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Meetings
Al Anon
AlAnon Open Meeting for friends and families of alcoholics, 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays in 217 Loew.
Classes
Training & Development
The following programs start soon. Call 3-1957 for information.
Making Managers into Leaders, 9:30 a.m.4 p.m., Thursday, June 4.
The Mediating Manager, 8:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 3.
Process Improvement: A Framework for Solving Problems, 8:30 a.m.4:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday, June 1 and 2.Training & Development
Funding Workshop
The workshop, “Finding Funding on the Internet: The Natural Sciences and Engineering” will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 29 in Collaboratory 2, Odegaard Library (ground floor). The workshop will cover strategies for finding information on the Internet about federal, foundation, and corporate funding opportunities with a focus on the disciplines in the Natural Sciences and Engineering. Participants do not have to be associated with these disciplines. Participants must be affiliated with the University and have a University e-mail account. No sign-up is necessary; Internet experience is recommended. Contact Anna Wheaton, 616-3083 or gfis@u.washington.edu or http://www.lib.washington.edu/libinfo/libunits/gfis for further information.
Summer Institute
UW advisers and other professional staff are eligible for a summer program sponsored by the College of Education, “Educational Leadership Institute: Examining the Transitions and Connections between K-12 and Higher Education.” The course is aimed at people who currently are or hope to become administrators, advisers, counselors or leaders in a college or university setting or in the K-12 system. Participants will improve leadership skills through concrete discussions and problem solving activities pertaining to real-life educational leadership challenges.
In addition to UW faculty, the instructional team includes: John Stanford, Seattle Public Schools; Lydia Ledesma-Reese, Skagit Valley Community College; Sister Kathryn Ross, Heritage College; Michael Riley, Bellevue School District; and Karen Morse, Western Washington University. Those interested can register for a one-week (July 1317) or two-week (July 1324) version. Graduate credits are available. All eligible UW and state employees may take advantage of the tuition exemption program for the institute. For more information or to register, contact Sheri Vahey at 543-1836.
Other News
Study Subjects Wanted
We are seeking married couples to assist in a study of communication and health. We would like to have an ethnically diverse sample of couples from the Seattle area so that our research may be helpful for people of various backgrounds. All information will remain confidential, and will only be seen by the research staff associated with the project. Married couples have the potential to earn up to $200. It will take approximately nine hours of your time during two sessions. Call the Family Formation Project in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington 543-8089. Leave your name and phone number on the answering machine, and we will contact you.
Surplus Property Auction
You can find a wide variety of furniture and equipment at the Surplus Property warehouse. These items are available for purchase by University departments. Many of the items will only be available until May 29; they will be sold at a Public Auction on June 6. The warehouse is open from 1 to 3:30 p.m, MondayFriday until May 22. To view items after this date, an appointment must be made with the warehouse staff. The warehouse is located at 1117 N.E. Boat St., behind the University Police department. To make an appointment or for more information, call the Surplus Property office at 685-1573 or send an inquiry via e-mail at surplus2@u.washington.edu.
Surplus Property Warehouse
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
Andrew Cameron Becker, Astronomy, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Christopher Stubbs).
Jeffrey Scott Crosland, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28. M230 Gowen. (Prof. Anne Yue-Hashimoto).
Rachel Dinitto, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. M230 Gowen. (Prof. John Treat III).
Kathy Sedoff Ewing, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. 112A Miller. (Prof. James Vasquez).
Jackie Katrina Gollan, Psychology, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. CCR, 1107 NE 45th St. Suite 310. (Prof. Neil Jacobson).
Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, Communications, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. 126 Communications. (Prof. Donald Pember).
Megumi Inoue, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28. M230 Gowen. (Prof. John Treat III).
Thitima Jintanawan, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. 259 Mechanical Engineering. (Prof. I-Yeu (Steve) Shen).
Sunah Kim, Social Work, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. 210F Social Work. (Prof. Tracy Harachi).
Jody Michael Klymak, Oceanography, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. 6th floor conference center, Applied Physics Lab. (Prof. Michael Gregg).
Jennifer Anne Leehey, Anthropology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. M32A Denny. (Prof. Charles Keyes).
Thad Ryan Leffingwell, Psychology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 22. 211 Guthrie. (Prof. Ronald Smith).
Elizabeth Tudor Miller, Psychology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, May 22. 120 Guthrie Annex III. (Prof. G. Alan Marlatt).
Mark Mussari, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. 314 Raitt. (Prof. Marianne Stecher-Hansen).
Rajesh Ranjan Nandy, Mathematics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. 107 Raitt. (Prof. Krzysztof Burdzy).
I-Ming Pao, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, May 28. 215F EE/CSE. (Prof. Ming-Ting Sun).
Dawn Laura Scovell, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D.
10 a.m. Thursday, May 28. 109 Benson. (Prof. Eric Stuve).
Kristin Rae Swanson, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 28. 408D Guggenheim. (Prof. James Murray).
Emily Makiko Yamada, Psychology, Ph.D. 9:15 a.m. Friday, May 22. 120 Guthrie Annex I. (Prof. Geraldine Dawson).
Final Exams
Kristin Ann Bates, Sociology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. 119 Savery. “Measuring family structure, family process, and juvenile delinquency: Theoretical and methodological issues.” (Prof. Robert Crutchfield).
Bart Alan Brashers, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 22. 64 Johnson. “Oceanic latent heat flux from satellite data.” (Prof. Robert Brown).
Patricia Mae Chandler, Education, Ed.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 28. M210 Miller. “Initial implementation of standards-based social studies: The experience of two fifth grade teachers.” (Prof. Richard Williams).
Yoonju Cho, Music, D.M.A. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. 101 Music. “A study on the Baroque tempo practices and their applications to the violoncello Suite No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach.” (Prof. Neal O'Doan).
Elise J Dallimore, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28. 205 Raitt. “The role of memorable messages in the socialization experiences of new university faculty: The impact of gender and disciplinary affiliation on the process of organizational and occupational assimilation.” (Prof. Ann Staton).
John Raymond Dennis, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 22. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Mechanisms of liquid crystal and biopolymer alignment on highly-oriented polymer thin films.” (Prof. Viola Vogel).
Eric Tomas Gortner, Psychology, Ph.D. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28. CCR, 1107 NE 45th St. #310. “Cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression: Relapse prevention.” (Prof. Neil Jacobson).
Carol A Hermer, Anthropology, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28. M42 Denny. “Performing our pasts: Representing history, representing self.” (Prof. Edgar Winans).
Todd Ian Herrenkohl, Social Work, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 26. Dean's Conference Room, Social Work. “An examination of neighborhood context and risk for youth violence.” (Prof. J. David Hawkins).
Lynn Carol Holley, Social Work, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 22. 210F Social Work. “Emerging ethnic agencies in communities of color: A study of missions, services, structures, and capacity-building needs.” (Prof. Anthony Ishisaka).
Jon Russell Jay, Mathematics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 28. C36 Padelford. “Recovering a layered viscoacoustic medium from its response to a point source.” (Prof. Kenneth Bube).
Yeun Seuk Jeung, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, May 28. 206D Guggenheim. “Finite element analyses for the sandwich structures with a viscoelastic-constrained layer.” (Prof. I-Yeu (Steve) Shen).
Eleanor Lydia Kim, Psychology, Ph.D. 8:45 a.m. Thursday, May 28. 120 Guthrie Annex I. “Implementation and evaluation of supportive telephone counseling in a primary care-based intervention with at-risk drinkers.” (Profs. Ana Mari Cauce and Susan Curry).
Xiaodong Li, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. 215C EE/CSE. “Bandwidth-efficient coded modulation and iterative decoding.” (Prof. James Ritcey).
Janet Anne Lohan, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 4:15 p.m. Thursday, May 28. T513 Health Sciences. “A comparison of parents' perceptions of family functioning and sibling grief in families who have experienced the violent death of an adolescent or young adult child.” (Prof. Karen Schepp).
Sharon F Matusik, Business Administration, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. “Ephemeral resources and firm knowledge: The case of the contingent workforce.” (Prof. Charles Hill).
Donald McKenzie, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 28. 22 Anderson. “Modeling large-scale fire effects: Concepts and applications.” (Prof. David Peterson).
Keitshokile Dintle Mogobe, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, May 22. T658 Health Sciences. “Denying and preserving self: Botswana women's experiences of infertility.” (Prof. Nancy Fugate Woods).
Riley M Peters, Public Health and Community Medicine—Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 28. F348 Health Sciences. “Risk factors associated with violence and recidivism.” (Prof. E. Russell Alexander).
Michael Francis Pettinger, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 22. B526 Padelford. “Sodom: A history of the pentapolis in the Christian west to the year 1000.” (Prof. Paul Remley).
Neetha Ravjee, Education, Ph.D. 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 22. 222 Miller. “Critical recognition, a framework for access: The case of engineering education.” (Prof. Donna Kerr).
Ann E Schmierer, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. RR 134 Health Sciences. “Macrophage interactions with biomaterials and their effects on endothelial cell activation.” (Prof. Buddy Ratner).
Satadru Sen, History, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28. 320 Smith. “Punishment and society in colonial India: The penal settlement in the Andaman Islands, 1858-1898.” (Prof. Frank Conlon).
William James Sunderland, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. T360 Health Sciences. “Nerve terminal protein complexes in the cholinergic synapse.” (Prof. Steven Carlson).
Paul William Taylor, Communications, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 22. 126 Communications. “Responding to the shock of the new: Trade, technology and the changing production axis in film, television and new media.” (Prof. John Bowes).
Masahiro Ueda, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, May 28. 22 Anderson. “Sugar in paper: Topochemistry and physics.” (Prof. G. Graham Allan).
Yvonne A Vogele, Germanics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 27. 308 Denny. “The reluctant witches in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmahrchen der Deutschen (1789-1792).” (Prof. Diana Behler).
Yujiao Wang, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, May 22. 22 Anderson. “An analysis of the employment impact of stumpage price increase policy in British Columbia.” (Prof. John Perez-Garcia).
Marjorie Joan Wells, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, May 28. T513 Health Sciences. “The effects of pets on children's stress responses during medical procedures.” (Prof. Patricia Betrus).
Gregory Michael Wolgamot, Pathology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, May 22. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Mus dunni Endogenous virus (MDEV).” (Prof. Arthur Miller).
Qi Yan, Biological Structure, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 22. K069 Health Sciences. “Regulation of retinal endothelial cells and pericytes by VEGF, TGF-B1 and SPARC.” (Prof. Anita Hendrickson). ¶
University Week
The faculty and staff publication of the University of Washington
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May 21, 1998
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