Notices

ADAI Grants
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards. Proposed research must be in alcohol or drug abuse-related fields. The maximum amount considered for funding is $20,000. The next application deadline is 5 p.m., Oct. 15. Questions concerning the application process or suitability of a potential project should be directed to the Institute at 206-543-0937. Application guidelines are available on the ADAI website at http://depts.washington.edu/adai  or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.

OTHER NEWS

Board of Regents Meeting
The University of Washington Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall on the Seattle campus. 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.

Alzheimer’s Study Subjects Wanted
Healthy male and female volunteers are needed to participate in a UW research study to evaluate the effects of “statin” medications on the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Persons must have high cholesterol, and no significant memory problems. Those who have taken a cholesterol-lowering medication within the past year will be excluded. All study visits will be conducted at the VA Medical Center. Participants will be compensated for their time. For more information, please contact Dr. Robert Riekse at
206-277-4436

Whiplash Study Participants needed
Have you had whiplash in the past three months? UWMC’s Whiplash Research Center is conducting a study supported by a grant from the NIH. Qualified participants may receive a medical evaluation, multidisciplinary treatment, and earn up to $150. For more information call 206-543-3387, or visit http://depts.washington.edu/wads/  on the Web.

Trial to prevent type 1 diabetes
Dr. Zane Brown and Dr. Jerry Palmer, professor of medicine in the UW Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition, are investigating the effect of infant nutrition on the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children at risk for contracting the disease in an international study called TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk). They are looking for pregnant women with type 1 diabetes, pregnant women whose partner has type 1 diabetes, or pregnant women who have a child with type 1 diabetes, to participate in this study. For more information about TRIGR, please contact Rachel Taculad, research nurse coordinator, at 206-764-2154.

Chronic Fatigue Study Participants Needed
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 drive
Friday, September 5 and Friday, September 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to
6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.

Monday, October 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the HUB.

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 peoples 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.

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 Registration Drives, please call 206-292-1897 or 1-800 DONATE-1, or see the bone marrow drive calendar at http://www.psbc.org.

DEGREE EXAMS

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

General Examinations

Final Examinations

• Jeffrey Loren Baugh, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday,  Sept. 4. 102 Chemistry.  “Structural changes of fibronectin during cell interactions and adsorption to surfaces measured using fluorescence resonance energy transfer.” (Prof. Viola Vogel).


• Vicky Cardenas, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday,  Sept. 2. K069 Health Sciences.  “An investigation of intrahousehold demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental conditions exposing household members to risk of cholera infection, Lima, Peru, 1994-1995.” (Prof. Noel Weiss).


• Catherine Patricia Fagas Post D’ambrosio, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. noon Friday, Aug 22. T612 Health Sciences.  “Computational representation of bedside nurses’ decision-making processes.” (Prof. Pamela Mitchell).


• Erdag Mithat Goknar, Near and Middle Eastern Studies Group, Ph.D. noon Thursday,  Sept. 25. 32 Communications.  “Between Ottoman and Turk:  Literary narrative and the transition from empire to republic.” (Prof. Resat Kasaba).


• Gordon Lee Graff, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday,  Sept. 5. 321 Roberts.  “Multi-layer thin-films as gas diffusion barriers.” (Prof.Fumio Ohuchi).


• Darren Scott Reed, Astronomy, Ph.D. 1:30  p.m. Friday, Aug 29. C520 Physics/Astronomy.  “Cosmological simulations of dark matter halos.” (Prof. Thomas Quinn).


• Douglas Streeter Rolph, Business Administration, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug 26. 367 Mackenzie.  “Two essays on skewness and expected equity returns.” (Prof. Avraham Kamara).


• Todd Nelson Schoepflin, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 8:30  a.m. Thursday,  Sept. 4. 403 EE1.  “Algorithms for estimating mean vehicle speed using uncalibrated traffic management cameras.” (Profs. Yongmin Kim and Daniel Dailey).