Archive

August 2, 2007

Official notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents has cancelled its August meeting.

Blood Drives

Friday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Health Sciences lobby

Wednesday, Aug. 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., By George (bus parked by statue)

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 on-site courses focus on improving conversational skills and preparation for the TOEFL. 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.

Homestay families wanted for University of Washington international students

FIUTS Homestay hosts travel the world without leaving home!

More than 800 new international students will arrive at the UW in just a few short weeks — and homestay hosts are still needed to provide a warm welcome and an “American family” for students as they arrive in the US for the first time.

Homestay hosts are families, single individuals or couples who are interested in sharing their culture and meeting new friends from around the world. Most FIUTS homestays last one week — starting the day the student arrives in Seattle. Hosts often pick up their student at the airport and help them learn some of the basics of living in the US. By offering hospitality to international students, hosts form bonds of friendship that cross international borders and can last a lifetime.

The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) has been welcoming new international students to the University of Washington since 1948. FIUTS offers a twelve-day International Student Orientation program each fall, including daily sessions on topics ranging from study skills to local hiking trails.

At the intersection of the UW and our community, FIUTS inspires lifelong engagement in experiences that build global understanding. In addition to International Student Orientation, FIUTS produces a variety of programs designed to create a community of people, both on and off campus, who are committed to international understanding and cross-cultural friendship.

To become a FIUTS Homestay host, contact Homestay and Community Relations Coordinator Alicia van der Veen at 206-616-7025, or visit www.fiuts.org.

Applications invited

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from UW researchers 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. 15. 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 website at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.

Degree Exams

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

General Examinations

• Michele A. Bedard, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. Guthrie Annex 2, 202 B/C. (Prof. Lori Zoellner).
  
• Brian David Collins, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Quaternary Research Center 154. (Prof. David Montgomery).
  
• Emily D. Dolan, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. Health Sciences, H-670. (Prof. Bonnie McGregor).
  
• Teri M. Seeberger Greiling, Medicine Concurrent, PhD/MD. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Foege S-040. (Prof. John I. Clark).
  
• William Thomas Hamp, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Aerospace and Engineering Research Conference Room 130. (Prof. Thomas Jarboe).
  
• Julie N. Harris, Public Health Genetics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Health Sciences F348. (Prof. Deborah Bowen).
  
• Byron H. Hartman, Biological Structure, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. Health Sciences T-478. (Prof. Thomas Reh).
  
• Todd A. Jusko, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. FHCRC, M4-A823. (Prof. Anneclaire DeRoos).
  
• Michael B. Lowry, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8. More 218. (Prof. G. Scott Rutherford).
  
• Huong Q. Nguyen, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center D3-120. (Prof. Anna Wald).
  
• Timothy Michael O’neill, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. Gowen Hall, M-230. (Prof. David Knechtges).
  
• Elizabeth A. Stoll, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6. Health Sciences T474A. (Prof. Zhengui Xia).

Final Examinations

• Alicia M. Baranski, Biochemistry, Ph.D. noon Wednesday, Aug. 15. Foege Auditorium. “Regulation of somite myogenesis by cytokines occurs in specific somite regions and during distinct temporal periods” (Prof. Stephen Hauschka).
  
• Mythu Chiem, Social Work, Ph.D. noon Monday, Aug. 6. Social Work 210F. “Immigration, aging and life satisfaction among older Vietnamese refugees: a resilient perspective” (Prof. Anthony Ishisaka).
  
• Winyu Chinthammit, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8. Fluke Hall, Bowen Conference Room. “Hybrid inertial-laser scanning head tracking system for cockpit applications” (Prof. Thomas Furness).
  
• Yu Dai, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6. Health Sciences F 643. “Genetic association studies: exploiting SNP-Haplotype selection and covariate independence” (Profs. Charles Kooperberg & Michael LeBlanc).
  
• Tanya L. Daigle, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Health Sciences D 209. “Molucular mechanisms regulating CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling and internalization” (Prof. Ken Mackie).
  
• Linda M. Dong, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Arnold Buliding M4-A805/A817. “Genetic variations of calcium and vitamin D related genes and colon cancer risk” (Prof. Ulrike Peters).
  
• Kemal Ilgar Eroglu, Mathematics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. Padelford C-36. “Self-similar sets, projections and arithmetic sums” (Prof. Boris Solomyak).
  
• Victor M. Gehman, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6. Nuclear Physics Laboratory 178. “A multi-isotope analysis to extend the physics reach of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments, and the MAJORANA experiment’s efforts to mitigate its systematic uncertainties” (Prof. Steven Elliott).
  
• Lorna S. Kategaya, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13. Genome Sciences S-060. “Bili, a novel FERM domain containing protein negativity regulates Wnt/beta-catenin signaling” (Prof. Randall Moon).
  
• Elizabeth P. Kelly, Mathematics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Padelford C-36. “Connections between Schubert objects” (Prof. Sara Billey).
  
• Aaron M. Korkegian, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Pelton Auditorium. “Engineering yeast cytosine deaminase for improved efficacy in cancer gene dir
  
• William Ka-Wai Liu, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Chemistry 102.  “Room temperature electron spin dynamics in colloidal ZnO quantum dots” (Prof. Daniel Gamelin).
  
• Priscilla Lugo-Mas, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. Chemisty 102.  “Synthetic analogues of cysteinate-ligated non-heme iron enzymes: understanding the structure-function relationsip of nitrile hydratase (Nhase) and superoxide reductase (SOR)” (Prof. Julia Kovacs).
  
• Wenbo Luo, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3. Bioengineering N130.  “Detection and localization of arterial bleeding on extremities by ultrasound imaging” (Prof. Shahram Vaezy).
  
• Yunfei Ma, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. Mechanical Engineering 219A.  “Micromagnetic study of magnetoelastic materials” (Prof. Jiangyu Li).
  
• John Buchanan Mickett, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. Ocean Sciences 425.  “Turbulent entrainment fluxes in the Eastern Pacific warm pool” (Prof. Michael Gregg).
  
• Subramanian Ramachandran, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13. Physics Astronomy 520.  “Thermodynamic study of one and two dimensional neon adsorbed on single-walled carbon nanotube bundles” (Prof. Oscar E. Vilches).
  
• Yuksel Sezgin, Political Science, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 9. Gowen 1B.  “The state’s response to legal pluralism:  the case of religious law and courts in Israel, Egypt and India” (Prof. Joel Migdal).
  
• Kavita Virendra Shah, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Health Sciences K-069.  “The T cell regulator CTLA-4 is a direct target of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in melanoma” (Prof. Randall Moon).
  
• Claire Elizabeth Todd, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13. Johnson 111.  “Late quaternary evolution of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica” (Prof. John Stone).
  
• Nicholas Daniel Velluzzi, Geography, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3. Smith 412 A.  “Fermenting growth: Institutions, agency and the competitive foundation of localized learning in the Walla Walla wine industry” (Prof. James Harrington).
  
• Zejing Wang, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Pelton B1-065.  “Targetting Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a canine model” (Prof. Stephen Tapscott).
  
• Donna D. Whitsett, Psychology, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. Guthrie 315.  “Identifying the distress cues social-support providers use when making support-relevant judgments: a highly -repeated within-subjects approach” (Prof. Yuichi Shoda).
  
• Luke M. Williams, Immunology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Health Sciences K-069.  “The role of Foxp3 in the maintenance of dominant tolerance” (Prof. Alexander Rudensky).
  
• Kenneth Hart Williford, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. Johnson 117.  “Biogeochemistry of the Triassic/Jurassic boundary” (Prof. Peter D. Ward).
  
• Alexander P. Yates, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. Computer Science and Engineering Allen Center 303.  “Large-scale information extraction from the Web: techniques and applications” (Prof. Oren Etzioni).
  
• Jean Chiyon Yi, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13. Guthrie Annex 3, Conference Room.  “Ethnic minorities in couple therapy: a five year follow-up” (Prof. William George).
  
• Anahita E. Zarei, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8. Electrical Engineering 105.  “Intelligent systems for prediction and assessment in orthodontics” (Prof. Mohamed El Sharkawi).