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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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May 29-June 1, 2007


Exams
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**Yang Mo Yoo
    PhD final exam
    Friday, June 1, at 10 a.m. in the Auth Conference Room (Foege N503)
    "Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging of Blood Flow and Tissue"
    Drs. Yongmin Kim (chair), Lawrence Crum, Shahram Vaezy, Xingde Li,
Ravi Managuli
        (Bioengineering affiliate), and Dayong Gao (GSR; Mechanical
Engineering)

**Scott Henry
    General exam
    Wednesday, May 30, at 3 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room
(Foege N130A)
    "pH-Responsive poly(Styrene-alt-Maleic Anhydride) Systems for
Anticancer Drug Delivery
        Applications"
    Drs. Patrick Stayton and Allan Hoffman (co-advisors), Suzie Pun,
Wayne Gombotz
        (Bioengineering affiliate), and Hong Shen (GSR; Chemical
Engineering)

**Jong Ho Won
    Qualifying exam
    Thursday, May 31, at 2 p.m. in Foege N403
    "The Effect of Electrical Stimulation on Auditory Maturation"
    Drs. Shahram Vaezy (chair), Francis (Sandy) Spelman, Lynne Werner
(Speech and Hearing),
        and Jay Rubinstein (advisor)


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, May 31, 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in Benson 117
    Scott Henry (Bioengineering graduate student)
        "pH-Responsive Micelles for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery"
    Annabel Tsai (Bioengineering graduate student)
        "Identification of Gene Expression Changes Leading to
Differential Angiogenesis as a
            Function of Biomaterial Pore Size"

**Nanotechnology (599F)
    Tuesday, May 29, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Younan Xia, professor
    UW Department of Chemistry
    "Nanostructured Materials by Electrospinning"

**Bioengineering (599O)
    Thursday, May 31, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar
Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Yongmin Kim, Simpson Endowed chair, professor, and chair
    UW Department of Bioengineering
    "Joys and Tribulations of Being the Chair of UW Bioengineering"

**Special Seminar
    Thursday, May 31, 9-10 a.m. in the Auth Conference Room (Foege N503)
    Dr. Myung-Haing Cho, professor
    Seoul National University Laboratory of Toxicology, College of
Veterinary Medicine and Nano
        Systems Institute-National Core Research Center
    "Application of Aerosol Gene Delivery as a Non-invasive Route of Gene
Transfection"
    Arranged by Dr. Suzie Pun

**Special Seminar
    Thursday, May 31, 3:30 p.m. in the WRF Conference Room (Foege N230)
    Dr. Michael Raghunath, associate professor
    National University of Singapore, Division of Bioengineering and
Department of Biochemistry
    "Crowding is Good For You - applications of the excluded volume
effect in biotechnology and
        bioengineering"
    Arranged by Dr. Jerry Pollack


Departmental Events Coming Up
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**Rushmer Lecture
    Thursday, June 7, from 4 to 5:20 p.m.
    Hogness Auditorium (HSB A-420)
    Dr. William Foege
    "Combining Art and Science for a Rational Future"
    Reception and student poster presentation:
    Foege BIOE lobby/Bioengineering Seminar Room, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
    Contact: Shirley Nolette (peters2@u.washington.edu)

**Departmental graduation
    Friday, June 8 at 6 p.m.
    Hogness Auditorium (HSB A-420)
    Reception:
    Foege Building Vista Cafe
    Contact: bioeng@u.washington.edu

**Reception for chair
    Tuesday, June 12, from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
    Foege Building Vista Cafe
    RSVP by May 29 to ykrsvp@u.washington.edu