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June 24, 2004

Notices

English Language Courses
The UW English Language Programs (UWELP) offers quarterly online and on-site courses designed primarily for non-native speakers of English.

Convenient online courses are available for UW employees who want to improve their sentence-level grammar and vocabulary in academic, business, or technical writing. All of the courses have online interactive exercises and short assignments to be completed each week. Instructors respond to assignments within two business days, giving detailed one-on-one feedback.

Evening and Saturday on-site courses focus on improving conversational skills, grammar, pronunciation, English in business presentations and written communications, and preparation for the TOEFL, TOEIC, and verbal parts of the GRE and GMAT. There are also daytime courses in reading, writing, grammar, speaking, listening, and vocabulary and idioms.

UWELP also customizes courses in English for the Workplace. Depending on the needs of your group, courses can be designed for such areas as pronunciation and fluency, assisting clients by telephone, presentation skills and the language of meetings, e-mail communication, and job-specific vocabulary and idioms.

For more information, call 543-6242 or e-mail uwelp@u.washington.edu.

Rental Housing Service
The Visiting Faculty Housing Service in Cunningham Hall is a clearinghouse for short- or long-term rental housing for new and visiting UW faculty and staff. Listings include apartments/ condos, rooms in private homes, houseboats and one to five bedroom homes, furnished and unfurnished. VFHS “Housing Wanted” forms are e-mailed to all corners of the world. The all-volunteer staff has been providing this service for UW since 1985. Donations given by those listing housing are applied to scholarships for university undergrad students. To make the arrival of newcomers to your department or office just that much easier, contact the VFHS at: 213 Cunningham (across from the old Architecture Building), box 351380, 206-543-6252, vfhs@u.washington.edu. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday – Friday except holidays

Research participants wanted
Babies and their mothers are needed for an important new research study directed by Ann P. Streissguth, at the UW School of Medicine. The study is funded by the UW Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. The purpose of the study is to determine whether cranial ultrasound images will be useful in showing any differences in babies affected by prenatal alcohol exposure compared to those who are not. Your participation in this research study is entirely voluntary.

Many mothers are given ultrasound exams during pregnancy in order to observe their baby’s development. We’d like your permission to take an ultrasound picture of your baby’s brain after birth (anytime up to 3 1/2 months). This is a simple procedure with no known risks that takes about 15 minutes. It will take place at the Ultrasound Clinic at Children’s Hospital in Seattle.

We would also like to ask you some questions about your health during and prior to pregnancy. Questions would range from when you found out you were pregnant to information about alcohol and drug use before and during pregnancy. The interview takes about 1 1/2 hours, and will be done at a place of your choice, for example, at your home, or at our offices. Total participation time for the two visits is about 2 1/2 hours, including waiting time. You will receive $75 for your participation and we will provide transportation if you would like.

For more information please call Kristi Baldwin, Research Coordinator for this study, at 206-543-7155.

Surplus property
Web camera and camera server available for sale. The product is a Canon VB101 network camera server and VC-C4R ceiling mount web/communications camera (opened only for testing purposes. Still have boxes, manuals, etc). With the camera server, the web camera is an easy to install, stand-alone piece of equipment that only requires an internet connection (i.e. ethernet cable or phone) for access. The camera is extremely high quality, with 360 degree rotation, wide-angle viewing and high powered zoom (all camera functions can be controlled by the viewer over the internet). The web server can be set up for recording, still shots, and several other features are included.

The retail price for the camera and server is about $2550 ($1630.91 for the server and $911.48 for the camera). We would be willing to sell the package for $2000. Call 206-543-0106 for more information.


Blood drives
Monday, June 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 – 4 p.m. in 108 HUB.

Tuesday, June 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2:45 – 5 p.m. on Stevens Way across from Lewis Hall.

Degree Exams

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

General Examinations


  • Stacy Marie Alvares, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30. D5-120 FHCRC. (Prof. William Carter).
  • Beverly Junkert Court, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 6. H670 Health Sciences. (Prof. David Grembowski).
  • Robert Kenneth Doot, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, June 25. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Viola Vogel).
  • Thomas Gadfort, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 8. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Gordon Watts).
  • Amity F. Gann, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 28. K550 Health Sciences. (Prof. Mark Bothwell).
  • Andrew D. Hill, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, June 25. 107A Anderson. (Prof. Eric Turnblom).
  • Megan R. Jones, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 30. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. Norm Dovichi).
  • Steven L. Matthews, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, July 8. 339 Chemistry. (Prof. D. Michael Heinekey).
  • Andrew Vincent Pawlikowski, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 6. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. Karen Goldberg).
  • John Stuart Read, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 6. 367 Mackenzie. (Prof. Michael Song).
  • Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 7. F643 Health Sciences. (Prof. Ellen Wijsman).
  • Liyun Sang, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 28. C2-161 FHCRC. (Prof. James Roberts).
  • Sara E. Selgrade, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 30. K350 Health Sciences. (Prof. Samuel Miller).
  • Qiangwei Xia, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 2. T478 Health Sciences. (Prof. John Leigh).
  • Jiro C. Yasuhara, Zoology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 8. 502 Kincaid. (Prof. Barbara Wakimoto).
  • Dan Kawika Yoshimoto, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 1. Relationship Research Institute, Conference Room. (Prof. John Gottman).

Final Examinations


  • Meher Antia, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, June 25. 102 Chemistry. “Functional significance of fibronectin structural changes induced by surface adsorption and cell-generated mechanical forces.” (Prof. Viola Vogel).
  • Scott Frederick Beers, Education, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 6. 122 Miller. “Reading fluency and adolescent students’ reading processes during writing.” (Prof. Timothy Standal).
  • Charlotte Amelia Berkes, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Elucidating the mechanisms by which MyoD establishes muscle-specific gene expression: Pbx and meis flex their muscles.” (Prof. Stephen Tapscott).
  • Mark L. Chang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 28. 303 EE1. “Variable precision analysis for FPGA synthesis.” (Prof. Scott Hauck).
  • Lara Eugenia Embry, Psychology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 29. 202c Chemistry Library. “The effects of variation in criteria for identifying resilient children.” (Prof. Liliana Lengua).
  • Chung Tin Kwok, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 8. 303 Allen Center. “Robust real-time perception for mobile robots.” (Prof. Dieter Fox).
  • Xiaoyong Li, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 6. 403 Electrical Engineering. “Low noise design techniques for radio frequency integrated circuits.” (Prof. David Allstot).
  • Tera Lea Newman, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 29. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Complex evolution of the 7E olfactory receptor genes and 7E segmental duplications.” (Prof. Barbara Trask).
  • Johnnie J. Orozco, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 1. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Characterizing the humoral immune response to HPV 6.” (Profs. Denise Galloway and Patrick Stayton).
  • Antoine Luc Perchellet, Immunology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 6. K069 Health Sciences. “Maintenance and disruption of CD8+ T cell tolerance to myelin basic protein.” (Prof. Joan Goverman).
  • Paul Clinton Jr Spiegel, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Structural and biochemical studies of blood coagulation factor VIII and LAGLIDADG homing endonucleases.” (Profs. Barry Stoddard and Ronald Stenkamp).
  • Laurie Ann Weitkamp, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 29. 102 Fisheries. “Ocean conditions, marine survival, and performance of juvenile chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and coho (O. kisutch) salmon in SE Alaska.” (Prof. Robert Francis).