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)

PDF Announcements


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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS for May 22-26, 2006
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Examinations
Departmental Seminars
Congratulations
General Information
Other Events

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EXAMINATIONS
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**Jessica Foley
PhD final exam
Monday, May 22 at 1 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
"High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound as a Novel Method of
Nerve Conduction Block: Dose-Dependent Effects Range
from Partial to Complete Block"
Drs. Shahram Vaezy (chair), Lawrence Crum, James Little
(RehabilitationMedicine), Pierre Mourad (Neurosurgery),
and Michael Chang (GSR, Rehabilitation Medicine)

**Jason Li
MS final exam
Tuesday, May 23, at 12 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
"Assembly of Gene Delivery Nanoparticles Using Rapid
Microfluidic Mixing."
Drs. Paul Yager (advisor), Albert Folch, and Kenneth
Longmuir (UC Irvine)

**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)


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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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GENERAL INFORMATION
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OTHER EVENTS
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