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July 8, 2004

Notices

UW Weekend Homestay

English Language Programs is looking for individuals and families to host Japanese university students for the Summer 2004 Weekend Homestay program. Volunteers host one or two Japanese students for one weekend.


It’s an excellent opportunity to: give your family an enjoyable cross-cultural experience, learn about Japanese customs and beliefs, learn some Japanese words and phrases, make international friends and give the homestay experience a short-term trial run


Hosts are needed for the following weekends:


  • Aug. 6–8 Nihon Pharmacy University
  • Aug. 27–29 Tokyo University of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
  • Sept. 3–6 International University of Kagoshima


Apply online today at http://depts.washington.edu/uwsp/homestay. Or, contact Josh Little or Mihaela Giurca: email: homestay@u.washington.edu, phone: 206-543-8933.

Blood drives


  • Friday, July 9 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.
  • Wednesday, July 14 from 9 a.m. to noon in the parking lot at 9725 Third Avenue NE.


Degree Exams

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

General Examinations


  • Songrit Chayanan, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 19. 119 More. (Prof. Venkataraman Shankar).
  • Robert Stiles Crampton, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 14. F348 Health Sciences. (Prof. Michael Yost).
  • Yangqiu Hu, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 13. 322 Harris. (Prof. David Haynor).
  • Wilmot Wei-Mau Li, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 14. 303 Allen Center. (Prof. David Salesin).
  • Jeremy S. Littell, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Monday, July 19. 22 Anderson. (Prof. David Peterson).
  • Christopher Joseph Lyons, Sociology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15. 110C Savery. (Prof. Ross Matsueda).
  • Marloes H. Maathuis, Statistics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 20. 413 Balmer. (Prof. Jon Wellner).
  • Ratna Maya Magarati, Sociology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, July 15. 110C Savery. (Prof. Charles Hirschman).
  • Hyo Jung Park, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, July 19. T612 Health Sciences. (Prof. Margaret Heitkemper).
  • Gang Ren, Pharmacy – Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, July 22. H272G Health Sciences. (Prof. John Slattery).
  • Sarah Elizabeth Schwarm, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 9. 303 Allen Center. (Prof. Mari Ostendorf).
  • William Eric Strong, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 14. 52 Social Work/Speech. (Prof. Truman Coggins).
  • Chia-Che Wu, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. 259 Mechanical Engineering. (Profs. I.Y. (Steve) Shen and Guozhong Cao).
  • Joyce P. Yi, Psychology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 9. 120 Guthrie Annex III. (Prof. Peter Vitaliano).

Final Examinations


  • Thorarinn Sveinn Arnarson, Oceanography, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, July 19. 425 Ocean Sciences. “Importance of organic-mineral interactions on preservation of organic matter in marine sediments: A density fractionation and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy approach.” (Prof. Richard Keil).
  • Michael John Bonham, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 14. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Identification of tumor cell growth inhibitory compounds within the herbal extract PC-SPES.” (Prof. Pete Nelson).
  • Ping-Hung Chou, Economics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 13. 302 C Savery. “Essays on Vietnamese hospital cost functions.” (Prof. Richard Parks).
  • Amy Lynn Costanza-Smith, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 21. 230 Social Work/Speech. “An investigation of sentence production, working memory and task demands in school-age children.” (Prof. Truman Coggins).
  • Elizabeth Rachel Escobedo, History, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 16. 306 Smith. “Mexican American home front: The politics of gender, culture, and community in World War II Los Angeles.” (Prof. Susan Glenn).
  • John Albert Flynn, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 21. 443 EE1. “Computation and architectures for array receivers in large delay-doppler spreading.” (Prof. James Ritcey).
  • Roberta Susan Gold, History, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 20. 203E Smith. “City of tenants: New York’s housing struggles and the challenge to postwar America, 1945-1974.” (Prof. Suzanne Lebsock).
  • Chanam Lee, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, July 15. 100 Gould. “Built environment and active living.” (Prof. Anne Vernez Moudon).
  • Scott Eric Lemieux, Political Science, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 20. 40 Smith. “Constitutional politics and the political impact of abortion litigation: Judicial power and judicial independence in comparative perspective.” (Prof. Michael McCann).
  • Anita Kristine Lenges, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. 112A Miller. “Elementary school teachers learning about their students’ mathematical ideals and practices.” (Prof. Elham Kazemi).
  • Graeme W. Lufkin, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 20. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Simulations of giant planet migration in gaseous circumstellar disks.” (Prof. Thomas Quinn).
  • Emilio Mayorga, Oceanography, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, July 9. 425 Ocean Sciences. “Isotopic constraints on sources and cycling of riverine dissolved inorganic carbon in the Amazon Basin.” (Prof. Jeff Richey).
  • Michael Andres McMurray, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 22. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Age-induced genomic instability in budding yeast.” (Prof. Daniel Gottschling).
  • Matthew S. Munson, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 21. 303 Electrical Engineering. “Controlling mass transport in microfluidic channels.” (Prof. Paul Yager).
  • Micaela Schnitzler Parker, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 20. 123 Marine Sciences. “Photorespiration in marine diatoms: Molecular markers, environmental effects and ecological consequences.” (Prof. E. Virginia Armbrust).
  • Rachel Amanda Pottinger, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, July 19. 303 Allen. “Processing queries and merging schemas in support of data integration.” (Profs. Philip Bernstein and Alon Halevy).
  • Yongshao Ruan, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 21. 403 Allen Center. “Efficient inference: A machine learning approach.” (Prof. Henry Kautz).
  • Amy Katherine Schmid, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 9. K069 Health Sciences. “Characterization of the stress responses of the radioresistant bacterium Deinoccoccus radiodurans: Identification of three novel heat shock regulators.” (Prof. Mary Lidstrom).
  • Manyuan Shen, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. noon Thursday, July 22. M306 Electrical Engineering. “Space-time processing and coding in OFDM(A) system.” (Prof. Hui Liu).
  • Igor Tatarinov, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 20. 403 Allen Center. “Semantic data sharing with a peer data management system.” (Prof. Alon Halevy).
  • Sung-Ho Yun, Economics, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, July 15. 302C Savery. “Essays on information management and supervisory opportunism.” (Profs. Fahad Khalil and Jacques Lawarree).
  • Zheng Zhang, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 16. F643 Health Sciences. “Semiparametric least squares analysis of the receiver operating characteristic curve.” (Prof. Margaret Pepe).