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August 17, 2006

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Volunteer, meet students, and enjoy a free dinner
The Carlson Center is looking for UW faculty and staff to be table captains at the Fourth Annual Community Gathering Dinner on Sept. 24.


Being a table captain is an excellent opportunity to explore community connections, share resources with students, and connect with the University District community. You’ll enjoy a free dinner, meet incoming UW students, and talk with University District community members. Join fellow UW faculty, staff, and alumni, and the U District community in welcoming students to the University District.


Pairs of table captains help students get to know one another, facilitate conversations, and discuss how students can get involved in their new community.


To sign up, visit the Dawg Daze web page at: http://depts.washington.edu/dawgdaze/participate/comm_gathering.php. Questions can be directed to Rachel Vaughn at the Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center (rvaughn@u.washington.edu or 206-616-4359).


People of color needed for free bone-marrow registry
The Puget Sound Blood Center is sponsoring a joint blood drive and bone-marrow registry on Friday, Aug. 18, at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The event will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 to 3 p.m. in the Sze East/West Conference Rooms, Thomas Clinical Research Building, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle.


Of the thousands of people with life-threatening illnesses awaiting marrow or stem-cell transplants, about 70 percent do not have a genetically matched family member who can donate for them. Because tissue types are inherited, patients are most likely to find a match within their own ethnic or racial group. Only a small percentage of registrants are people of color.


If you are a person of color (African-American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, multi-racial or Native American), there is no charge to register. Caucasian donors are asked to contribute a $52 tax-deductible donation to cover their tissue-type testing. Donors do not need to pay on the day of the drive. A bone-marrow donor program employee will contact the donor with payment options.


To join the registry, it is necessary to first complete paperwork detailing contact information and health history. The 10-minute screening involves a cheek swab. You do not need to donate blood or have an appointment to join the bone-marrow registry.


To receive a marrow-registry application (to be filled out in advance and brought to the drive), please contact Kristen Woodward, blood-drive coordinator at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 206-667-5095 or kwoodwar@fhcrc.org. To schedule a specific time for donating blood during this drive, please visit www.psbc.org/programs/drive.asp?URL=1455


Alcohol/drug abuse grants available
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., Oct. 16. Questions concerning the application process or suitability of a potential project should be directed to the Institute at 206-543-0937. Application guidelines are available on the ADAI Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.


Proposals sought for seed grant program
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants for the 2006-7 fiscal year. The Seed Grants Program provides funding for promising research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences. The goal is to stimulate scholarly initiative by encouraging faculty to explore new directions in research and scholarship that contributes at the cutting edge to the development of statistical methods for social scientific problems. Although we encourage collaborative research across disciplines—particularly between statisticians and social scientists—such collaboration is not a formal requirement of the program. We are particularly interested in projects that show a high probability of leading to extramural funding. Thus, the funds will typically be used to pursue pilot studies, feasibility studies, or preliminary research that initiates a larger line of research. A subsequent extramural grant that derives from seed grant funding would be administered through CSSS. Awards will be in the range of $10,000-20,000, and typically include one-month summary salary for a principal investigator and one quarter salary for a research assistant. In the past, proposals have had a high rate of funding.


Eligibility: Faculty holding the following ranks at the time of the award are eligible to apply: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, research professor, research associate professor, and research assistant professor. Faculty with acting appointments at the time of the award may be eligible and should contact the associate director in advance of submitting a proposal. Faculty who have received a CSSS award as PIs are ineligible to receive another until three years following the termination of the first. A PI may submit only one proposal per round. Co-PIs may submit more than one proposal, but no more than one of the proposals will be funded. A proposal that is not funded may be resubmitted in a later round only if it is substantially revised or if the review committee recommends resubmission.


Research Project Requirements: Research projects must use statistical methods to address a social scientific problem. Strong proposals will use innovative statistical methods to address cutting-edge social scientific research questions. Collaborative interdisciplinary research such as between a social scientist and a statistician is encouraged but not required. All personnel funded by the grant are expected to participate regularly in the CSSS Seminar Series, both by attending and by giving at least one seminar on the project topic. The proposal should indicate which member(s) of the research team will be the primary seminar participants.


External Support: Proposals that show promise for future extramural funding will be given preference. Indeed, PIs who plan to submit an extramural grant proposal based on their Seed Grant proposed project can increase their chances of receiving a Seed Grant Award by guaranteeing that they will submit an extramural proposal through CSSS immediately after the funding period. In such cases, the review committee may grant awards conditional on the PI submitting an external grant within a year of the funding period. In general, support will not be given merely to extend or supplement existing funded research projects. Instead, proposals should seek to initiate new research ideas. An extramural proposal that derives from a project funded by the Seed Grants Program is expected to be administered through CSSS.


Application Form: An application form and detailed instructions for preparing the proposal can be found on the CSSS web site: http://www.csss.washington.edu/SeedGrants/


Deadline: The deadline for CSSS Seed Grant proposals is Oct. 25. Awards will be announced by Dec. 15. Submit proposals to CSSS, Box 354320, Attn: Nick Ganoulis.


Questions: Questions on preparing a proposal should be addressed to: Katherine Stovel, Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of CSSS, Department of Sociology, Box 353340, 206-616-3820, stovel@u.washington.edu.



Legal Notice


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 and Chapter 42.30 RCW.


Reasons Why Rules on This Subject May Be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To clarify the meeting practices of the University of Washington’s Board of Regents and other UW governing boards with respect to the Open Public Meetings Act.


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 of Rules Coordination, UW, Box 355509, Seattle, WA 98195-5509, rules@u.washington.edu, Fax, 206-221-6917.


Degree Exams


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


General Examinations



  • Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, Geography, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Smith Hall, 409. (Prof. Jonathan Mayer).
  • Bart E. Burington, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25. Health Sciences Ctr., F-643. (Prof. Scott Emerson).
  • Calla E. Chancellor, Women Studies, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. Padelford B-100-G. (Prof. Judy Howard).
  • Amber Aziza Dahlin, Pharmacy – Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. Health Sciences Ctr., H-272-G. (Prof. Joanne Wang).
  • Andrea E. Duncan, Anthropology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28. Denny Hall, 401. (Pros. Randall Kyes and Steven Goodreau).
  • Kenneth Howard Gimbel-Sherr, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6. Health Sciences Ctr., F-348. (Prof. Noel Weiss).
  • Christian Hendershot, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Guthrie Annex III, Conference Room. (Prof. William George).
  • Mary Courtney Hughes, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5. Health Sciences Ctr., H-670. (Prof. Donald Patrick).
  • Christine M. Isborn, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22. Chemistry Bldg., 439. (Prof. Xiao Song).
  • Anita Y. Lam, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18. Health Sciences Ctr., J-412. (Prof. Wilhelms Hol).
  • Jane M. Lock, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. Johnson Hall, 027. (Prof. Sean Willett).
  • Ketty Anabel Loeb, Political Science, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18. Smith Hall, 40-A. (Prof. Susan Whiting).
  • Armin W. Stuedlein, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. More Hall, 218. (Prof. Robert Holtz).
  • Zenghui Wang, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 25. Physics/Astronomy Bldg., C-520. (Prof. David Cobden).
  • Saensuk Wetchagarun, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 7. Mechanical Engineering Bldg., 259. (Prof. James Riley).
  • Nicole L. Wilson, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25. Guthrie Hall, 211. (Prof. Yuichi Shoda).

Final Examinations



  • Ruth Elizabeth Anderson, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21. Paul Allen Ctr for CSE, 303. “Digital ink and interaction in the classroom” (Prof. Richard Anderson).
  • Alejandro Jose Gonzalez, Nutritional Sciences, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18. FHCRC Arnold Bldg., M4-A805/A817. “Zinc and boron: Measurement and prostate cancer risk” (Prof. Emily White).
  • Joseph J. Hannah, Geography, Ph.D. noon Monday, Sept. 25. Smith Hall, 409. “Local non-government organizations in Vietnam: Development, civil society and state-society relations” (Prof. Lucy Jarosz).
  • Julie A. Harris, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23. Ctr on Human Development & Disability, CD-150. “The molecular basis of a critical period for afferent input-dependent neuron survival in mouse cochlear nucleus” (Prof. Edwin Rubel).
  • Michael Brady Olson, Oceanography, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Marine Sciences Bldg., 123. “On the population ecology of the toxigenic diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia: Perspectives from the growth and mortality environments” (Prof. Evelyn Lessard).
  • Drew B. Stolar, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18. Johnson Hall, 111. “Coupling between tectonics and erosion in accretionary wedge settings” (Prof. Sean Willett).