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April 17, 2003

Notices

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. A brief description of the two different types of volunteer opportunities follows.

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 their 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 drive
Hosted by Community & Environmental Planning – Friday, April 18 from 9 a.m. to noon and from 12:45 to 3 p.m. in the big, white Puget Sound Blood Center bus parked on University and 40th (on the west side of Gould Hall). Please sign up by sending an e-mail to Heather or just show up when you have an hour between classes.

Give blood, get cookies! Even if you have been denied the opportunity to donate blood during previous drives, please sign up and go through the intake process. The acceptance parameters are continually changing. If you are not eligible to donate you can still help by letting people in your other classes know about our blood drive.

If you have questions please ask or check out the Puget Sound Blood Center Web site: http://www.psbc.org/. The eligibility link is in the upper right corner of their home page.

Bone marrow donation
Puget Sound Blood Center is a donor recruitment center for the National Marrow Donor Program. For a listing of the scheduled Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drives, please call  206-292-1897 or 1-800 DONATE-1, or see the bone marrow drive calendar at www.psbc.org.

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


General Examinations



  • Kyle E. Allen, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 23. H074 Health Sciences.   (Prof. Kent Kunze).

  • Justin Toshiyuki Goshi, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 18. 003 EE1.   (Prof. Richard Ladner).

  • Sushant Jain, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 30. 322 Sieg.   (Prof. Gaetano Borriello).

  • Roger Alan Kiers, Anthropology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 23. M40 Denny.   (Prof. Julie Stein).

  • Roni A. Kopelman, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, April 18. 239 Chemistry.   (Prof. Natia Frank).

  • Marie O. Le Guilly, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. 134 Mechanical Engineering.   (Prof. Minoru Taya).

  • Gregory Stephan Lee, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24. 403 EE/CSE.   (Prof. Blake Hannaford).

  • Keunwoo Lee, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, April 21. 322 Sieg.   (Prof. Craig Chambers).

  • Brendan John Mccullough, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1. BB1602 Health Sciences.   (Prof. Bruce Tempel).

  • Breeana L. Mitchell, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, April 18. D5-110 FHCRC day campus.   (Prof. Paul Lampe).

  • Susan L. Neely-Barnes, Social Work, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 1. 306 Social Work.   (Prof. Maureen Marcenko).

  • Negin A. Nowbar-Nekahi, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, April 18. I-142 Health Sciences.   (Prof Lawrence Corey).

  • Tae Hyon Park, Education, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. 112A Miller.   (Prof. Tom Stritikus).

  • William Lawrence Portnoy, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 22. 322 Sieg.   (Prof. David Notkin).

  • Martha Kellogg Smith, Information School, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, April 21. 330W Mary Gates.   (Prof. Allyson Carlyle).

  • Laura Ann Snow, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, April 24. 52 Social Work/Speech.   (Prof. Lesley Olswang).

  • Sal G. Sofia, Music, D.M.A. 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 25. 28A Music.   (Prof. Richard Karpen).

  • Robert Scott Suydam, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, April 24. 113 Fisheries.   (Prof. Glenn VanBlaricom).

  • Dawnnica K. Williams, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, April 28. C2-161 FHCRC.   (Prof. Julie Overbaugh).

Final Examinations



  • Yoram Keyes Bauman, Economics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, April 25. 301/302 Savery.  “The effects of environmental policy on technological change in pollution control.” (Prof. Robert Halvorsen).

  • Brian James Bennion, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 30. Hogness Auditorium, Health Sciences.  “Computational studies of protein stabilization and denaturation by small molecules.” (Prof. Valerie Daggett).

  • Rebecca Lynn Billock, Music, D.M.A. 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 18. 206 Music.  “Selected intermediate piano pieces by seven women of the Twentieth Century.” (Prof. Craig Sheppard).
    n Michael Francis Canino, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. noon Friday, April 25. 107 Fisheries.  “Contrasting patterns of genetic population structure in Walleye Pollock, Theragra chalcogramma.” (Profs. Fred Utter and Paul Bentzen).

  • Karan Noyes Dawson, Department of Communication, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 30. 126 Communications.  “Self-construction of pharmacists through their use of labels for care recipients.” (Prof. Valerie Manusov).
    n Bradshaw Hovey, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 23. 25 Chemistry Library.  “Making the Portland way of planning:  The structural power of language:  Stories from community planning, 1969-2001.” (Prof. John Hancock).

  • Adrienne Louisa Huston, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, April 18. 123 Marine Sciences.  “Bacterial adaptation to the cold:  In situ activities of extracellular enzymes in the north water polynya and characterization of a cold-active aminopeptidase from colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H.” (Prof. Jody Deming).

  • Meta Maria Landys, Zoology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 29. 114 Kincaid.  “The role of baseline corticosterone levels in the regulation of avian migration.” (Prof. John Wingfield).

  • Hsuan Lee, Music, D.M.A. 9 a.m. Monday, April 28. Fishbowl, Music.  “Analysis of basic technique critical to violin playing.” (Prof. Ronald Patterson).

  • Sen Liu, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday, May 1. 243 Wilcox.  “Desing, synthesis and characterization of nonlinear optic chromophores for electro-optic materials.” (Prof. Alex K.Y. Jen).

  • Jennifer E. McLean, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 25. 203 Fisheries.  “Reproductive success of hatchery and wild steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss.” (Prof. Thomas Quinn).

  • Tanis Vye Mihalynuk, Nutritional Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 18. 305D Raitt.  “What is the essential nutrition information that should be included in medical school, residency and continuing medical education at the University of Washington?” (Prof. Michael Rosenfeld).

  • Timothy Price Moses, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 1. 112A Miller.  “Exploring the joint effects of two assumption violations on the standard test for homogeneous regression coefficients.” (Prof. Alan Klockars).

  • Pauline Laura Ripat, Classics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, April 18. 210 Denny.  “Prophecy and policy in Roman Egypt.” (Prof. Alain Gowing).

  • Lorna Grace Rozelle, Linguistics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 18. 311 Savery.  “Structure of sign language lexicons:  Inventory and distribution of handshape and location.” (Prof. Sharon Hargus).