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February 16, 2006

Official Notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI grant deadlines

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from UW 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. Application guidelines are available on the ADAI website at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.

OTHER NEWS

Survey for Sexual Minorities Group Therapy

Hall Health is proposing a therapy group for either winter or spring quarter 2006 and would appreciate any assistance in designing this group. This group will be located at the Mental Health Clinic in Hall Health Primary Care Center. Each session will be 90 minutes. The group will be offered for a period of eight weeks. Issues will focus around lesbian/gay/bisexual orientations and life experiences. We would appreciate your feedback by completing a short survey.

Please fill-out the survey in one of three ways:


More information will be forthcoming on this group in the near future once we have finalized its purpose and content based on your interest and input to this survey. If you are interested in participating in the group or have questions, please contact Nathan Miles at 206-897-1467 or Dr. Micheal Kane at 206-221-2449. Kane can also be reached by email: mkanew@u.washington.edu. Send surveys to Dr. Kane, Hall Health Primary Care Center, Campus Box 354410.

Subjects needed for diesel exhaust study

Healthy Research Subjects who are not thin needed to look at the effect of diesel exhaust on health. University of Washington Dept of Environmental and Occupation Health is looking for healthy 18-49 yr old non-smokers. Study takes at least six weeks and involves two screening visits and three full day or overnight visits. Subjects will perform lung function tests, have arm ultrasounds, provide blood and urine samples and have heart rhythm/rate measured. Volunteers receive up to $750. Call 206-616-6525 for more information.

Subjects needed for canker sore study

Men and women who regularly get canker sores needed to participate in a two-week UW research study to determine the natural course of canker sore healing. Participants will be compensated up to $85 for completing the study. The study involves a total of six 30-minute visits within a two-week time period. Subjects must be at least 18 years old. For more information, contact Kellie at 206-685-8132 or kellieo@u.washington.edu  

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 206-543-6242 or e-mail uwelp@u.washington.edu.

Blood drives


  • Thursday, Feb. 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 5:30 p.m. on the north side of Schmitz Hall.
  • Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. on Stevens Way, across from Lewis Hall.
  • Monday, Feb. 27 from 10 a.m. to noon and 12:45 to 4 p.m. in front of By George, in the bus parked adjacent to the George Washington statue.
  • Monday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in 108 HUB.
  • Monday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. in the bus parked in the parking lot by the Fisheries building.

DEGREE EXAMS

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

General Examinations


  • Veronica J. Berrocal, Statistics, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, March 2. Padelford Hall, C-301. (Prof. Adrian Raftery).
  • Grady Ray Blacken, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Chemistry Bldg., 102. (Prof. Frank Turecek).
  • Chun-I Chen, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17. Paul Allen Ctr. for CSE., AE-105. (Prof. Howard Chizeck).
  • Yoonsoo Chun, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28. Wilcox Hall, 243. (Prof. Kannan Krishnan).
  • Anthony N. Docan, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, March 2. Communications Bldg., 102-E. (Prof. Valerie Manusov).
  • Jennifer L. Doering, Music, D.M.A. 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 1. Music Bldg., 101. (Prof. John Rahn).
  • Phillip M. Edwards, Information School, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. Mary Gates Hall, 310D. (Prof. Joseph Janes).
  • Kenyatta Niobe Reid Etchison, Psychology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23. Guthrie Annex 3, 120. (Prof. Ana Mari Cauce).
  • Tristan Adaon Goldman, History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. Smith Hall, 320. (Prof. Carol Thomas).
  • Gerald Hoff, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, March 2. Fisheries Teaching & Research Ctr., 103. (Prof. Theodore Pietsch).
  • James Richard Hull, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. Bagley Hall, 464. (Prof. David Castner).
  • Thomas Kevin Johnson, Scandinavian Studies, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. Raitt Hall, 314. (Prof. Patricia Conroy).
  • Meng Li, Pharmacy – Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. Health Sciences Ctr., H-272-G. (Prof. Joanne Wang).
  • Chih-Yuan Lu, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Roberts Hall, 321. (Prof. Fumio Ohuchi).
  • Christina J. Maranto, Biology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. Kincaid Hall, A-042-C. (Prof.Julia Parrish).
  • Laurie S. McCarthy, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27. Miller Hall, 112-A. (Prof. Reed Stevens).
  • Moise Ndao, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27. Chemistry Bldg., 339. (Prof. Gary Drobny).
  • Chung Caryn Park, Education, Ed.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28. Miller Hall, M-210. (Prof. Manka Varghese).
  • William Henry Roberts, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28. Atmospheric Sciences/Geophysics Bldg., 406. (Prof. David Battisti).
  • Hitomi Sakano, Medicine Concurrent, PhD/MD. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. FHCRC, A2M-025. (Prof. Linda Buck).
  • Pahnit Seriburi, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, March 2. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 403. (Prof. Deirdre Meldrum).
  • Claire Elizabeth Todd, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. Atmospheric Sciences/Geophysics Bldg., QRC 154. (Prof. John Stone).
  • Orapin Veerayutthwilai, Oral Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. Health Sciences Bldg., B-228. (Prof. Beverly Dale-Crunk).
  • Liang Xu, Mathematics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, March 2. Bagley Hall, 331-A. (Prof. James Burke).