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July 24, 2003

Notices

Reference Update


The following UW policy information was revised during the previous Spring Quarter:





  • Administrative Policy Statement 47.2, “Personal Use of University Facilities, Computers, and Equipment by University Employees,” revised effective April 14, 2003.


  • Executive Order No. 61, “Policy for Addressing Allegations of Scientific and Scholarly Misconduct,” revised effective May 14, 2003.


  • University Handbook, Volume 2, Part II, Chapter 24, Section 24–34, “Qualifications for Appointment at Specific Ranks and Titles,” revised effective June 5, 2003.


  • Administrative Policy Statement 15.1, “Accountability for Tax-Free Ethyl Alcohol,” revised effective June 16, 2003.


  • University Handbook, Volume 4, Part III, Chapter 11, Section 3, “Honors Awards,” revised effective June 20, 2003.



To view the Executive Order and University Handbook sections noted above, go to the University Handbook Web site: http://www.washington.edu/faculty/facsenate/handbook/handbook.html; and to view Administrative Policy Statements noted above, go to the Administrative Policy Statements Web site http://www.washington.edu/admin/adminpro/APS/APSIndex.html.



OTHER NEWS


Chronic Fatigue Study Subjects Wanted
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 years of age 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 information, call Stephanie at 206-521-1233 or e-mail, sbhatz@u.washington.edu.





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 his/her 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 Center volunteers needed
Puget Sound Blood center, the largest volunteer organization in Washington State, seeks volunteers to help at mobile blood drives and at donation centers throughout the region.


Volunteers play a vital role in saving lives and opportunities including registering people before they donate blood, serving refreshments while monitoring donors after they donate blood, calling to remind donors of their appointments and driving Blood Center vehicles to deliver blood and supplies.


Delivery volunteers are required to have a valid Washington state license. Hours are flexible. Please call 1-800-266-4033.





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 http://www.psbc.org 



DEGREE EXAMS


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


General Examinations





  • Lynn Matthews Bekris, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environmental Health, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 30. T473 Health Sciences. (Prof. Terrance Kavanagh).


  • Nicholas D. Buker, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 25. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. Larry Dalton).


  • Sunil Kumar Chebolu, Mathematics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5. 216 Loew. (Prof. John Palmieri).


  • Xuanhong Cheng, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 31. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Buddy Ratner).


  • Michael J. Eggertson, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Norman Dovichi).


  • Jennylee Gonyer-Donohue, English, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Paul Remley).


  • Andrew Joseph Marshall, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. 303 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Buddy Ratner).


  • Mindy L. Roberts, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7. 218 More. (Prof. Derek Booth).


  • Ruth S. Van De Water, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Stephen Sharpe).


  • Anu Wadhwa, Business Administration, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Suresh Kotha).


  • Jeffrey J. Weinschenk, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. 403 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Robert Marks).



Final Examinations





  • Amy Dawn Anderson, Statistics, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 25. 404 Smith. “The genetic structure of related recombinant lines.” (Prof. Elizabeth Thompson).


  • Ronald Gordon Aoyama, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, July 28. K069 Health Sciences. “Probing the active site of cytochrome P450 2C9.” (Prof. William Trager).


  • Claudia J. Berguson, Scandinavian Studies, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 25. 202 Communications. “Challenging authority: Saga, gossip, ballad and legend as narrative voices in Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter.” (Prof. Jan Sjavik).


  • Jeffrey Dale Brown, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1. 303 Electrical Engineering. “Quantitative analysis of laparoscopic surgery: Measuring grasping forces applied by surgeons and the in-vivo biomechanical properties of abdominal organs.” (Prof. Blake Hannaford).


  • Bryan Neil Cochran, Psychology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, July 28. 222 Johnson. “Sexual minorities in substance abuse treatment: The impact of provider biases and treatment outcomes.” (Prof. Ana Mari Cauce).


  • Patrick James Crowley, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, July 25. 322 Sieg. “Design and analysis of architectures for programmable network processing systems.” (Prof. Jean-Loup Baer).


  • Vincent Paul Doria-Rose, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 29. 927 BC Metropolitan Park II, FHCRC. “Incidence of colorectal cancer following screening sigmoidoscopy: Implications for screening interval.” (Prof. Noel Weiss).


  • Thomas Eugene Edwards, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7. 102 Chemistry. “Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of spin-labeled RNA: An emerging tool for the elucidation of RNA structure and dynamics.” (Prof. Snorri Sigurdsson).


  • Gary Richard Ettari, English, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 25. A101C Padelford. “”That within which passeth show”: The dialectics of early modern subjectivity.” (Prof. John Webster).


  • Cara Lea Frankenfeld, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, July 31. 924 Metropolitan Park East, FHCRC. “Hormone status postmenopause: Colonic bacterial effects.” (Prof. Johanna Lampe).


  • Daniel Lee Gillen, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, July 31. F348 Health Sciences. “The use of weighted logrank statistics in group sequential testing and non-proportional hazards.” (Prof. Scott Emerson).


  • Jeffrey Scott Grinstead, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31. K069 Health Sciences. “Structural immunology of humoral and cellular immune recognition of a MUC1 breast cancer antigen.” (Prof. Ann Patricia Campbell).


  • Vasily Yurievich Litvinov, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5. 322 Sieg. “Constraint-bounded polymorphism: An expressive and practical type system for object-oriented languages.” (Prof. Craig Chambers).


  • Thomas Cat Luu, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 30. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Effective interactions within an oscillator basis.” (Prof. Wick Haxton).


  • Noah Malmstadt, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 25. 003 EE1. “Temperature-dependent smart bead adhesion: A versatile platform for biomolecular immobilization in microfluidic devices.” (Profs. Patrick Stayton and Allan Hoffman).


  • Jonathan Whitney Miller-Lane, Education, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. 212 Miller. “Facilitating disagreement in classroom discussion.” (Prof. Walter Parker).


  • Martha Cornelia Nason, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. F348 Health Sciences. “Variable importance in tree-based models.” (Pros. Scott Emerson and Michael LeBlanc).


  • Kjell Erik Nelson, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 4. T478 Health Sciences. “Investigating cell adhesion to controlled surface chemistry via self-assembly of binary composition alkylthiol monolayers, cell receptor ligand attachment, and non-uniform protein patterning.” (Prof. Patrick Stayton).
  • Rachit Ohri, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5. 102 Chemistry. “Harnessing osteopontin and other natural inhibitors to inhibit ectopic calcification of bioprostetic heart valve material.” (Prof. Cecilia Giachelli).


  • Zinon Papakonstantinou, History, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 31. 306 Smith. “”Dancing Zeus”: Leisure and society in archaic and classical Greece.” (Prof. Carol Thomas).


  • Jinho Park, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 31. 403 Electrical Engineering. “Ultra-wideband amplifier using parasitic-aware synthesis and optimization.” (Prof. David Allstot).


  • Samuel David Pittman, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7. 22 Anderson. “Multilevel planning in forestry.” (Prof. B. Bruce Bare).


  • Gregor William Schuurman, Zoology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. 110 Physics/Astronomy. “Communities and ecosystem processes: A study of termites and decomposition in semiarid southern African ecosystems.” (Prof. Shahid Naeem).


  • Kristie Ann Spencer, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5. 001 Eagleson. “Investigations of speech motor programming in ataxic and hypokinetic dysarthria.” (Prof. Margaret Rogers).


  • James Corydon Vary, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, July 28. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Characterization of the lsw1a and lsw1b ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes from the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” (Prof. Toshio Tsukiyana).


  • Mark Philip Weitzenkamp, Drama, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 25. 150 Hutchinson. “The influence of Barrett H. Clark on American theatre.” (Prof. Barry Witham).


  • Stacy Shaw Welch, Psychology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, July 31. Guthrie Annex 4. “Patterns of emotion in response to parasuicide imagery in borderline personality disorder.” (Prof. Marsha Linehan).


  • Elizabeth Anne West, Education, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 29. 102 Miller. “Transferring stimulus control from instructor assistance to verbal versus pictorial natural cues for children with autism.” (Prof. Felix Billingsley).