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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

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

  • Gregory Methven Barton, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20. H562 Health Sciences. (Prof. A. Rudensky)
  • Rex Nyle Clarke II, Geography, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20. 409 Smith. (Prof. L. Jarosz)
  • Michael James Halvorson, History, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20. 109 Smith. (Prof. M. O'Neil)
  • Minh-Anh Thi Hodge, Education, Ed.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23. M210 Miller. (Prof. J. Bamburg)
  • Hyojin Kang, Music, D.M.A. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Fish Bowl, Music. (Prof. A. Kaplan)
  • Davy Muth, Education, Ed.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. 122 Miller. (Prof. G. Gay)
  • Laura Moon Newcomer, Epidemiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. 326 Metropolitan Park II, FHCRC. (Prof. J. Potter)

    Final Exams

  • Hans Peter Broedel, History, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. 320 Smith. Dissertation: "The 'Malleus maleficarum' and the construction of witchcraft: Encounters with the supernatural between theology and popular belief." (Prof. R. Stacey)
  • Daniel Haskel, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. C520 Physics/Astronomy. Dissertation: "Local structural studies of oriented La{2-x}(Sr,Ba){x}CuO{4} high temperature superconductors by polarized XAFS spectroscopy." (Prof. E. Stern)
  • Astrid M. Perez-Clark, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. 102 Chemistry. Dissertation: "An application of near-infrared spectroscopy for the determination of biomass viability." (Prof. B. Kowalski)
  • Sirirat Pleanbangyang, Nursing, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. T513 Health Sciences. Dissertation: "A causal model of physical and social functioning of older adults with urinary incontinence in Thailand". (Prof. H. Budzynski)
  • David Harold Smith, Pharmacy, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. I132 Health Sciences. Dissertation: "An evaluation of pharmacist's cognitive service interventions on compliance and utilization of health services." (Prof. A. Stergachis)
  • Fuming Wang, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23. B439 Physics/Astronomy. Dissertation: "XAFS study of solid-solid transitions under high pressure." (Prof. R. Ingalls)
  • Eric Ross Weiss, Physics, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. B205 Physics/Astronomy. Dissertation: "A measurement of the branching ratio Rb using a minimum missing Pt corrected mass tag." (Prof. V. Cook). ¶