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August 22, 2006

Notices

2003 UW Directory

How to update the UW Faculty/Staff Directory


(http://www.washington.edu/home/peopledir/): UW employees can update address information online with Employee Self-Service (ESS) on MyUW (http://myuw.washington.edu/). Select the Faculty/Staff tab, then find the Employee Personal Services box and select Employee Self-Service, or contact the departmental payroll coordinator to update information in the staff directory.


How to update the UW Office Directory


(http://www.washington.edu/admin/directory/): Contact your office listing coordinator to correct any information in the online UW Office Directory. Send e-mail to uwdir@u.washington.edu to learn your listing coordinator’s name, to be designated as a listing coordinator, or to obtain help updating or creating new entries.


ADAI Grants


The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute is soliciting applications from UW faculty for its Small Grants program, which supports alcohol and drug abuse research projects by UW faculty. The principal goal of the ADAI Small Grants Program is to stimulate research by providing initial funding for promising pilot projects, which may ultimately be developed into full research studies with outside grant support. New and established researchers are encouraged to apply. The maximum amount funded is $20,000.


The next deadline for submission is Oct. 15. Guidelines and FAQs regarding the application process are available on the ADAI Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/adai. 



Other News


Language Exchange Opportunities


We would like your help if you are a fluent speaker of English who is interested in meeting and helping international students studying English. This would be a way of gaining experience for future overseas or ESL teaching, fulfilling community service requirements or developing a language/culture exchange. The two different types of volunteer opportunities are:


Conversation Exchange Partner: Fluent English speakers are matched with students, based on language/culture exchange interests or by general English practice. Meeting arrangements are made by the participating individuals.


In-Class Facilitator: Fluent English speakers come to our conversation, American culture, or academic English classes to assist our English language teachers in providing conversation practice for students. The class sections usually have about 14 students per class from different countries. These students often don’t have a chance to practice their English with a fluent speaker. Therefore, we like to offer them this chance in the classroom. Due to the large number of participants, it is important that volunteers be assigned to particular class sections.


For both opportunities, we ask volunteers to provide 10 sessions total, or a once per week commitment.


At the end of the quarter, volunteers can request a letter documenting work in our program.


For more information, contact:

Michele Norton, Language Exchange Program Coordinator
University of Washington
English Language Programs
Box 354232
Seattle, WA 98195-4232
206-685-6355 or send e-mail to langex@u.washington.edu  



Blood drives


Friday, August 23 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.




Degree Exams


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


General Examinations





  • Joy Ellen Bagley, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 5. K350 Health Sciences. (Prof. Trisha Davis).
  • Chung-Jen James Chou, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Craig Beeson).
  • Shohini Ghosh, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. Craig Beeson).
  • Joseph J. Hannah, Geography, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9. 412A Smith (Starlight Room). (Prof. Lucy Jarosz).
  • Sung-Kwan Joo, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25. M406 EE. (Prof. Chen-Ching Liu).
  • Taeik Kim, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30. 403 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. David Allstot).
  • Sophie Mary Lehar, Immunology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23. H562 Health Sciences. (Prof. Michael Bevan).
  • Johnnie J. Orozco, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 16. C1M-015 FHCRC. (Profs. Patrick Stayton and Denise Galloway).
  • Ki-Young Shin, Political Science, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26. 40 Smith. (Prof. Joel Migdal).
  • John Francis Timmerman, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3. 109 Benson. (Prof. James Seferis).
  • Lisa Marie Wiester, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Cecilia Giachelli).
  • Zhongju Zhang, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 9. 367 Mackenzie. (Prof. Debabrata Dey).

Final Examinations



  • Jinbo Chen, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 26. F643 Health Sciences. “Semiparametric efficient and inefficient estimation for the auxiliary outcome problem with the conditional mean model.” (Prof. Norman Breslow).
  • Eric Nicholas Gilbert, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28. 117 Benson. “Interlayer modified prepreg sytems for customized density applications.” (Prof. James Seferis).
  • Rosalina Dee James, Pathology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23. D209 Health Sciences. “The cloning of SMC1 alpha in mouse and analysis of its role in mammalian mitotic cohesion and localization in male meiotic cells.” (Prof. Christine Disteche).
  • Yvonne Sarah Lin, Pharmacy – Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18. K069 Health Sciences. “Characterizing the variability in CYP3A – mediated metabolism and expression: Influence of genetics and probe substrate selection.” (Prof. Kenneth Thummel).
  • Tamir M. Moustafa, Political Science, Ph.D. noon Wednesday, Sept. 4. 317 Thomson. “Law versus the state: The expansion of constitutional power in Egypt, 1980–2001.” (Prof. Joel Migdal).
  • Robin B. Rickard, Political Science, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1. 40A Smith. “Islam and civil society in Indonesia: The case of the Nahdlatul Ulama.” (Prof. Daniel Lev).
  • Benjamin Baker Smith, Political Science, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3. 317 Thomson. “Hard times in the land of plenty: Oil booms and opposition in late developing states.” (Prof. Joel Migdal).
  • Chenhang Sun, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26. 117 Benson. “Surface energetics and acid-base properties of modified and unmodified mineral oxides.” (Prof. John Berg).
  • Didem Tureli, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23. M306 Electrical Engineering. “Resource allocation for multicarrier communications.” (Prof. Hui Liu).
  • Alastair Wolman, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30. 322 Sieg. “Sharing and caching characteristics of internet content.” (Prof. Henry Levy).
  • Ming Ye, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30. M306 Electrical Engineering. “Robust visual motion analysis: Piecewise-smooth optical flow and motion-based detection and tracking.” (Profs. Linda Shapiro and Robert Haralick).

  • Ping Zhao, Pharmacy – Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24. K069 Health Sciences. “The influence of alcohol on acetaminophen hepatotoxicity: CYP2E1 induction and selective mitochondrial glutathione depletion.” (Prof. John Slattery).