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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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December 11-15, 2006

Examinations
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**Smita De
    General exam
    Monday, December 11 at 8:30 a.m.
    Allen Center for CSE (AE-108)
    "Characterizing the Damage-Stress Relationship at the Grasper-Tissue Interface in Minimally
         InvasiveSurgery"
    Drs. Blake Hannaford (chair; EE and adjunct in BioE), JoAnne Whitney (GSR; Biobehavioral
        Nursing and Health Systems), Cecilia Giachelli, Mika Sinanan (General Surgery, adjunct in
        EE), George Turkiyyah (Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Paolo Vicini

**Lingyun Liu
    PhD final exam
    Monday, December 11 at 10 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room
    "Controlling Protein Orientation, Conformation and Distribution on Surfaces to Modulate Cell
        Behavior for Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering Applications"
    Drs. Shaoyi Jiang (co-chair; ChemE and adjunct in BioE), Buddy Ratner (co-chair), Suzie
        Pun, Helene Sage (Biological Structure), and Wei Li (GSR; Mechanical Engineering)

**Rahber Thariani
    General exam
    Wednesday, December 13 at 2:30 p.m.
    Foege N403
    "SPRF (Surface Plasmon Resonance Fluorescence) and TIRF (Total Internal Reflection
        Fluorescence): Evanescent Choices in the Fluorescence Buffet"
    Drs. Paul Yager (chair), Dave Castner, Mike Regnier, and Suresh Kotha (GSR)

**Kalyan Vinnakota
    PhD final exam
    Thursday, December 14 at 1 p.m.
    UWMC, RR-202
    "pH Dynamics, Glycogenolysis and Phosphoenergetics in Isolated Cell Free Reconstituted
        Systems and in Mouse Skeletal Muscle"
    Drs. Martin Kushmerick (chair; Radiology, Bioengineering, Physiology and Biophysics),
        James Fine (GSR; Laboratory Medicine), Daniel A. Beard (affiliate faculty in
        Bioengineering, Physiology--Medical College of Wisconsin), and Kevin E. Conley
       (Radiology, Physiology and Biophysics)

Congratulations
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**Bioengineering has selected three students as Senior Capstone Scholarship recipients. Each
    will receive $1,500 from the department for winter quarter. Congratulations to Dan Blizzard,
    Medical Imaging (Dr. Pierre Mourad); Mirna Farika, Medical Imaging (Dr. Xingde Li); and
    Linda Chen, Computational Bioengineering (Dr. Wendy Thomas).

General
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**See you at this Monday’s (December 11) Bioengineering Department Holidays Party! It starts
    at 4 p.m. in the main Foege lobby and second floor common area. If you haven't signed up
    yet to bring a dish, please bring one anyway. Ditto if you want to join the band.

**Happy holidays to all!