Regents will meet in formal session to take official action on personnel appointments and changes, gifts and grants, contracts and agreements with outside agencies, and other University business.

W26 parking lot not available
Please note that W26, the gravel lot adjacent to the West Campus Garage, is no longer available for parking. This lot will become a laydown area for the construction of the Life Sciences Buildings 2 and 3. There will also be signage at the lot regarding this issue.

UW employees who have Individual Commuter Tickets (ICT’S) or anyone using Departmental Commuter Tickets (DCT’S) will no longer be able to park in the gravel lot. Anyone wishing to access W26 will need to go to a campus gatehouse to be reassigned to another lot.

Chronic fatigue research participants wanted
Healthy volunteer families are needed to participate in a research study about the impact of chronic fatigue syndrome on adolescents and young adults in the family. Healthy mothers and fathers (optional) who have at least one biological child 12 years of age and older living in the household are eligible. The study involves a 4–5 hour visit at Children’s Hospital Cooperative Research Center. All family members will have a physical examination with blood draw, complete interviews and questionnaires, and will have brief tests of cognition and pain. Each person will be compensated $100. For more info, call Stephanie at 206-521-1233 or email, sbhatz@u.washington.edu.

Language Exchange Opportunities
We would like your help if you are a fluent speaker of English who is interested in meeting and helping international students studying English. This would be a way of gaining experience for future overseas or ESL teaching, fulfilling community service requirements or developing a language/culture exchange. A brief description of the two different types of volunteer opportunities follows.

Conversation Exchange Partner: fluent English speakers are matched with students, based on language/culture exchange interests or by general English practice. Meeting arrangements are made by the participating individuals.

In-Class Facilitator: fluent English speakers come to our conversation, American culture, or academic English classes to assist our English language teachers in providing conversation practice for students. The class sections usually have about 14 students per class from different countries. These students often don’t have a chance to practice their English with a fluent speaker. Therefore, we like to offer them this chance in the classroom. Due to the large number of participants, it is important that volunteers be assigned to particular class sections.

For both opportunities, we ask volunteers to provide 10 sessions total, or a once per week commitment. At the end of the quarter, volunteers can request a letter documenting his/her work in our program.

For more information, contact: Michele Norton, Language Exchange Program Coordinator, University of Washington English Language Programs, Box 354232, Seattle, WA 98195-4232, (206) 685-6355 or send e-mail to langex@u.washington.edu.

Blood Center volunteers needed
Puget Sound Blood center, the largest volunteer organization in Washington State, seeks volunteers to help at mobile blood drives and at donation centers throughout the region.

Volunteers play a vital role in saving lives and opportunities include registering people before they donate blood, serving refreshments while monitoring donors after they donate blood, calling to remind donors of their appointments and driving Blood Center vehicles to deliver blood and supplies.

Delivery volunteers are required to have a valid Washington state license. Hours are flexible. Please call 1-800-266-4033.

Blood drives


  • Friday, July 11 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.
  • Monday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the HUB, Room 200 ABC
  • Wednesday, July 16, from 9 a.m. to noon in the parking lot at 9725 3 Ave. NE.

Bone marrow donation
Puget Sound Blood Center is a donor recruitment center for the National Marrow Donor Program. For a listing of the scheduled Bone Marrow Donor Regis-tration Drives, please call 206-292-1897 or 1-800 DONATE-1, or see the bone marrow drive calendar at http://www.psbc.org.


Legal Notice

Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-510 and WAC 478-324-140, the University of Washington hereby provides public notice of the availability of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS).

Project name: Bioengineering and Genomic Sciences Building
Proponent: University of Washington
Description of proposal: Construction of a research and academic building totaling 265,000 gsf. Approximately 135,000 gsf will be allocated to Bioengineering and 130,000 gsf to Genomic Sciences.
Location of proposal: 1705 NE Pacific Street. The site if bounded by 15th Avenue NE on the west, NE Boat Street on the south, NE Pacific Street on the north and the future Portage Bay Vista on the east.
Lead agency: University of Washington
Copies available: The Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, Campus Master Plan and other material can be reviewed at the Capital Projects Office, University Facilities Building.
Contact person: Jan Arntz, Environmental/Land Use Compliance Officer, Capital Projects Office, University Facilities Building, Box 352205, Seattle, Washington 98195.
Responsible official: Richard K. Chapman, Associate Vice President for Capital Projects, Box 352205, Seattle, Washington, 98195.
Final action: After July 10.

DEGREE EXAMS

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

General Examinations


  • Mohammad A. Al-Yagout, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. 218 More. (Prof. Joseph Mahoney).
  • Andri Arnaldsson, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 23. 319 Bagley. (Prof. Hannes Jonsson).
  • David L. George, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 11. 408D Guggenheim. (Prof. Randall LeVeque).
  • Thomas S. Hnasko, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 16. K550 Health Sciences. (Prof. Richard Palmiter)
  • Hyundae Kim, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. Conference room, AERB. (Prof. Thomas Jarboe).
  • Koji Kojima, Business Administration, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 16. 367 Mackenzie. (Prof. Stephan Sefcik).
  • David J. Margolis, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, July 14. G417 Health Sciences. (Prof. Peter Detwiler).
  • David Lee Rector, Education, Ed.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, July 17. 210 Miller. (Prof. Bradley Portin).
  • Cinzia Russi, Linguistics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, July 18. 025 Chemistry Library. (Prof. Jurgen Klausenburger).
  • Lijun Xu, Chemistry, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, July 24. 319 Bagley. (Prof. Charles Campbell).


Final Examinations



  • Henry Michael Ajo, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 22. 102 Chemistry. “The energetics of hydrocarbon adsorption on model catalysts.” (Prof. Charles Campbell).
  • Christine Edna Winifred Bond, Sociology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 23. 110C Savery. “Vulnerable girls, resilient boys?: Gender and official assessments of juvenile offenders.” (Prof. George Bridges).
  • Brian John Carroll, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, July 11. 239 Chemistry. “Studies on the biosynthesis of naturally occurring antitumor agents.” (Prof. Heinz Floss).
  • Albert Noble Hendrix, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 18. 107 Fisheries. “Crayfish (Procambarus spp)response to hydrolic restoration of the Florida Everglades.” (Prof. Ray Hilborn).
  • Dean C. Kempter, Education, Ed.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 15. 201 Miller. “Race-neutral maximization of minority enrollment in flagship state universities.” (Prof. Michael Knapp).
  • Jae-Seung Kim, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 15. M406 Electrical Engineering. “Objective image quality assessment for positron emission tomography: Planar (2D) and volumetric (3D) human and model observer studies.” (Profs. Paul Kinahan and Thomas Lewellen).
  • Na Li, Public Health and Community Medicine — Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 23. F600 Health Sciences. “Modeling and inference for linkage disequilibrium and recombination.” (Profs. M. Stephens and E. Thompson).
  • Yu Lu, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 18. 243 Wilcox. “Engineering the structures and shapes of colloidal particles.” (Prof. Younan Xia).
  • Scott Montgomery Martin, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 24. 259 Mechanical Engineering. “The conditional moment closure method for modeling lean premixed turbulent combustion.” (Prof. John Kramlich).
  • Patrick Brandon Matheny, Botany, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 21. K069 Health Sciences. “Molecular sytematics and taxonomic contributions towards the Inocybaceae.” (Prof. Joseph Ammirati).
  • Brian T. Mayers, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, July 11. 102 Chemistry. “Synthetic approaches to one-dimensional nanostructures.” (Prof. Younan Xia).
  • Robert David Nielsen, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15. 102 Chemistry. “An analysis of continuous wave and time domain electron paramagnetic resonance spectra with applications to biological systems.” (Prof. Bruce Robinson).
  • Yoosun Park, Social Work, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 11. 236 Social Work/Speech. “Inferiority, degeneracy, and dependency: Problematizing the immigrant in social work discourse, 1882-1952.” (Prof. Anthony Ishisaka).
  • James Shannon Peet, Geography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 22. 409 Smith. “Measuring equity in terms of relative accessibility: An application to Seattle’s Duwamish corridor seaport facilities.” (Prof. Timothy Nyerges).
  • Mary Alice Pickert, Political Science, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 23. University of Washington, Seattle. “Practicing citizenship: Volunteer firefighters and eldercare workers in Japan.” (Prof. Joel Migdal).
  • Claire Elaine Rasmussen, Political Science, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, July 17. 40 Smith. “Bound to be free: Essays on tying the subject to the project of autonomy.” (Prof. Christine DiStefano).
  • Michael John Safoutin, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. 114 Engineering Annex. “A methodology for empirical measurement of iteration in engineering design processes.” (Prof. Cynthia Atman).
  • Solveig Kara Sieberts, Statistics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 22. 325 Thomson. “Joint relationship inference from three or more individuals in the presence of genotyping error.” (Prof. Elizabeth Thompson).
  • Todd Robert Stedl, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, July 18. 102 Chemistry. “Computational investigations of the dynamics of chlorine dioxide.” (Prof. Hannes Jonsson).
  • Carolyn Rinke Stenbak, Microbiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Foamy virus polymerase: Enzymatic activities and assembly.” (Prof. Maxine Linial).
  • Wendy Evelyn Thomas, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 15. K069 Health Sciences. “Shear stress enhances bacterial adhesion.” (Prof. Viola Vogel).
  • Vivian Zayas, Psychology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 15. 211 Guthrie. “Personality in context: An interpersonal systems perspective.” (Prof. Yuichi Shoda).
  • Lin Zhou, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 11. M406 Electrical Engineering. “Simulations of emissivity in passive microwave remote sensing with 3-dimensional numerical solutions of maxwell equations and fast algorithm.” (Prof. Leung Tsang)