May 15, 2003
Notices
UW Equal Opportunity Statement
The University of Washington reaffirms its policy of equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran or other eligible veteran. This policy applies to all programs and facilities, including, but not limited to, admissions, educational programs, employment, and patient and hospital services. Any discriminatory action can be a cause for disciplinary action. Discrimination is prohibited by Presidential Executive Order 11246 as amended, Washington State Gubernatorial Executive Orders 89-01 and 93-07, Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Washington State Law Against Discrimination RCW 49.60, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, State of Washington Gender Equity in Higher Education Act of 1989, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 as amended, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1972 as amended, other federal and state statutes, regulations, and University policy. Coordination of the compliance efforts of the University of Washington with respect to all of these laws and regulations is under the direction of the Assistant Provost for Equal Opportunity, Dr. Helen Remick, Equal Opportunity Office, Box 354560, 4045 Brooklyn Ave., N.E., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98105, telephone 206-685-3263/V or 206-543-6452/TTY, email eoo@u.washington.edu., http://www.washington.edu/admin/eoo/.
UW Accommodation Statement
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodations contact: Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu, http://www.washington.edu/admin/eoo/dso
Notice of Possible Rule Making
Preproposal Statement of Inquiry (per RCW 34.05.310)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 478–04 WAC, “Organization.”
Statutes Authorizing the University to Adopt Rules on This Subject: RCW 28B.20.130, 34.05.220, 34.05.330, and Chapter 42.30 RCW.
Reasons Why Rules on This Subject May Be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To bring the rules concerning meetings of the University of Washington’s Board of Regents up-to-date with current practices and consistent with the Board’s By-Laws, and to make corrections in organizational information.
Other Federal and State Agencies That Regulate This Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule With These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by sending written comments or inquiries to Rebecca Goodwin Deardorff, Director, Administrative Procedures Office, by one of the following routes:
U.S. mail: University of Washington, 4014 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA, 98105–6203;
Campus mail: Box 355509; E-mail: adminpro@u.washington.edu; Fax: 206–616–6294.
Board of Regents Meeting
The University of Washington Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.m. Friday, May 16, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall on the 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.
Study subjects wanted
University of Washington Division of Internal Medicine and Department of Adolescent Medicine
Healthy volunteer families are needed to participate in a research study about the impact of chronic fatigue syndrome on adolescents and young adults in the family. Healthy mothers and fathers (optional) who have at least one biological child 12 and older living in the household are eligible. The study involves a 4-5 hour visit at Children’s Hospital Cooperative Research Center. All family members will have a physical examination with blood draw, complete interviews and questionnaires, and will have brief tests of cognition and pain. Each person will be compensated $100. For more info, call Stephanie at (206) 521-1233 or email, sbhatz@u.washington.edu.
Online English Language Courses
The UW English Language Programs (UWELP) offers quarterly online courses in business English, academic English, and English for science and industry. These courses are designed primarily for non-native speakers of English.
Because of the convenience of studying at home, our online courses are attractive to UW employees who want to improve their sentence-level grammar and vocabulary. 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.
Potential students are encouraged to take the 10-minute self-placement test, available at www.uwelp.net/online, to know which courses would be appropriate for them.
For more information, call 206-543-6242 or e-mail uwelp@u.washington.edu.
Football season tickets available
Husky football faculty/staff seaon tickets are available for purchase. Please visit www.gohuskies.com or call the Husky Ticket Office at 206-543-2200 for eligibility criteria and application.
DEGREE EXAMS
Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations. Chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.
General Examinations
Final Examinations
- Molly Ann Bergman, Microbiology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. n Wednesday, May 28. T625 Health Sciences. “Host responses to salmonella typhimurium infection.” (Prof. Brad Cookson).
- Anne Wilson Bloom, Political Science, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. 40 Smith. “Taking on Goliath: Can U.S. courts give workers a trans-national voice?” (Prof. Michael McCann).
- Nongnut Boonyoung, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. T513 Health Sciences. “Health-seeking behaviors of southern Thai middle-aged women by type of health insurance.” (Prof. Marjorie Muecke).
- Arthur Ho-Yin Chan, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 16. 6th floor conference center, Applied Physics Laboratory. “Image-guided high intensity focused ultrasound treatment for uterine leiomyomata.” (Prof. Shahram Vaezy).
- Anoshua Chaudhuri, Economics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 20. Economics Large Conference Room. “Intended and unintended consequences of a maternal and child health program in rural Bangladesh: An investigation of anthropometric outcomes and intra-household spillovers.” (Profs. Elaina Rose and Anil Deolalikar).
- Mei-Ying Chen, Education, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 29. 112A Miller. “Contemporary women warriors: Ethnic, gender, and leadership development among Chinese American females.” (Prof. Geneva Gay).
- Jerome Cuny, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 27. 425 Ocean Sciences. “Labrador Sea boundary currents.” (Prof. Peter Rhines).
- Leslie Jean Dickmann, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 16. RR-134 Health Sciences. “Characterization of CYP2C9 residues important for conferring substrate specificity and inter-individual variability in drug metabolism.” (Prof. Allan Rettie).
- Maryah Stella Fram, Social Work, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, May 19. 116 Social Work. “Discussions of social capital: Social work, social structure, and the contextualization of poverty.” (Prof. Susan Kemp).
- Paul Froese, Sociology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, May 19. 110C Savery. “The great secularization experiment.” (Prof. Daniel Chirot).
- Daniel Roland Hahn, Zoology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 16. K069 Health Sciences. “Changes in community composition and ecosystem processes associated with biological invasions: Impacts of Zostera japonica in the marine intertial zone.” (Prof. Shahid Naeem).
- Roberta Claire Hamme, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 29. 425 Ocean Sciences. “Applications of neon, nitrogen and argon to physical and chemical cycles in the ocean.” (Prof. Steven Emerson).
- Ursula Clare Hildebrandt, Psychology, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. 315 Guthrie. “An investigation of hearing infants’ preferences for American sign language and nonliguistic biological motion.” (Prof. David Corina).
- Marina Milan Hruska, Physics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Transport in low-dimensional conductors.” (Prof. Boris spivak).
- Carolyn Williford Jackson, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. 112A Miller. “Adult African American military dependents: Educational encounters within and beyond the military gates.” (Prof. Geneva Gay).
- Tracy Lynn Jirikowic, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, May 29. 102T Miller. “Sensory processing and integration in children with alcohol-related diagnoses: An exploratory study.” (Prof. Douglas Cheney).
- Wasana Kirdphon, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. T513 Health Sciences. “Acccepting and adjusting to chronicity of hypertension: A grounded theory study in suburban Thai people.” (Prof. Susanna Cunningham).
- Nai-Ying Ko, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. T612 Health Sciences. “Reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Taiwan.” (Prof. Marjorie Muecke).
- Dagmar Kotlandova Koenig, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 29. 222 Miller. “Schooling and change: Czech teachers in private and state secondary schools.” (Prof. Nancy Beadie).
- Melissa Jo Lambeth, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. T625 Health Sciences. “Computational modeling of skeletal muscle glycogenolysis dynamics.” (Prof. Martin Kushmerick).
- Shi Michelle Liu, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. 243 Wilcox. “Development of novel conjugated polymers for light-emitting diodes.” (Prof. Alex K.-Y. Jen).
- Alicia Louise Manthe, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, May 19. 109 Benson. “Symbolic circuit analysis: DDD optimization and nonlinearity analysis.” (Prof. Richard Shi).
- Shishir Mathur, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, May 22. 234 Kane. “Effect of impact fees on housing prices: Analysis of quality differentiated single family housing market of King and Snohomish County, Washington.” (Prof. Hilda Blanco).
- Joseph B. McGlinchey, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 20. Conference Room, Guthrie Annex III. “Internet usage of college students and relationship to psychopathology and addiction symptomatology.” (Prof. G. Alan Marlatt).
- Timothy Scott McMillen, Nutritional Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 22. BB938 Health Sciences. “Role of myeloperoxidase in inflammatory diseases.” (Prof. Renee LeBoeuf).
- Patrick John Myers, Classics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 29. 210 Denny. “Measured responses: Minor characters in Plato’s Sophist and Stateman.” (Prof. Ruby Blondell).
- Hwasook Bergquist Nam, History, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 19. 306 Smith. “Labor’s place in South Korean development: Shipbuilding workers, capital, and the state, 1960-1979.” (Prof. James Palais).
- Thomas Allen Neumann, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 23. 164 Johnson. “Effects of firn ventilation on geochemistry of polar snow.” (Prof. Edwin Waddington).
- Daniel Craig Norvell, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 20. H670 Health Sciences. “Knee pain and symptomatic osteoarthritis after traumatic unilateral lower extremity amputation: Prevalence and risk factors.” (Prof. Noel Weiss).
- Noppawan Piaseu, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, May 19. T612 Health Sciences. “Food insecurity and health among low income families living in crowded urban areas in Thailand.” (Prof. Pamela Mitchell).\
- Susan Joy Prichard, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, May 29. 107 Winkenwerder. “Spatial and temporal dynamics of fire and vegetation change in Thunder Creek Watershed, North Cascades National park.” (Prof. David Peterson).
- Hayden Matane Reeve, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. EGA 114 (ILF Design Studio). “Effect of natural convection heat transfer on polymer optical fiber drawing.” (Prof. Ann Mescher).
- Tomoko Sekiguchi, Linguistics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. 131 Savery. “Syntactic representation and derivation of resultative constructions.” (Prof. Heles Contreras).
- Daniel Nathan Shriner, Microbiology, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. K069 Health Sciences. “Population genetics of HIV-1 during within-host chronic infection.” (Prof. James Mullins).
- William Michael Stier, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 20. 319 Bagley. “Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics of electron transfer in dye sensitized semiconductor sytem.” (Prof. Oleg Prezhdo).
- Brian Curtis Tjaden, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 16. 322 Sieg. “Computational methods for transcription analysis using oligonucleotide microarrays.” (Prof. Richard Anderson).
- Steven Purcell Woodard, Education, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 29. Dean’s Conference Room, Miller. “Discourses, campus-based social networks, and career maturation: A case study analysis of African American female college students.” (Prof. Edward Taylor).
- Mary Frances Zamberlin, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. B526 Padelford. “Rhizosphere: Gilles Deleuze and Minor American literature and thought.” (Prof. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen).
- Cong Zhang, History, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. 320 Smith. “The culture of travel in Song China (960-1276).” (Prof. Patricia Ebrey).
- Lixin Zheng, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 28. 243 Wilcox. “Design, synthesis and characterization of organic and polymeric two-photon absorbing materials.” (Prof. Alex K. Y. Jen).
