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Dear Bioengineering Department members:

I'm trying out a new announcements format, hoping to make it easier for us to find, take in, and share information. This format can keep evolving in response to your ideas. Please let me know what you like and don't like, and tell me if something doesn't work well on your system.

Also, next week I will try adding a link to a PDF supplement that will have photos and informal professional and personal announcements -- such as a conference, equipment loans needed, congratulations, freebies, maybe even new babies. Let me know what you want to see and share with the department. Send these informal announcements to me, and photos if desired.

Your communications will be an important part of the PDF, so please send me stuff! This is a new way for us to keep in touch with each other, inspired by all of us being in the same building.

Thanks in advance for your ideas and patience as I learn how to do this and we explore its potential.

—Anita (awahler@u.washington.edu)

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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS for May 15-19, 2006
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Examinations
Departmental Seminars
Congratulations
General Information
Other Events

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EXAMINATIONS
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**Jason Hwang
    General exam
    Monday, May 15 at 2 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Microspheres for Delivery of Angiogenic Protein Therapeutics"
    Drs. Patrick Stayton (co-chair), Allan Hoffman (co-chair), James Bryers, Marta Scatena, and Miqin Zhang (Materials Science and Engineering)

**Yingying Gu
    PhD qualifying exam
    Tuesday, May 16 at 1 p.m.
    Foege N303
    "Ultrasound-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery for Chemo Cancer Therapy"
    Drs. Larry Crum (chair), Xingde Li, Chun Yuan (Radiology and adjunct in Bioengineering), and Kirk Beach (advisor)

**Jackie Callihan
    PhD qualifying exam
    Tuesday, May 16 at 3 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Oriented Laminin for Superior Biocompatibility of Keratoprostheses"
    Drs. Lara Gamble (chair), David Castner, Shaoyi Jiang (Chemical Engineering and adjunct in Bioengineering), and James Bryers (advisor)

**Kyung Park
    PhD qualifying exam
    Thursday, May 18 at 2:30 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "The Identification of Dendritic Cell Subtypes Associated with Implant Biomaterials and the Molecular Mechanisms that Drive Their Differentiation in vivo"
    Drs. Ceci Giachelli (chair), Marta Scatena, Richard Darveau (Periodontics and Oral Biology, adjunct in Microbiology), and James Bryers (advisor).

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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
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**Bioengineering Seminar
    Thursday, May 18 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Carlos Pellegrini, professor and chair of Surgery at UW
    "Creating a Simulation Center to Learn Procedural Tasks: How Can This Benefit Surgery and Bioengineering?"

**BIOEN 511 (Biomaterials Seminar)
    Thursday, May 18 from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m.
    Benson 117
    Dr. Guilin Jiang, Bioengineering senior fellow
    "An Application of Surface Modification in MALDI-MS"
    Jennifer Foley, Bioengineering graduate student
    "Surface Characterization of Microcontact Printed Proteins on Gold"

**BIOEN 599F (Nanotechnology Seminar)
    Tuesday, May 16 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
    Bagley 260
    Dr. Hong Yang, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester
    "Synthesis and Property of Platinum-Based Nanostructures"

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CONGRATULATIONS
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**Based on their excellent academic record and interest in the liberal arts, Bioengineering undergraduates Daniel Blizzard and James Kuo have been invited to join the UW Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the 2005-2006 academic year; they plan to accept. The initiation ceremony will be Thursday, June 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the HUB Auditorium. Congratulations!

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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**A half-time summer TA position is available for a Bioengineering graduate student with experience in microbiology, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, or tissue culture. The TA will work with students in the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity program (see http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/about/news/newsletter/2006-winter.pdf, page 3). Contact Dr. Richard To (rto@u.washington.edu) or Ms. Teri Ward (tlward@u.washington.edu) if interested.

**Fifteen new computers will be set up this week in N150 (the General Use Computing Lab), and 24 will be set up next week in N140 (the Advanced Lab). Congratulations and thank you to Norbert Berger for his work on the successful Student Technology Fee proposal that provided us with these new systems! Contact him at 543-9757 or norbert@u.washington.edu if you have questions.

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OTHER EVENTS
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**A panel discussion titled "The Future of Engineering in Medicine" will be held Tuesday, May 16 from 5 to 6 p.m. in ME 246. The moderator is Dr. Yongmin Kim, and panelists include Dr. Kirk Beach (Surgery and adjunct in Bioengineering), Dr. Bob DuBose (director of bioinformatics and computational biology, Amgen), and Dr. Howard Chizeck (EE). Sponsors are the UW IEEE EMBS Student Club and IEEE EMBS Seattle. See http://students.washington.edu/embs or email embs@u.washington.edu for more information.

**Our building namesake, Dr. William Foege, will present "Global Health: Looking for Shortcuts" on Thursday, May 18 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Hogness Auditorium (HSB A420) for the 2006 Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture.