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Meetings

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 15 in the Walker-Ames Room of Kane Hall. 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

Grant & Contract Administration

There will be an open meeting for faculty and staff input on improving grant and contract administration, 3­4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19 in WCG-103, UW Tacoma.

Office of Research

Other News

Study Subjects Wanted

The University of Washington Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center is investigating the genetics of reading and writing disabilities. We are looking for large families that have many people with a history of reading and/or writing problems across generations. It is important that many members of the family be in the greater Seattle area to participate. Interested families should contact Dr. Wendy Raskind at 543-3177.

Degree Exams

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

General Exams

  • Amar Ulhas Andalkar, Physics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. E. Norval Fortson).
  • Elena Halley Chartoff, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 18. K550 Health Sciences. (Prof. Daniel Dorsa).
  • Heather Colburn Edberg, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, May 21. 134 Chemistry Library. (Prof. Bruce Kowalski).
  • Anthony Paul Esposito, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Philip Reid).
  • Brooks C Holtom, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 20. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Thomas Lee).
  • Mary Holland Johnson, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 19. 303 EE/CSE. (Prof. Eve Riskin).
  • Claire Agnes Jones, Music, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21. Faculty Lounge, Music. (Prof. Ter Ellingson).
  • Joseph Henri Jupille, Political Science, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21. 40 Smith. (Prof. James Caporaso).
  • Isabelle Sarton Miller, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 20. 401 Denny. (Prof. David Tracer).
  • Cliona Mary O'Mahony, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. 134 Chemistry Library. (Prof. Bruce Kowalski).
  • Karrie Lynn Recknor, Psychology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 18. Conference Room, Guthrie Annex III. (Prof. Ana Mari Cauce).
  • Marcia Williams Swanson, Public Health and Community Medicine - Epidemiology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21. I-142 Health Sciences. (Prof. Victoria Holt).
  • Melissa Anne Wall, Communications, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 15. 126 Communications. (Prof. Nancy Rivenburgh).
  • George Woltz Pollard York, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 21. 420 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Yongmin Kim).

    Final Exams

  • Silvia Graciela Bompadre, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Bremsstrahlung x-ray holography.” (Prof. Larry Sorensen).
  • Cynthia Nova Cudaback, Geophysics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 15. 164 Johnson. “The effect of vertical mixing on along-channel transport in a layered flow.” (Prof. David Jay).
  • Gigi L Devault, Education, Ed.D. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 21. 172 EEU. “Emerging inclusion of middle-grade level students with severe problem behavior: A qualitative study of policy and supports.” (Prof. Sheila Lowenbraun).
  • Darla Ann Elswick, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 15. 250 Mechanical Engineering. “Spatial prediction of phosphorus and algal biomass in cobble/gravel-bed rivers during summer conditions.” (Eugene Welch).
  • Paula Louise Fischhaber, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 15. 102 Chemistry. “DNA-protein interactions: Investigations at the molecular interfaces of two systems.” (Prof. Paul Hopkins).
  • Karen Miller Gourd, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 20. 112A Miller. “Freire's liberatory model of education: Transformation at the classroom level.” (Prof. James Vasquez).
  • Mary C Harris, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. T305 Health Sciences. “The social construction of prematurity: Negotiations in neonatal intensive care.” (Prof. David Allen).
  • James Dale Holloway, Music, D.M.A., 1 p.m. Friday, May 15. Faculty Lounge, Music. “Performance convention and registrational practice in the Weimar organ works of Franz Liszt.” (Prof. Carole Terry).
  • Trachette Levon Jackson, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 21. A110 Physics/Astronomy. “Mathematical models in two-step cancer chemotherapy.” (Prof. James Murray).
  • Edward William Kempema, Oceanography, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 18. 123 Marine Sciences. “Ice formation and sediment transport in southern Lake Michigan.” (Prof. Richard Sternberg).
  • Shawn Marie Kneipp, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, May 15. T404 Health Sciences. “Women affected by U.S. welfare reform: Considering health and its relationship to public policy.” (Prof. Marcia Killien).
  • Thomas Simon Lumley, Public Health and Community Medicine - Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19. F643 Health Sciences. “Marginal regression modelling of weakly dependent data.” (Prof. Patrick Heagerty).
  • Cary Joseph Martin, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 15. 260 Bagley. “Prepreg effects on honeycomb composite manufacturing.” (Prof. James Seferis).
  • Patrick William Nelson, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. 317 Guggenheim. “Spatio-temporal models in immunology and biology.” (Prof. James Murray).
  • Nadine Ann Nereson, Geophysics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21. 154 QRC. “The history of ice flow at Siple Dome, West Antarctica and implications for the past activity of ice streams C and D.” (Prof. Charles Raymond).
  • Ann Stuart Pancake, English, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 18. A101C Padelford. “Past (Im)perfect and the present progressive: Time in American's class consciousness.” (Prof. Carolyn Allen).
  • Janette Yvette Taylor, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, May 15. T513 Health Sciences. “Resilience and recovering among African American women survivors of domestic violence.” (Prof. Nancy Woods).
  • Kristina Diann Thiagarajan, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 19. T513 Health Sciences. “Social support, stress, problem solving, coping, acceptance of diabetes, & self-management as predictors of metabolic control & quality of life among adults with insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus.” (Prof. Helen Kogan-Budzynski).
  • Siri G Tuttle, Linguistics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, May 18. 110 Lewis Annex I. “Metrical and tonal structures in Tanana Athabaskan.” (Prof. Sharon Hargus).


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    May 14, 1998