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November 10, 2005

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Academic opportunities

Funding opportunity

The University of Washington Specialized Center of Research in Pharmacology of Drugs in Pregnancy (UWSCOR; supported by NICHD and ORWH) announces $10,000 for one year of research for projects on the pharmacology of drugs in pregnancy (UWSCOR).

Proposals should pursue novel research opportunities to obtain data that could serve as the basis of a major research grant application in the area of pharmacology of drugs in pregnancy. Applications that are synergistic or complementary to existing projects within the UWSCOR will receive higher priority.

A letter or email of intent to apply should be received by Dec.1. The deadline for applications is Jan, 10, 2006.

For more information and to view application guidelines visit our Web site at: http://depts.washington.edu/uwscor/funding.html. If you have any questions, please contact Amber Figgat via email to uwscor@u.washington.edu or by phone at 206-221-3623.

Applications wanted for IESUS grants

The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States. The deadline for applications is Nov. 15. For more information on application guidelines, please see the IESUS website at http://depts.washington.edu/iesus/ or direct questions to Kari Stephens via email (preferred method of contact) at iesus@u.washington.edu or call 206-685-9333 (please leave a voicemail).


Applicants wanted for exchange program

The University of Washington – University of Ljubljana Exchange Program invites applications from faculty and senior graduate students to be an academic visitor to the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia, during the 2006 calendar year. Visitors will give some lectures and will interact with Slovene faculty and students in their field of study. The visit must be completed by the end of 2006. The program has funds to support travel to Slovenia, and the host institution will pay living expenses while there. Two visitors, each staying for a two-week period, can be supported. Applicants should submit their c.v. and a letter explaining the purpose and academic value of the proposed visit. In addition, if the applicant has established any contacts with academics at the University of Ljubljana, the application should mention this. Deadline for applications: Nov. 15. Applications, and all questions concerning the program, should be addressed to: Professor Louis Wolcher, Law (campus mailbox 353020); email, wolcher@u.washington.edu.

Other news

Board of Regents Meeting

The University of Washington Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, in the Petersen Room on the fourth floor of the Allen Library, 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.

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, presentations, and preparation for the TOEFL, TPEIC, and verbal parts of the GRE and GMAT. There are also daytime courses in reading, writing, grammar, speaking, listening, and vocabulary and idioms.

UWELP 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.

Study participants wanted

Mothers of African-American or Caucasian ethnicity and their 3-6 year old children needed for research study on how parents and children interact. $10 per session. UW Dept of Psychology. For more information, please call Dana Rhule, 206-240-8633.

Blood drives

Friday, Nov. 18, from 10 to 11:45 a.m. and 12:30 to 4 p.m. by the George Washington statue near Meany Hall.

Friday, Nov. 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 5:30 p.m. in Schmitz Hall on NE 41st Street.

Monday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 108 HUB.

Thursday, Dec. 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Stevens Way.

Degree Exams

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

General Examinations


  • Brian William Bainbridge, Oral Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 21. Health Sciences Ctr., D-564. (Prof. Richard Darveau).
  • Anne Elizabeth Bonds, Geography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14. Smith Hall, 409. (Prof. Victoria Lawson).
  • Benjamin C. Brody, Music, D.M.A. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. Music Bldg., 103. (Prof. Geoffrey Boers).
  • Victoria T. Browning, English, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15. Padelford Hall, A-101C. (Prof. Miceal Vaughan).
  • Beibei Cai, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. Health Sciences Ctr., T-530. (Prof. Zhengui Xia).
  • Kari Rose Ceaicovschi, Classics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. Denny Hall, 210. (Prof. James Clauss).
  • Krisda Chaemsaithong, English, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15. Padelford Hall, A-106. (Prof. Gail Stygall).
  • Domin Chan, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec 1. Health Sciences Ctr., H-670. Prof. Chuan-Fen Liu).
  • Eric Y. Chan, Microbiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 28. Health Sciences Ctr., G-324. (Prof. Michael Katze).
  • Jeremy Ryan Cooper, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15. Health Sciences Ctr., G-417. (Prof. Linda Wordeman).
  • Dominic J. Corva, Geography, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29. Smith Hall, 409. (Profs. Matthew Sparke and Victoria Lawson).
  • Teagan E. Decker, English, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14. Padelford Hall, A-106. (Prof. Gail Stygall).
  • Timothy T. Fister, Physics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17. Physics/Astronomy Bldg., A-114. (Prof. Gerald Seidler).
  • Jennifer Olivia Foley, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16. Electrical Engineering 1, 303. (Prof. Paul Yager).
  • Catherine Winchester Foster, Anthropology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14. Denny Hall, 401. (Prof. Donald Grayson).
  • Deborah A. Glickson, Oceanography, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17. Marine Sciences Bldg., 123. (Prof. Deborah Kelley).
  • Alejandro Jose Gonzalez, Nutritional Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29. FHCRC, M4-B102. (Prof. Emily White).
  • Edwin Toshio Hamada, Education, Ed.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. Miller Hall, M-210. (Prof. Bradley Portin).
  • Hsiu-Feng Hsueh, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14. Health Sciences Ctr., T-605. (Prof. Margaret Heitkemper).
  • James Richard Hull, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14. Electrical Engineering Bldg. 443. (Prof. David Castner).
  • Stefanie L. Iverson Cabral, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17. Harborview R&T Bldg., 601. (Prof. Patricia Totten).
  • Yona Keich, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. Health Sciences Ctr., T-480. (Prof. Jacqueline Starr).
  • Paul Alexander Keire, Pathology, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. 815 Mercer Ave., SLU Bldg., 337.   (Prof. Thomas Wight).
  • Stephanie Jane King, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. Miller Hall, 402-P.   (Prof. Jim Mazza).
  • Yuh-Pey Lin, Music, D.M.A. 3:40 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 14. Music Bldg., 103.   (Prof. Tim Salzman).
  • Jing Liu, Biological Structure, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. Health Sciences Ctr., G-522.   (Prof. Wenqing Xu).
  • Jared E. Lopes, Immunology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec 1. Health Sciences Ctr., H-464.   (Prof. Steven Ziegler).
  • Shuai Lu, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday,  Nov. 18. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303.   (Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawi).
  • Robert Griffith O’neill, Physics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday,  Nov. 17. Physics/Astronomy Bldg.,C-421.   (Prof. Thomas Jarboe).
  • Daniel Dimitrios Barnet Perrakis, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday,  Nov. 17. Winkenwerder Hall, 107.   (Prof. James Agee).
  • William Henry Roberts, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday,  Nov. 23. Atmospheric Sciences-Geophysics Bldg., 406.  (Prof. David Battisti).
  • Thomas Edwin Robey, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 22. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 403.   (Prof. Charles Murry).
  • Mindy L. Schaffner, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 28. Health Sciences Ctr., T-529.   (Prof. Bobbie Berkowitz).
  • Hwang-Ruey Song, Economics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 15. Savery Hall, 302-C.   (Prof. Fahad Khalil).
  • Kristan K. Steffen, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 22. Health Sciences Ctr., J-412.   (Prof. Brian Kennedy).
  • Silvia Tejeda, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 29. Health Sciences Ctr., H-670.   (Prof. Engelberta Thompson).
  • Kalyan Chakravarthy Vinnakota, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 28. Health Sciences Ctr., BB-1404.   (Prof. Martin Kushmerick).
    Final Examinations
  • Sandra Lynn Austin, Education, Ed.D 10 a.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. Miller Hall, M-210.  “Differentiating Professional Development for Teacher Success: A Study of Effective Teachers” (Prof. Mike Copland).
  • Brian Ray Baer, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 15. Health Sciences Ctr. K-069.  “Autocatalytic Mechanism and Functional Consequences of Covalent Heme Attachment in CYP4B1” (Prof. Allan Rettie).
  • Elizabeth Geralyn Bonjean, Drama, Ph.D. 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec 1. Hutchinson Hall, 150.  “In the Shadow of Civil Wars: Performances of Cultural Memory” (Prof. Sarah Bryant-Bertail).
  • Luke Kenneth Butler, Biology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday,  Nov. 17. Burke Museum, 112.  “Interpreting Within- and Among-Species Variation in the Structure of Body Feathers Using Contrasts in Ecology, Behavior, and Life-History” (Prof. Sievert Rohwer).
  • Min Chu, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec 1. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 403.  “Phase-Shifting Techniques for Wireless Multiple-Antenna Transmitter Applications” (Prof. David Allstot).
  • Ann M. Derleth, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 28. Health Sciences Ctr., H-670.  “Health Related Quality of Life: A Comparison of Indices Derived from Health Status Measures” (Prof. Paula Diehr).
  • Kimberly A. Firestone, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 14. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Frequency-Agile Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering Studies of Nonlinear Optical Chromophores” (Prof. Larry Dalton).
  • Kelly A. Grant, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. Health Sciences Ctr., K-069.  “Regulation of Latent Mechanosensory Hair Cell Precursors” (Prof. David Raible).
  • Elizabeth J. Gribble, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. UWMC Roosevelt,  228.  “Cell Cycle Inhibition as a Mode of Abnormal Development: The Role of Cell Cycle Checkpoint Proteins and Cyclin Kinase Inhibitors in Neurodevelopmental Toxicant Defense” (Prof. Elaine Faustman).
  • Michael D. Huber, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 5:15 p.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 22. Health Sciences Ctr., K-069.  “Structure-Function Analysis and Substrate Specific Inhibition of RecQ Helicoises” (Prof. Nancy Maizels).
  • Pamela Carol Jensen, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday,  Nov. 17. Fishery Science Bldg., 107.  “A Molecular Dissection of the Mating System of the Dungeness Crab (Brachyura: Cancridae), with Observations on Mating Behavior” (Prof. Paul Bentzen).
  • Joshua Jon Latterell, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday,  Nov. 15. Fishery Science Bldg., 102.  “The Natural History and Dynamics of Large Wood in the Queets River, Washington, USA” (Prof. Robert Naiman).
  • Winnie Wing Yee Lau, Oceanography, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday,  Nov. 18. Marine Sciences Bldg., 123.  “Understanding Interactions Between Marine Bacteria and Phytoplankton:  The Influence of Phytoplankton Photorespiration on Diversity and Succession of Glycolate-Utilizing Bacteria” (Profs. Virginia Armbrust and Richard Keil).
  • Nesrin Ozalp, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday,  Nov. 18. Mechanical Engineering Bldg., 219-A.  “Energy, Material and Emissions Flow Models of the U.S. Chemical Industry” (Prof. Barry Hyman).
  • Carole Butler Rudra, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday,  Nov. 18. Health Sciences Ctr., F-348.  “Periconceptional Ambient Air Pollutant Exposure and Subsequent Preeclampsia Risk” (Prof. Michelle Williams).
  • Todd Richard Seamons, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday,  Nov. 16. Fishery Science Bldg. 102.  “The Mating System of Steelhead and the Effects of Length and Arrival Date on Steelhead Reproductive Success” (Prof. Thomas Quinn).
  • Hua Wang, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday,  Nov. 21. Electrical Engineering 1, 403.  “Control of Protein-Surface, Protein-Protein, and Cell-Matrix Interactions for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds” (Prof. Shaoyi Jiang).