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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, June 12, in 301 Gerberding 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

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

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

  • Fall Protection: (required for any employee working where there is a fall hazard greater than 10 feet): 1:30­ 3 p.m., June 3, 301 Hall Health.
  • Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): 1­4 p.m. June 9, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.
  • Managing Laboratory Chemicals: 9:30­11:30 a.m. June 10, T-359 HSC.
  • Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control: 9:30­10:30 a.m. June 11, T-359 HSC.

    A training schedule is also available at the Web site: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
    Environmental Health and Safety

    Urban Horticulture
    Pre-registration is required for all classes. Call 685-8033.

  • Natural Beauty: Spring Arrangements from your Garden, 7­9 p.m., Thursday, June 4, $15.
  • Nurseries of Vashon & Tacoma, 8 a.m.­5 p.m., Friday, June 5, $35.
  • Arboretum Plant Study Program, Sec. D, 9 a.m.­noon, Saturday, June 6, $17.
    Center for Urban Horticulture

    Other News

    Publications available
    The Report to Contributors 1996-97 and VISTAS, a newsletter for UW alumni, donors, and friends about the difference gifts make are available online at http://www.gifts.washington.edu. To order either publication, use the online request form or call Lauren Fortune, Donor Relations, at 685-1980.
    Office of Development

    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

  • Thomas Michael Braun, Public Health and Community Medicine—Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. F348 Health Sciences. (Prof. Ziding Feng).
  • Robert Arthur Efird, Anthropology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, June 4. M32A Denny. (Profs. Steven Harrell and Ann Anagnost).
  • Chanokporn Hanchanchaikul, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. T404 Health Sciences. (Prof. Terri Simpson).
  • Lian He, Physics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 1. B205 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Steven Wasserbaech).
  • Cynthia Dian Kelsey, Music, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 1. 101 Music. (Prof. Patricia Campbell).
  • Young Jae Lee, Music, D.M.A. 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 1. 114 Music. (Prof. Craig Sheppard).
  • Robert Todd Maney, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. G417 Health Sciences. (Prof. Linda Wordeman).
  • Sung-Hae Park, Pharmacy—Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. 439 Chemistry. (Prof. Heinz Floss).
  • Anne Elizabeth Raine, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 29. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Priscilla Wald).
  • Claudio Luis Rampoldi, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 29. 321 Roberts. (Prof. Thomas Pearsall).
  • Letitia Lynn Reason, Anthropology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, June 1. 401 Denny. (Prof. Donna Leonetti).
  • Eileen Celeste Riordan, Anthropology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. 401 Denny. (Prof. Donna Leonetti).
  • Paul E Rosenfeld, Forest Resources, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. 22 Anderson. (Prof. Robert Harrison).
  • Frank Thomas Rothaermel, Business Administration, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Charles Hill).
  • Brett Robert Schroeder, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. C421 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Marjorie Olmstead).
  • Simonida Rutar Thurber, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1. 134 Chemistry Library. (Prof. Bruce Kowalski).
  • Geralyn Rose Timler, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. 52 Social Work. (Prof. Lesley Olswang).
  • Sudan A Turner, Philosophy, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, June 1. 326 Savery. (Prof. Laurence BonJour).
  • Wen-Ling Wang, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. T513 Health Sciences. (Prof. Leona Eggert).
  • Tzong-Der Wu, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, June 4. 303 EE/CSE. (Prof. Jeng-Neng Hwang).
  • Hairong Yan, Anthropology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 29. M32A Denny. (Prof. Ann Anagnost).

    Final Exams

  • Sylvia Patricia Abbott, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, May 29. 222 Miller. “The effect of phonological awareness training and structural analysis training on the reading achievement of intermediate grade students.” (Prof. Virginia Berninger).
  • Margaret L Allen, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 29. D209 Health Sciences. “Post-transcriptional regulation of expression of the potassium channel, Kv1.1.” (Prof. Bruce Tempel).
  • Donna M Ambrozy, Education, Ph.D. 4:30 p.m. Monday, June 1. 402P Miller. “Medical student specialty choice and the influence of role models on primary care choices.” (Prof. Jerald Forster).
  • Timothy Jon Beechie, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, June 1. 22 Anderson. “Rates and pathways of recovery for sediment supply and woody debris recruitment in northwestern Washington streams, and implications for salmonid habitat restoration.” (Prof. Susan Bolton).
  • Derrick W Booth, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. 116 More. “A field study evaluation of the effectiveness of six industrial ventilation troubleshooting methodologies.” (Prof. Timothy Larson). 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 2. 324 Hitchcock. “Rapid chromatographic analysis using novel detection systems and chemometric techniques.” (Prof. Robert Synovec).
  • Cynthia Lee Burton, Mathematics, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. C36 Padelford. “Hopf algebras and Dieudonne modules.” (Prof. Paul Goerss).
  • Eve Christine Chaney, English, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. A101C Padelford. “ 'The aesthetic of lived life' from Wollstonecraft to Mill.” (Prof. Gary Handwerk).
  • Tzungming Cheng, Education, Ed.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. 222 Miller. “Comparative study of professional development proposed by Buddha and John Dewey.” (Prof. Donald Williams, Jr.).
  • William Glen Davids, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. 218 More. “Modeling of rigid pavements: Joint shear transfer mechanisms and finite element solution strategies.” (Prof. George Turkiyyah).
  • Michael Anthony del Aguila, Public Health and Community Medicine - Epidemiology, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Monday, June 1. F348 Health Sciences. “Assessment of physical activity in patients with diabetes.” (Prof. Gayle Reiber).
  • John Christopher Eby, History, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 1. 306 Smith. “The petrification of heresy: Concepts of heterodoxy in the early middle ages.” (Prof. Robin Stacey).
  • Penelope Jennings Eckert, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 12:40 p.m. Friday, May 29. 22 Anderson. “Social construction of a watershed: Changing water, changing land.” (Prof. Robert Lee).
  • Janet Lynn Erickson, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 1. 201 Winkenwerder. “The influence of regional, landscape, and local habitat conditions on bat activity in forests of the Pacific Northwest.” (Prof. Stephen West).
  • Richard Eyraud, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 4. 108 Parrington. “Native and non-native perception of / r/ and /1/ : A cross-language comparison of American and Finnish listeners.” (Prof. Patricia Kuhl).
  • William Joseph Freind, English, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 1. A101C Padelford. “Fragments and paradise: The general economy of Ezra Pound.” (Prof. Leroy Searle).
  • Anthony Mitchell Gades, Geophysics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, June 4. 154 ATG/QRC. “Basal properties of Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska and Siple Dome, West Antarctica determined from radio-echo sounding.” (Prof. Charles Raymond).
  • Paul Charles Galambos, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 2. 259 Mechanical Engineering. “Two-phase dispersion in micro-channels.” (Prof. Fred Forster).
  • Jayne Ann Goldstein, Pathology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, May 29. K069 Health Sciences. “Novel mutations of COL3A1 resulting in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV and their effect on the folding of Type III procollagen.” (Prof. Peter Byers).
  • Dennis Lee Haddock, Education, Ed.D. 7 a.m. Tuesday, June 2. M210 Miller. “Combining service and learning—the relationship between the fidelity of implementation and student satisfaction.” (Prof. Jerry Bamburg).
  • Chet Hedden, Education, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 29. 122 Miller. “A guided exploration model of problem-solving discovery learning.” (Prof. William Winn).
  • Moffett Lee Kable, Public Health and Community Medicine - Pathobiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. D209 Health Sciences. “Kinetoplastid RNA editing: Mechanistic analysis of guide RNA directed uridylate insertion into precursor mRNA.” (Prof. Kenneth Stuart).
  • Chung Han Kim, Economics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. 302 Savery. “Empirical studies on real exchange rates: Heteroskedasticity; cross country correlation; forecasting.” (Prof. Charles Engel).
  • Robert A Leathers, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 29. 237 Mechanical Engineering. “Inverse solution methods for optical oceanography.” (Prof. Norman McCormick).
  • Jack Lee-Jay Lo, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. 422 Sieg. “Exploiting thread-level parallelism on simultaneous multithreaded processors: Hardware and software techniques for effectively managing shared resources.” (Profs. Susan Eggers and Henry Levy).
  • Bettina Ulrike Matthias, Germanics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 29. 308 Denny. “Masken des Lebens - Gesichter des Todes: Zum Verhaltnis von Tod und Darstellung im erzahlerischen Werk Arthur Schnitzlers.” (Prof. Richard Gray).
  • Bryn David Nelson, Microbiology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 3. K069 Health Sciences. “Examining the role of MalG in the assembly and function of the maltose transport complex in Escherichia coli: Implications for the study of integral membrane proteins.” (Prof. Beth Traxler).
  • Gary Andrew Norris, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Monday, June 1. T360 Health Sciences. “Air pollution and the exacerbation of asthma in an arid, western, US city.” (Prof. Timothy Larson).
  • Kelly Anne Regal, Pharmacy—Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. K069 Health Sciences. “Caffeine as an active site probe of cytochrome P4501A2.” (Prof. Sidney Nelson).
  • Judith Lorraine Rutberg, Education, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. 212 Miller. “A comparison of two treatments for remediating handwriting disabilities.” (Prof. Virginia Berninger).
  • Tzymei Alexasia Shih, Education, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Monday, June 1. Dean's Office Conference Room, Education. “Against the odds: College-bound at-risk students.” (Prof. Susan Nolen).
  • Jacquelyn Legall Sloan, English, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 1. A101C Padelford. “Oppositional structure and design in D.H. Lawrence's culture critique: A feminist re-reading.” (Prof. Sydney Kaplan).
  • Tasha Jean Souza, Speech Communication, Ph.D. noon Friday, May 29. 205 Raitt. “The social construction of communication climate: An analysis of at-risk students in alternative high school.” (Prof. Ann Staton).
  • Eric Joel Stollnitz, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, June 1. 422 Sieg. “Reproducing color images with custom inks.” (Prof. Loyce Adams).
  • Kathleen Mueller Tangenberg, Social Work, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, June 1. Dean's Conference Room, Social Work. “Marginalized epistemologies: Bodily and spiritual knowing among HIV-positive mothers.” (Prof. Susan Kemp).
  • Jeffrey Michael Thompson, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 29. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “The electronic structure and spectra of small metal clusters.” (Prof. Aurel Bulgac).
  • Sathya Dev Venkata Uppala, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 29. 303 EE/CSE. “Analysis and synthesis of linear multiuser detectors.” (Prof. John Sahr).
  • Stephen George Wampler, Music, D.M.A. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, June 4. 101 Music. “A brass player's guide to the transcription and performance of J.S. Bach's six suites for violoncello solo.” (Prof. Stuart Dempster).
  • Jia Wei, Pharmacology, Ph.D. noon Monday, June 1. T473 Health Sciences. “Regulation of adenylyl cyclase by Cam kinases: A possible role during signal desensitization in olfaction.” (Prof. Daniel Storm).
  • Ying Zhang, Statistics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. 326 Communications. “Estimation for counting processes with incomplete data.” (Prof. Jon Wellner).


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    May 28, 1998