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Meetings

Board of Regents
The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 in 310 HUB. The regents will meet in formal session to take official action on personnel appointments and changes, gifts and grants, contracts and agreements with outside agencies, and other University business.
Secretary of the Board

Retirement Association
The UW Retirement Association will meet Wednesday, Feb. 25. There will be a reception at 1:30 p.m. with the meeting beginning at 2:30 p.m. in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane. Heather Young, ERA Care, will speak on The Art of Living Well—Updates on University House and ERA Care.

Toastmasters Harborview
Harborview Toastmasters Club meets from noon­1 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of the month in the Harborview Board Room, 1-C-30.
Harborview Toastmasters Club

Classes

Training and Development
Training and Development will offer the following classes soon. For further information, call 3-1957.

  • Developing an Effective Job Description, 1­4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, Feb. 23 and 25.
  • Supervisory Roundtable: Challenging Staff Situations, 10 a.m.­noon Thursdays, Feb. 26, Mar. 5, 12, and 19.
  • The High Cost of Low Morale: A Management Challenge, 9 a.m.­noon Tuesday and Thursday, Feb. 24 and 26.
    Training and Development

    Other News

    UW Publications Services Open House

    Publications Services is holding an open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 at its building, 3900 7th Avenue N.E. Tours will depart from the third floor reception area every 15 minutes beginning at 9:15 a.m. The last tour begins at noon. There will also be ongoing question/answer sessions on desktop publishing and preparing files for printing, graphic design for print and for the web and mailing services. For additional information, see the web site: http://www.pubserv.washington.edu
    Publications Services

    Surplus Property

    The following are available for interdepartmental transfer:

  • WANTED TO BUY: Small flammable solvents storage locker. Call Scott Schwinge 543-1484.

    Degree Examinations:

    Members of the Graduate Faculty are invited to attend the General and Final Examinations. Supervisory committee chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.

    General Exams

  • Scott Alan Barboza, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. 311 Johnson. (Prof. G. Bergantz)
  • Jessica Ann Hamerman, Immunology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. H562 Health Sciences. (Prof. A. Aderem)
  • James Alfred Janack, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 13. 205 Raitt. (Prof. B. Warnick)
  • Robert Charles Lee, Environmental Health, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. Room 229, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE. (Prof. E. Faustman)
  • Gary Allen John Meints, Chemistry, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. G. Drobny)
  • P. Adriane Schaeffer, Sociology, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 13. 110C Savery. (Prof. R. Stark)
  • Eric Paul Ziegler, History, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19. 203B Smith. (Prof. R. Stacey)

    Final Exams

  • John E. Hokanson, Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. F643 Health Sciences. Dissertation: "Lipoprotein lipase heterozyosity is a cause of small low-density lipoproteins: Linkage analysis in families with structural mutations in the lipoprotein lipase gene." (Prof. M. Austin)
  • Bing-Sun Lee, Oceanography, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19. 123 Marine Sciences. Dissertation: "Uses of chlorofluorocarbons as ocean tracers and for estimating the removal rates of CFC-11 and carbon tetrachloride in certain marine environments." (Prof. R. Gammon)
  • Donald Everett Livingston, Jr., Slavic Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. M261 Smith. Dissertation: "Discontinuous case in Russian number phrases: An analysis under generalized phrase structure grammar." (Prof. H. Coats)
  • Theodore Haynes Romer, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. noon Wednesday, Feb. 18. 422 Sieg. Dissertation: "Using virtual memory to improve Cache and TLB performance." (Prof. B. Bershad)