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Meetings

Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 20 in the Walker Ames Room, Kane. 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

The Association for Women in Science
The March meeting of the Seattle Area Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) will be from 7:30­ 9 p.m Thursday, March 19, at NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Auditorium, 2725 Montlake East. Cynthia Orr, Performance Coach, will be speaking on Coping With Career Changes: Dynamic Professional Woman or Shrinking Violet? For more information call Kay Stremler at (206) 325-9977 or Helen Powell at (206) 328-7561.

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. Visitors and guests are welcome. Call Amy Studer, 521-1667.
Harborview Toastmasters Club

Al Anon
AlAnon Open Meeting for friends and families of alcoholics, 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays in 217 Loew.

Classes

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

  • Career Planning for the 21st Century, 8:30 a.m.­12:30 p.m., Friday, March 6.
  • Critical Information for UW Building Coordinators, 9:30 a.m.­noon, Wednesdays, Mar. 11 and 18.
  • Managing and Motivating Students and Hourly Staff, 1:30­4:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, Mar. 10 and 12.
  • Total Quality Management: Principles and Procedures, 12:30­4:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Mar. 11 and 18.
    Training and Development

    Safety Classes
    Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following classes to University personnel free. Pre-registration is required; call 543-7201.

  • Compressed Gas Safety Training: 1:30­2:30 p.m. March 11, 307 Hall Health.
  • Basic Citizen Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training, 9 a.m.­noon March 11, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.
  • Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control: 1:30­2:30 p.m. March 17, T-473, HSC.
  • Managing Laboratory Chemicals: 9:30­11:30 a.m. March 18, T-359 HSC.
  • Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) 1­4 p.m. March 25, HSC.
  • Fall Protection: 9:30­11 a.m. March 26, 301 Hall Health.
  • Earthquake/Disaster Preparedness: 1:30­3 p.m. April 1, 301Hall Health.

    A training schedule is also available at our website: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
    Environmental Health & Safety

    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

  • Kerim Yunus Aydin, Fisheries, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 207 Fisheries Center. (Prof. Robert Francis).
  • Richard Allyn Black, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 6. 206D Guggenheim. (Prof. David Scott Eberhardt).
  • Maximiliane Silvia Boeckl, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. 319 Bagley. (Prof. Tomikazu Sasaki).
  • Lihua Chen, Pathology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, March 6. B508 Health Sciences. (Prof. Alexander Clowes).
  • Renee Sue Chmelar, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. J675 Health Sciences. (Prof. Neil Nathanson).
  • Anupam Kumar Dattamajumdar, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. T635 Health Sciences. (Prof. Roy Martin).
  • Rogelio Preciado Diaz, Chemistry, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. J. Michael Schurr).
  • Tiernan Rucksack Fogarty, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 11. 408D Applied Math Library. (Prof. Randall LeVeque).
  • Steven Gregory Gerst, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. 207 Old Oceanography. (Prof. Paul Quay).
  • Hillary Seth Hayden, Botany, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. 546 Hitchcock. (Prof. J. Robert Waaland).
  • Kevin L Krisciunas, Astronomy, Ph.D. noon Monday, March 9. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Christopher Stubbs).
  • Morgan B Lewis, Economics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. 302 Savery. (Prof. Robert Halvorsen).
  • Elizabeth Michelle Long, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, March 9. T498 Health Sciences. (Prof. Julie Overbaugh).
  • Kimberlee Ann Mc Donald, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 6. 107A Anderson. (Prof. Robert Lee).
  • Marina P de Mc Vittie, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 9:45 a.m. Thursday, March 12. B202 Padelford. (Prof. Lauro Flores).
  • Anhtuan Duong Ngo, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 206D Guggenheim. (Prof. Uy-Loi Ly).
  • Bede Pittenger, Physics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12. C421 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Samuel Fain).
  • David Walter Robinson, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, March 6. 109 Benson. (Prof. James Rogers).
  • Eugenio Santiago-Valentin, Botany, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, March 6. 546 Hitchcock. (Prof. Richard Olmstead).
  • Stacey Lynn Shook, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, March 9. 172B Experimental Education Unit. (Prof. Felix Billingsley).
  • Shozo H Sugiura, Fisheries, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 11. 237 Marine Studies. (Prof. Faye Dong).
  • L Ligaya B Suzuki, Nursing - School of, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, March 12. T404 Health Sciences. (Prof. Katherine Graham).
  • William Ronald Jr Turner, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 22 Anderson. (Prof. Gerard Schreuder).
  • Josette Marie Ungos, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, March 9. K250 Health Sciences. (Prof. David Raible).
  • Linda Kristine Williams, Art History, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. 359 Art. (Prof. Joanne Snow-Smith).

    Final Exams

  • Luann R Albertson, Education, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, March 6. 423A Miller. "A cognitive-behavioral intervention study: Assessing the effects of strategy instruction on story-writing." (Prof. Donald Mizokawa).
  • Mark Robert Andersen, Public Health and Community Medicine - Environmental Health, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, March 12. 229 Roosevelt. "Cytochrome p450 expression: A biomarker of chemical exposure and a tool for basic research." (Prof. Curtis Omiecinski).
  • Donna Baker, Art History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, March 9. 359 Art. "The artistic and sociological imagery of the merchant-banker on the book covers of the Biccherna in Siena in the Early Renaissance." (Prof. Joanne Snow-Smith).
  • Julia Eve Dallman, Zoology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, March 6. 114 Kincaid. "The role of voltage-gated ion channels in the development of muscle cells of an ascidian tadpole larva." (Prof. William Moody).
  • Martin William Dorn, Fisheries, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday, March 12. 288 Fisheries. "Hierarchical models of fishing behavior by factory trawlers in a mid-water trawl fishery for Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus)." (Prof. Gordon Swartzman).
  • C Jill Grady, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 6. M40 Denny. "Huichol authenticity." (Prof. Eugene Hunn).
  • Katsuyuki Miyahira, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 205 Raitt. "Intercultural coordination of discursive self: Directive-response organizations in team-taught English classes." (Prof. Gerry Philipsen).
  • Brian Coolidge O'Regan, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 12. . "Dye sensitized n-p heterojunctions of T.O2 and CuScn. A new interface for photo-induced charge separation." (Prof. Martin Gouterman).
  • Edmund Quincy Searles, Anthropology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 401 Denny. "From town to outpost camp: Symbolism and social action in the Canadian Eastern Arctic." (Prof. Eugene Hunn).
  • Sara Manvel Steen, Sociology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. 119 Savery. "Professions in conflict: Medical and legal control of juvenile sex offenders." (Prof. George Bridges).
  • Christopher John Thompson, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 220 Kane. "A linear, stochastic, dynamical model of El Nino/southern oscillation." (Prof. Ka-Kit Tung).
  • John Keim Wenburg, Fisheries, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. 201 Fisheries. "The Coastal Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki): Genetic population structure, migration patterns, and life history traits." (Prof. Christopher Foote). ¶