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March 2, 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 Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.

Other news

Board of Regents meeting

The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in the Petersen Room on the 4th floor of the Allen Library, 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.

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


  • Friday, March 3, from 1 to 3:15 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. in the Terry Hall lounge.
  • 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.
  • Monday, March 6, from 10 a.m. to noon and 12:45 to 4 p.m. by the statue of George Washington.
  • Tuesday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. on Stevens Way across from Lewis Hall.
  • Wednesday, March 8, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the parking lot at 9725 3rd Ave NE.
  • Friday, March 10 from 1 to 3:15 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. in the Terry Hall lounge.
  • Friday, March 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.
  • Tuesday, March 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. on Stevens Way across from Lewis Hall.
  • Thursday, March 30, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 5 p.m. on the north side of Schmitz Hall.
  • Friday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. in the bus parked in the loading zone near More Hall.
  • Monday, April 3, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the HUB, Room 108.

Public Hearing Notice

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Monday, March 13 in Room 309 of the Husky Union Building (HUB), at the UW. The purpose of the hearing is to allow all interested persons an opportunity to present their views, either orally or in writing, on the proposed amendments to WAC 478–160–163, “Waivers of Tuition and Fees.”

The University seeks to amend the eligibility and limitations for specific UW tuition waivers in order to reflect new definitions established by RCW 28B.15.621 that became effective last July. The same legislation repealed existing waivers for SE Asia veterans, Persian Gulf veterans, and children of POW/MIAs that had been authorized by RCW 28B.10.265, 28B.15.620, and 28B.15.628, and instead authorized a new permissive waiver for veterans who are Washington domiciles and who were called to active federal duty and who served in a conflict or war on foreign soil/international waters, or in support of such a conflict, and for his/her children or spouse if the veteran became totally disabled or lost his/her life while engaged in active federal military or naval service, or if the veteran was determined to be a POW/MIA. This same legislation also removed eligibility for members of the Washington National Guard and veterans of the Korean conflict to use the state employee tuition exemption, although those with qualifying service can apply for the amended veteran’s waiver. The University amended WAC 478–160–163 on an emergency basis effective Oct. 7, 2005, and now seeks to make the amendments permanent.

Advance copies of the proposed WAC rules may be obtained by contacting Rebecca Goodwin Deardorff, Director of Rules Coordination, Box 355509, Seattle, WA 98195 or by phone at 206-543-9219. Copies will also be available at the public hearing.

Persons wishing to provide written comment may submit their remarks to Ms. Deardorff at the above address, by e-mail to rules@u.washington.edu, or by fax to 206-221-6917, by March 13.

To request disability accommodation for this hearing, contact the UW Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance of the event at: 206-543-6450/voice, 206-543-6452/TTY, 206-685-7264/fax, or by e-mail at dso@u.washington.edu.

Degree Exams

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

General Examinations


  • Christine Melissa Avery, History, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, March 3. Smith Hall, 320. (Prof. Linda Nash).
  • Otilia G. Baraboi, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. Padelford Hall, B-202. (Prof. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen).
  • Teresa J. Bixby, Chemistry, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday, March 9. Chemistry Bldg., 239. (Prof. Philip Reid).
  • Andrew M. Bjorn, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, March 17. Gould Hall, 442. (Prof. Paul Waddell).
  • Saad Mohammed Bugaighis, Near and Middle Eastern Studies Group, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, March 13. Communications Bldg., 032. (Prof. Ellis Goldberg).
  • Lana M. Conrad, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 14. Health Sciences Ctr.., T-404. (Prof. Kathryn Barnard).
  • Christopher W. Curtis, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, March 9. Guggenheim Hall, 408-D. (Prof. Robert O’Malley, Jr.).
  • Richard Dietmar Dorfer, Music, D.M.A. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14. Music Bldg., 210. (Prof. Ronald Patterson).
  • Andrew D. Frohmader, Mathematics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 8. Mechanical Engineering Bldg., 245. (Prof. Isabella Novik).
  • Michael G. Garelick, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, March 9. Health Sciences Ctr., T-625. (Prof. Daniel Storm).
  • Tomoko Ohashi Gray, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. Benson Hall, 109. (Prof. Rene Overney).
  • Adam Maxwell Greenberg, Psychology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. Guthrie Hall, 211. (Prof. Anthony Greenwald).
  • Daniel J. Griesbach, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 13. Padelford Hall, A-101-C. (Prof. Robert Shulman).
  • Talal S. Hattar, Political Science, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 9. Smith Hall, 40-A. (Prof. Ellis Goldberg).
  • Joe Nhut Ho, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, March 17. Engineering Annex Bldg., Design Studio. (Prof. Wei-Chih Wang).
  • Yun-Wei A. Hsu, Biology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 4. Kincaid Hall, A-042-C. (Prof. Horacio de la Eglesia).
    Rachel E. Johns, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 09:00 a.m. Monday, March 6. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303.   (Profs. Patrick Stayton & Allan Hoffman).
  • Floyd Brian Karp, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 02:30 p.m. Friday, March 10. Bagley Hall, 466.   (Prof. Buddy Ratner).
  • Svetlana V. Kilina, Chemistry, Ph.D. 03:00 p.m. Thursday, March 9. Bagley Hall, 319.   (Prof. Oleg Prezhdo).
  • Min Jung Kim, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 04:40 p.m. Monday, March 6. Eagleson Hall, 111.   (Prof. Carol Stoel-Gammon).
  • Brian Ho-Yin Lee, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. 09:30 a.m. Monday, March 6. UrbanSim Lab, 4534 1/2 University Way NE.   (Prof. Paul Waddell).
  • Chi-Ying M. Lee, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16. Benson Hall, 109.   (Prof. David Castner).
  • Lei Li, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. 04:00 p.m. Friday, March 10. Electrical Engineering Bldg., M-406.   (Prof. Zelda Zabinsky).
  • Chad J. Moody, History, Ph.D. 03:00 p.m. Friday, March 10. Smith Hall, 320.   (Prof. Nikhil Singh).
  • Abhinav Nath, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 7. Health Sciences Ctr., T-498.   (Prof. William Atkins).
  • David A. Nolin, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 14. Denny Hall, 401.   (Prof. Eric Smith).
  • Aaron Samuel Nudelman, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 03:00 p.m. Friday, March 24. Health Sciences Ctr., J-675.   (Prof. Daniel Storm).
  • Noah S. Oblath, Physics, Ph.D. 03:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14. North Physics Laboratory, CENPA Conference Room.   (Prof. Hamish Robertson).
  • Irena Percinkova Patton, English, Ph.D. 01:30 p.m. Monday, March 13. Padelford Hall, A-101-C.   (Profs. Joycelyn Moody & Brian Reed).
  • Mikelle Rasmussen, Oceanography, Ph.D. 01:30 p.m. Friday, March 3. Marine Sciences Bldg., 123.   (Profs. Bruce Frost & E. Virginia Armbrust).
  • Balazs Rozsa, Music, D.M.A. 01:00 p.m. Monday, March 13. Music Bldg., 206.   (Prof. Craig Sheppard).
    Atri Rudra, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Monday, March 6. Paul Allen Center, 503.   (Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami).
  • Jeanne Marguerite Sears, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 21. Health Sciences Ctr., H-670.   (Prof. Thomas Wickizer).
  • Adrian C. Sinkler, Political Science, Ph.D. 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 14. Smith Hall, 40-A.   (Prof. Stephen Hanson).
  • Suzanne Marie Soroczak, Information School, Ph.D. 02:30 p.m. Friday, March 10. Mary Gates Hall, 224.   (Prof. David McDonald).
  • David Higley Spencer, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 10:00 a.m. Friday, March 17. Health Sciences Ctr., J-182.   (Prof. Maynard Olson).
  • Renee Doney Stapleton, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 08:30 a.m. Monday, March 6. Health Sciences Ctr., F-348.   (Prof. Noel Weiss).
  • Jeffrey Lee Stevenson, Linguistics, Ph.D. 03:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16. Savery Hall, 131.   (Prof. Alicia Beckford-Wassink).
  • Bruce C. Wang, Economics, Ph.D. 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 10. Savery Hall, 302.   (Prof. Yu-Chin Chen).
  • Jue Wang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 10. Paul Allen Center, 303.   (Prof. Eve Riskin).
  • Catherine M. Williams, Mathematics, Ph.D. 03:00 p.m. Monday, March 13. Padelford Hall, C-401.   (Prof. Daniel Pollack).
  • Dru A. Williams, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 15. Communications Bldg., 102-E.   (Prof. Barbara Warnick).
  • Lori A. Williams, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 03:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 29. FHCRC M-4 B-102.   (Prof. Anneclaire De Roos).
  • Stephen J. Young, Geography, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 15. Smith Hall, 409.   (Prof. Matthew Sparke).
  • Anahita E. Zarei, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 14. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303.   (Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawi

Final Examinations




  • Akesha L. Baron, Anthropology, Ph.D. 03:30 p.m. Friday, March 3. Denny Hall, 401.  “Women Don’t Talk: Gender and Codemixing in an Evangelical Tzotzil Village” (Profs. Anne Curzan & Eugene Hunn).



  • Amy Christine Beegle, Music, Ph.D. 01:30 p.m. Monday, March 13. Music Bldg., 101.  “Children at Work in Their Musical Expression: A Classroom-Based Study of Small Group Planned Improvisation” (Prof. Patricia Campbell).



  • Nishant Prakash Bhatambrekar, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 10. Chemistry Bldg., 239.  “Realizing a Fractional Volt Half-Wave Voltage of Mach-Zehnder Modulators Using a DC Biased Push-Pull Method and Synthesis and Characterization af Indole Based NLO Chromophores for Improving Electro-Optic Activity” (Prof. Larry Dalton).



  • Sanchali Bhattacharjee, Chemistry, Ph.D. 11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 9. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Novel Concepts in the Design and Synthesis of Organic Nonlinear Optical and Electro-optic Materials” (Prof. Larry Dalton).



  • Parveen Bhatti, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 09:00 a.m. Monday, March 20. Health Sciences Ctr., T-531.  “DNA Double Strand Break Repair Polymorphisms, Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Breast Cancer Risk” (Prof. Michael Yost).



  • James Lee Borgford-Parnell, Education, Ph.D. 01:00 p.m. Friday, March 3. Miller Hall, 211.  “Conceptions of Teaching in a Research-Intensive University: What Effective Teachers Think” (Prof. Edward Taylor).



  • Ronald Se-Yuen Cheung, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 14. Health Sciences Bldg., K-069.  “Contrasting Tumorigenic Growth Interactions of Apoptosis-deficient MYC Alleles with Transforming Growth Factor-Alpha” (Prof. Nelson Fausto).



  • Kavita Garg, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 13. Health Sciences Ctr., J-280.  “Genome Wide Comparison of Alternative and Constitutive Spice Sites Conserved Between Mouse and Human” (Prof. Philip Green).



  • Annette E. Ghee, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 10. Health Sciences Ctr., RR-134.  “Individual and Workplace-Level Correlates of STI/HIV Infection Among Central American Female Sex Workers: A Multilevel Approach” (Prof. Michelle Williams).



  • Andrew Stuart Glass, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 03:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 29. Gowen Hall, M-230.  “Connected Discourses in Gandhara: A Study, Edition, and Translation of Four Samyuktagama-Type Sutras from the Senior Collection” (Prof. Richard Salomon).



  • Susan O. Grose, Biology, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Thursday, March 9. Hitchcock Hall, 312.  “Phylogenetics and Fruit Development in a Neotropical Lineage of Bignoniaceae” (Prof. Richard Olmstead).



  • Steven Wesley Grubb, Education, Ed.D 02:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. Miller Hall, 201.  “Making Sense of Reform: How School Administrators Make Use of Instructional Letters to Improve Instruction in a Northwestern District” (Prof. Michael Knapp).



  • Chia-Hsien Hsu, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 03:30 p.m. Monday, March 6. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303.  “Elastomeric Microfluidic Devices for Biological Studies” (Prof. Albert Folch).



  • Nuttorn Jangkrajarng, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 01:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 15. Paul Allen Center, AE-108.  “Analog/RF VLSI Layout Generation – Layout Retargeting via Symbolic Template” (Prof. C. J. Richard Shi).



  • Thomas M. Keenan, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 11:00 a.m. Monday, March 6. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 403.  “Microfluidic Methods for Exposing Cultured Cells to Defined Signaling Molecule Gradients” (Prof. Albert Folch).



  • Kevin M. Krudys, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 02:30 p.m. Friday, March 3. Health Sciences Ctr., K-069.  “Model-Based Biomarkers of Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Secretion in Population Studies” (Prof. Paolo Vicini).



  • Naveen Kumar, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. 09:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 14. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 403.  “Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Improve Factory Operations in Semiconductor Manufacturing” (Prof. Christina Mastrangelo).



  • Llewellyn Rhys Lawson, Chemistry, Ph.D. 09:00 a.m. Thursday, March 9. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Hybrid Silicon-Organic Ring Resonator Photonic Devices” (Prof. Larry Dalton).



  • Joshua Michael London, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 01:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 15. Fishery Science Bldg., 102.  “Harbor Seals in Hood Canal: Predator and Prey” (Prof. Glenn VanBlaricom).



  • Jie Luo, Biology, Ph.D. 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 8. Marine Sciences Bldg., 123.  “The Evolution and Composition of RNA Polymerase IV in Plants” (Prof. Benjamin Hall).



  • Serena Dawn Maurer, Women Studies, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Friday, March 10. Padelford Hall, B-110-G.  “Feminist Border Praxis:  Exploring Racialized Citizenship, Gendered Reproduction and Borderland Governmentality in the Yakima Valley” (Prof. Priti Ramamurthy).



  • Mary Agnes Mccarthy, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. Health Sciences Bldg., T-305.  “Perioperative Immunonutrition in Head and Neck Cancer:  A Feasibility Study” (Prof. JoAnne Whitney).



  • Carla M. McDowell, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 10. Chemistry Bldg., 339.  “RNA Photolyase Activity of Vibrio Cholerae Cryptochrome 1” (Prof. Paul Hopkins).



  • Brian Jason Mello, Political Science, Ph.D. 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 6. Smith Hall, 40-A.  “Evaluating Social Movement Impacts: Labor and the Politics of State-Society Relations.” (Prof. Stephen Hanson).



  • Igor V. Novosselov, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Friday, March 10. Mechanical Engineering Bldg., 219-A.  “Chemical Reactor Networks for Combustion Systems Modeling” (Prof. Philip Malte).



  • Woong-Cheol Park, Music, D.M.A. 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 3. Music Bldg., 103.  “The Performance of Faure’s La Bonne Chanson, Opus 61, In Practice” (Prof. Vinson Cole).



  • Daniel A. Ramrus, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 01:30 p.m. Friday, March 17. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303.  “The Creation and Adhesion Testing of Patterned Silane Surfaces” (Prof. John Berg).



  • Robert Scott Silverstein, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 7. Center on Human Development and Disability, CD-150.  “Regulation of the Atp2b2 Gene” (Prof. Bruce Tempel).



  • Brian Phillip Smart, Chemistry, Ph.D. 01:30 p.m. Monday, March 6. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Structure-Based Design of Secretory and Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 Inhibitors” (Prof. Michael Gelb).



  • Mary Sue St Germain, Near and Middle Eastern Studies Group, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 16. Communications Bldg., G-046.  “Al-Azdi’s Hikayat Abi al-Qasim al-Baghdadi: Placing an Anomalous Text within the Literary Developments of its Time.” (Prof. Terri DeYoung).



  • Jennifer L. Wacker, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 02:00 p.m. Thursday, March 16. Health Sciences Ctr., T-439.  “The Role of the Molecular Chaperones Hsp40 and Hsp70 in Modulating Mutant Huntingtin Aggregation and Toxicity” (Prof. Paul Muchowski).



  • Lijun Xu, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 13. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Theoretical Studies of Pd on MgO(100) Surface with Density Functional and Transition State Theories” (Prof. Charles Campbell).



  • Daisuke Yamada, Physics, Ph.D. 01:30 p.m. Monday, March 13. Physics/Astronomy Bldg., C-520.  “Phase Structure of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory with R-Symmetry Chemical Potentials” (Prof. Laurence Yaffe).



  • Joyce P. Yi, Psychology, Ph.D. 09:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 7. Guthrie Annex 3, 120.  “Exploring Trait Resilience in Association with Mental and Physical Health” (Prof. Peter Vitaliano).



  • Li Zhu, Chemistry, Ph.D. 08:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 8. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Molecular Mechanism of Retinitis Pigmentosa” (Prof. Krzysztof Palczewski).