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February 24, 2005

Notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY

Grant applications wanted
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., March 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.

Ethnic studies grants available
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning scholarly projects on ethnic issues in the United States. The deadline for applications is April 15. For more information on application guidelines, please see the IESUS website at http://depts.washington.edu/iesus/ or direct questions to Carol Wong via email at iesus@u.washington.edu or by phone at 206- 543-2199 (voicemail).

WTC grants available
The Washington Technology Center is currently accepting applications for its Spring 2005 Research and Technology Development (RTD) Awards program. WTC awards more than $1 million annually to projects that partner Washington companies with academic and nonprofit research teams. The RTD grant program provides state funds for research projects with near-term potential for commercialization.

Grant applicants can receive up to $240,000 through the RTD program. Notice of Intent deadline is March 10, and proposals are due on April 21.

Early-stage financial support is valuable in helping companies fund proof-of-concept research and development. WTC provides up to

80 percent of the cost for companies to work with leading researchers in the state. Securing an RTD grant provides credibility and prestige to companies and researchers’ projects and helps them attract follow-on funding from federal contractors, investors and corporate partners.

RTD grants are given to collaborative research teams. Teams are composed of a Washington company and an eligible university or nonprofit research partner. WTC accepts proposals for research projects in any technical area or industry. Preference is given to small companies (250 employees or less). Proposals are evaluated by a team of industry and academic professionals on the basis of technical merit, economic impact and commercial viability.

Awards are announced in June. For more information on the Spring 2005 RTD awards or for application materials, please visit the RTD Grants page on WTC’s Web site at http://www.watechcenter.org/re/rtd or contact Russell Paez, 206-616-3102, rpaez@watechcenter.org.

OTHER NEWS

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 conversational skills, listening, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, English in business and in academic writing, and preparation for the TOEIC. 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 206-543-6242 or e-mail uwelp@u.washington.edu

Study participants wanted
The University of Washington Northwest Lipid Research Clinic is conducting a study to see if an over-the-counter niacin supplement (Slo-Niacin) improves cholesterol levels and HDL when taken with a low dose of atorvastatin (Lipitor). Men and women with LDL-cholesterol over 130 and low HDL may be eligible. Cholesterol medication is provided for 6 months at no cost. For more information call Barbara at 206-744-9204.

Directory available
The 2005 Academic & Administrative Offices Directory is available through University Stores. The item number is UWDIRECT and the cost is $4 per copy. Directory information may also be accessed online at http://www.washington.edu/home/directories.html 

Blood drive

Friday, March, 4 from 1 – 3:15 p.m. and 4– 7 p.m. in the Terry Hall lounge.


Degree Exams

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

General Examinations


  • Giorgia Aiello, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 1. Communications Bldg., 102E. (Prof. Barbara Warnick).
  • Umut Aydin, Political Science, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, Feb 25. Smith Hall, 40. (Prof. James Caporaso).
  • Benjamin L. Beckstead, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 2. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303. (Prof. Cecilia Giachelli).
  • Rosalind J. Billharz, Microbiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 8. Rosen Bldg., 317. (Prof. Michael Katze).
  • John N. Carr, Geography, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 8. Smith Hall, 4th floor Starlight Room. (Prof. Steve Herbert).
  • Alexander J. Coverdill, Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 1. Physics/Astronomy Bldg., A-42C. (Prof. John Wingfield).
  • Jo Whitman Diamond, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 8. Electrical Engineering Bldg 1., 403. (Prof. Akira Ishimaru).
  • Emily Rose Ernst, Political Science, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 2. Smith Hall, 40A. (Prof. George Lovell).
  • Jessica L. Foley, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Feb 28. Fisheries Center, 21. (Prof. Shahram Vaezy).
  • Irina Gendelman, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Feb 28. Communications Bldg., 102E. (Prof. Richard Kielbowicz).
  • David Bryce Grimes, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Paul Allen Center, 203. (Prof. Rajesh Rao).
  • Matthew Steven Holdren, Pathology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 9. Health Sciences Ctr., Pathology Conf. Room. (Prof. Tony Parks).
  • Alexandra D. Holland, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Benson Hall, 109. (Prof. Mary Lidstrom).
  • Luke Milburn Judge, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, March 10. Health Sciences Ctr., G-417. (Prof. Jeffrey Chamberlain).
  • Maria Nicolajevna Kozhevnikova, Economics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 2. Savery Hall, 302C. (Prof. Yoram Barzel).
  • Abhishek Pradeep Kulkarni, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. Benson Hall, 109. (Prof.Samson Jenekhe).
  • Beth A. Lindsey, Physics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. Physics/Astronomy Bldg., C-211. (Prof. Paula Heron).
  • Adam D. Mcbrady, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 8. Bagley Hall, 319. (Prof. Robert Synovec).
  • Tema J. Milstein, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 9. Communications Bldg., 102E. (Prof. David Silver).
  • Patrick N. Ngatchou, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 403. (Profs. Mohamed El-Sharkawi & Deirdre Meldrum).
  • Igor V. Novosselov, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. Mechanical Engineering Bldg., 219. (Prof. Philip Malte).
  • David W. Pantalone, Psychology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, Feb 28. 3937 15th Ave. NE, Conference Room. (Prof. Jane Simoni).
  • Kathryn Ann Petek, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 3. More Hall, 119. (Profs. Pedro Arduino and Robert Holtz).
  • Elya E. Prystowsky, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Health Sciences Ctr., F-348. (Prof. Stephen Hawes).
  • Hironori Sasada, Political Science, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Feb 28. Smith Hall, 40. (Prof. Aseem Prakash).
  • Daniela J. Shebitz, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Center for Urban Horticulture, Douglas Classroom. (Prof. Sarah Reichard).
  • Christopher D. Stover, Music, D.M.A. 9 a.m. Monday, Feb 28. Music Bldg., “Fishbowl.” (Prof. Don Immel).
  • Larkin L. Strong, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, March 3. Health Sciences Ctr., H-670. (Prof. Beti Thompson).
  • Steven James Swanson, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 9. Paul Allen Center, 203. (Prof. Mark Oskin).
  • Phillip Tai, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, March 7. Health Sciences Ctr., J-675. (Prof. Stephen Hauschka).
  • Jeremy N. Thomas, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 1. Condon Hall, 311. (Prof. Robert Holzworth).
  • Lisa A. Thornhill, English, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, March 4. Padelford Hall, A-101C. (Prof. Juan Guerra).
  • Wayne Lawrence Turnberg, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 8. Health Sciences Ctr., T-663. (Prof. William Daniell).
  • Ted S. Wayland, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 4. Padelford Hall, A-106. (Prof. Jessica Burstein).
  • Martin Welzel, Music, D.M.A. 8:30 a.m. Friday, Feb 25. Music Bldg., “Fishbowl”. (Prof. Carole Terry).
  • John White, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 2. Chemistry Bldg., 102. (Profs. Pradipsinh Rathod and Marilyn Parsons).
  • Zizhen Yao, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 2. Paul Allen Center, 303. (Prof. Walter Ruzzo).

Final Examinations


  • Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez, Anthropology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, Feb 25. Denny Hall, M-32. “Imaginaries and desires: Transcultural “love affairs” in Guatemala.” (Prof. Miriam Kahn).
  • Dylan Casey Chivian, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Hitchcock Hall, 132. “Application of homologous information to protein structure prediction.” (Prof. David Baker).
  • I-Ting Chow, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, March 3. Electrical Engineering Bldg., EE-403. “Functional study of ClpB95 and ClpB80, the alternative translation products of the E.coli ClpB transcript.” (Prof. Francois Baneyx).
  • Ronald Eugene Cunningham, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, March 7. Miller Hall, 423-A. “An examination of critical risk and protective factors associated with exposure to violence and outcomes of mental health for adolescents.” (Prof. James Mazza).
  • Steven Francis Jr Diaz, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, Feb 25. Chemistry Bldg., 102. “Expanding the boundaries of measuring the micorcalorimetric heats of adsorption of metals onto hydroxyltated oxides, carbides, metals and polymer substrates.” (Prof. Charles Campbell).
  • Deron Andrew Ferguson, Geography, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 2. Smith Hall, 409. “An event-historic analysis of short-term U.S. regional employment adjustment, 1975-1999.” (Prof. James Harrington).
  • Ruth Marcie Fruland, Education, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 1. Fluke Hall, Bowen Conference Room. “Systems thinking and contemporary controversies for teaching and collaboration: What do student teachers think?” (Prof. Nathalie Gehrke).
  • Ayesha Lynn Gray, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, March 7. Fishery Science Bldg., 102. “The Salmon River estuary: Restoring tidal inundation and tracking ecosystem response.” (Prof. Charles Simenstad).
  • Geoffrey John Hulten, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, March 4. Paul Allen Center, 203. “Mining massive data streams.” (Prof. Pedro Domingos).
  • Danielle Lorraine Ippolito, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, March 4. Health Sciences Ctr., RR-134. “Regulation of G-protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium channels by tyrosine phosphorylation.” (Prof. Charles Chavkin).
  • Richard Paul Jackson, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, March 7. Communications Bldg., 102E. “Searching for a voice of authority in newspaper writing.” (Prof. Nancy Rivenburgh).
  • Natalya V. Kalendarev, Music, D.M.A. 12:30 a.m. Friday, Feb 25. Music Bldg., “Fishbowl”. “Medtner – his beliefs, influences and work.” (Prof. Robin McCabe).
  • Rie Komuro, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 3:40 p.m. Friday, March 4. Anderson Hall, 22. “Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for ecological process models.” (Prof. David Ford).
  • George Steven Laszlo, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 7. Health Sciences Ctr., T-747. “Mechanisms of signal transduction and gene induction by leukemia inhibitory factor.” (Prof. Neil Nathanson).
  • Robin Diane Lesher, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8. Anderson Hall, 22. “An environmental gradient model predicts the spatial distribution of potential habitat for Hypogymnia duplicata in the Cascade Mountains of northwestern Washington.” (Profs. Jerry Franklin and Joseph Ammirati).
  • Zhao Li, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Paul Allen Ctr., AE-108. “SPICE-Accurate interative methods for efficient time-domain simulation of VLSI circuits with strong parasitic effects.” (Prof. Chuan-Jin Shi).
  • Jaewook Park, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. More Hall, 229. “An integrated approach to lifeline performance evaluation.” (Prof. Dorothy Reed).
  • Brandy Parris, English, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10. Padelford Hall, A-106. “Emotional labor, women’s work, and sentimental capital in nineteenth-century American fiction.” (Prof. Mark Patterson).
  • Marica Pelanti, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 8. More Hall, 221. “Wave propagation algorithms for multicomponent compressible flows with applications to volcanic jets.” (Prof. Randall Leveque).
  • Francisco Alberto Perez, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 4. Health Sciences Ctr., K-069. “Generation and evaluation of Parkin-deficient mice as a model for Parkinson’s Disease.” (Prof. Richard Palmiter).
  • Orakanoke Phanraksa, Law, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, March 4. William Gates Hall, 441. “Uniformity of the patent policy in technology transfer: To what extent the Bayh-Dole concept can be adpated for technology transfer in Thailand.” (Prof. Toshiko Takenaka).
  • Chootima Ratisoontorn, Oral Biology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2. Health Sciences Ctr., B-220. “TWIST1 Osteobiology: Implications for the pathogenesis of Saethre-Chotzen syndrome.” (Prof. Michael Cunningham).
  • John Stuart Read, Business Administration, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Mackenzie Hall, 367. “An investigation of entrepreneurial expertise: Theory, strategy and performance.” (Prof. Douglas MacLachlan).
  • Robert Maxwell Robinson, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, March 7. Health Sciences Ctr., T-435. “Splicing signals in caenorhabditis elegans: Candidate exonic splicing enhancer motifs.” (Prof. Philip Green).
  • Yanfang Shen, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 443. “Annealing adaptive search with hit-and-run sampling methods for global optimization.” (Prof. Zelda Zabinsky).
  • Bing Yun Sun, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Chemistry Bldg., 102. “Cell signaling studies with controlled stimulation by micro/nano-capsules and laser manipulation.” (Prof. Daniel Chiu).
  • George Robert Votroubek, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10. Aerospace & Engineering Research Bldg., 130. “Tomographically aided study of field reversed configuration rotation and stability.” (Prof. Alan Hoffman).
  • Catherine K. Yeung, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb 25. Health Sciences Bldg., K-069. “Structure and function of the human FMOs: Tissue localization, comparative modelling, and kinetic parameters.” (Prof. Allan Rettie).