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July 19, 2007

Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in the Petersen Room, Allen Library.

Blood Drives

Thursday, July 26, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Schmitz Hall (north side)

Friday, July 27, 10 a.m.- 6:30 p.m., Health Sciences Lobby (3rd Floor, C-Wing)

Pre-teen and teen girls needed for a clinical research study

We want to learn more about how physical fitness and chronic disease are related. You may be able to take part if you:


  • Do not have chronic diseases
  • Do not smoke or use alcohol
  • Do not take birth control pills
  • Have not recently lost weight through exercise/dieting

If you take part in the study, you will be asked to come to Children’s on two mornings to:


  • Have a physical exam by a nurse practitioner
  • Give blood and urine samples
  • Be measured for height, weight and waist size
  • Answer written questions
  • Do some exercise tests

You may be asked to take part in a physical fitness program and come for two follow-up visits. You will receive a $25 gift certificate at the end of study. To learn more, please call Alina at 206-685-2338, Dept. of Epidemiology/Nutritional Sciences Program.

Early Childhood Education Assistance Program at the EEU

The Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP) at the UW’s Experimental Education Unit is a free pre-school program for 4-year-old children from low-income families, designed to help them succeed in school. The program is funded by the State of Washington and the City of Seattle, and is open to families living in Seattle whose incomes meet eligibility requirements. For more information, call Barbara Matlock, ECEAP Coordinator, at 206-221-5939, or e-mail bmatlock@u.washington.edu.

Degree Exams

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

General Examinations


  • Emily Elizabeth Devine, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1. Health Science Bldg., H-670. (Prof. Sean Sullivan).
  • Mary E. Hunsicker, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 31. Fisheries 314. (Prof. Timothy Essington).
  • Eung-Hun Kim, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 31. Foege N 503. (Prof. Yong-Min Kim).
  • Keith N. Leavitt, Business School, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 27. Mackenzie, McCabe Room. (Prof. Gregory Bigley).
  • Yuhshi Lee, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, July 23. Miller Hall, 112-A. (Prof. James Banks).
  • Ching-Ping Lin, Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 30. Health Sciences T-478. (Prof. John Gennari).
  • Keiko Munechika, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 20. Chemistry Bldg., 239. (Prof. David Ginger).
  • Ma Michelle Penaranda, Pathobiology Group, Postmaster 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1. Western Fisheries Research Center Main Conference Room. (Prof. Gael Kurath and Nancy Haigwood).
  • Paolo Spicar-Mihalic, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 30. Chemistry 439. (Prof. Paul Yager).
  • Allen D. Taylor, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 27. Benson 109. (Prof. Shaoyi Jiang).
  • Junya Uchida, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, July 23. Atmospheric Science/Geophysics 406. (Prof. Christopher Bretherton).

Final Examinations


  • Elif Akcetin, History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 26. Smith 203E. “Corruption at the frontier: the gansu fraud scandal” (Prof. R. Kent Guy).
  • Michelle Marie Averill, Nutritional Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 26. Health Sciences T739. “Pomegranate juice and atherosclerosis” (Prof. Michael Rosenfeld).
  • Umut Aydin, Political Science, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Smith 40. “From competition to cooperation: subsidies in the United States, Canada and the European Union” (Prof. James Caporaso).
  • Larissa E. Back, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25. Atmospheric Sciences/Geophysics 310. “Towards an improved understanding of deep convection patterns over the tropical oceans” (Prof. Christopher Bretherton).
  • Kristin M. Bakke, Political Science, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1. Smith 40. “On divisions, diversity and disparity: federal states and the societies they govern” (Prof. Joel Migdal).
  • Peter Martin Caldwell, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 24. Johnson 075. “Subtropical stratocumulus and its effect on climate” (Prof. Christopher Bretherton).
  • Ronald Charles Jr Caldwell, Economics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 24. Savery 302C. “Essays on the effect of expectations about future opportunities on the human capital development of minority children” (Prof. Shelly Lundberg).
  • Xun Cao, Political Science, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Smith 40 A. “Convergence, divergence and networks in international political economy” (Prof. Michael Ward).
  • Hsien-Tzu Chen, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 27. Health Sciences T-404. “Relational and transactional processes of couples’ experience with breast cancer” (Prof. Frances Marcus Lewis).
  • Jessica Chubak, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 26. FHCRC, D1-080/084. “Breast cancer recurrence risk in relation to antidepressant use after diagnosis” (Prof. Noel Weiss).
  • Matias Courdurier, Mathematics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 31. Loew 111. “Restricted measurements for the X-ray transform” (Prof. Gunther Uhlmann).
  • Jane Kathelene Cover, Sociology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 30. Savery 110C. “Resisting the tide: stability and change in racially integrated neighborhoods, 1980 – 2000” (Prof. Avery Guest).
  • Heida Lin Diefenderfer, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, July 23. Anderson 22. “Channel morphology and restoration of sitka spruce (Picca sitchensis) tidal forested wetland, Columbia River, U.S.A.” (Prof. Kristiina Vogt).
  • Anton Michael Dochtermann, Mathematics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 27. Sieg 226. “The topology of graph homomorphisms” (Prof. Isabella Novik).
  • Meira Epplein, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, July 27. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center M4-A805/A817. “The etiologies of endometrial hyperplasia” (Prof. Noel Weiss).
  • Emily Rose Ernst, Political Science, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Gowen 1A. “Let’s stay together: race, class, gender and the challenge of welfare rights” (Prof. George Lovell).
  • Kenyatta Niobe Reid Etchison, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 31. Guthrie Annex 3, 120. “Experiences of homelessness among African American youth: Examining risk and resilience” (Prof. Ana Mari Cauce).
  • Laura Lee Feider, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Health Sciences T612. “Survey of oral care practices for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient” (Prof. Pamela Mitchell).
  • Lisa M. Glidden, Political Science, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1. Smith 40. “To be or not to be an Indian: ethnic mobilization in Ecuador and Peru” (Prof. Erik Wibbels).
  • David Bryce Grimes, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, July 31. Computer Science and Engineering Allen Center 303. “Learning by imitation and exploration: Bayesian models and applications in humanoid robots” (Prof. Rajesh Rao).
  • Li Hua, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 27. Harris 322. “Phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate (PIP2) modulation of TRPV1 and functional interactions between A’ helices in the C-linkers of open CNG channels” (Prof. Sharona Gordon).
  • Ying Huang, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 24. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center M4-A23. “Evaluating the predictiveness of continuous biomarkers” (Prof. Margaret Pepe).
  • Rebecca A. Hubbard, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, July 27. Health Sciences E212.  “Modeling a non-homogeneous markov process via time transformation” (Prof. Lurdes Inoue).
  • Michael L. Jackson, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 25. Health Sciences T-478.  “Influenza vaccination and the risk of community-acquired pneumonia in seniors” (Prof. Lisa Jackson).
  • Andrew Kutscher, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 30. Guthrie Hall, 315.  “Role of synaptic inhibition in shaping response properties of neurons in the intermediate nucleus of the lateral lemniscus” (Prof. Ellen Covey).
    Alison P. Leary, Psychology, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Monday, July 23. Guthrie Annex 1, 120.  “Emotion regulation in pediatric cancer survivors: the coping after cancer study” (Prof. Lynn Fainsilber Katz).
  • Meredith J. Lee, English, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 31. Padelford A 106.  “Writing as cultural action: student writing at a bicultural school” (Prof. Anis Bawarshi).
  • Tao Ling, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 31. Physics/Astronomy Tower B042.  “High resolution gamma detector for small-animal positron emission tomography” (Prof. Thompson Burnett).
  • Janet D. Lowe, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 27. Health Sciences T 739.  “Differential regulation of opioid receptors by GRK and arrestin” (Prof. Charles Chavkin).
  • Katy Danel Masuga, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 25. Padelford Hall, B-526.  “The secret violence of Henry Miller” (Prof. Leroy Searle).
  • Jesse Thomas Mccann, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 20. Chemistry 102.  “Novel Routes for Controlling the Composition, Morphology and Arrangement of Electrospun Nanofibers” (Prof. Younan Xia).
  • Tema Milstein, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 24. Communications Bldg., 102-E.  “Communication as environmental resource:  An ethnographic exploration of endangered whale watching and human-nature relations” (Prof. Gerry Philipsen).
  • Rachel E. Mohler, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Chemistry Bldg., 102.  “Discovery based yeast metabolomic analysis using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry and chemometrics” (Prof. Robert Synovec).
  • Mary Dianne Plummer, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 27. Guthrie Annex 1, room 120.  “Sexual racism: a qualitative exploration of racial dynamics in gay communities” (Prof. Jane Simoni).
  • Ming Qiao, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Anderson 22.   (Prof. Richard Gustafson).
  • Nancy Lynn Rickerson, Education, Ed.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 23. Miller Hall, 206.  “Postsecondary success for culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities” (Prof. Bradley Portin).
  • Timothy A. Robertson, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 30. Foege 060.  “Development and validation of statistical potential functions for the prediction of protein/nucleic-acid interactions from structure” (Prof. Gabriele Varani).
  • Jeremy Stephen Roethler, History, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Smith 203E.  “Germany’s Catholic fraternities and the Weimar Republic” (Prof. Uta Poiger).
  • Steven Schimmel, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 26. Electrical Engineering 303.  “Theory of modulation filtering and applications to hearing devices” (Prof. Les Atlas).
  • Aaron Patrick Shon, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 30. Computer Science & Engineering Allen Center 303.  “Bayesian cognitive models for imitation” (Prof. Rajesh Rao).
  • Silvia Tejeda, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. Health Sciences H-670.  “Approaches to promoting mammography screening in Hispanic women” (Prof. Engelberta Thompson).
  • Lori Lyn Trego, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1. Health Sciences T305.  “Menstruation during deployment: military women’s attitudes towards menstrual suppression” (Prof. Nancy Woods).
  • Ming-Yi Tsai, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. noon Monday, July 23. Health Sciences T478.  “The Washington spray drift studies:  understanding the broader mechanisms of pesticide spray drift” (Prof. Michael Yost).
  • Aaron J. Tyznik, Immunology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 27. Health Sciences, K-069.  “The role of CD4+ T cell help in CD8+ T cell response to cell-associated antigens” (Prof. Michael Bevan).
  • Guo Ying Zhang, Business School, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, July 30. Mackenzie Hall, 367.  “Three essays on managing information systems security:  Patch management, learning dynamics,  and security market” (Profs. Debabrata Dey & Yong Tan).