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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, July 17, 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

Classes

Forest Resources
“Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Natural Resource Professionals,” 8 a.m.­5 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, 22 Anderson, $80. Forest Resources, 543-0867.

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

  • Managing Laboratory Chemical & Spill Clean-up: 9:30­11:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 1, T-359 HSC.
  • Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control: 1:30­3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, T-359 HSC.
  • Hearing Conservation: 1:30­2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, 301 Hall Health.
  • Shipping and Transporting Infectious Substances: 1:30­2:30 p.m. Thursday, July 9, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.
  • Office Ergonomics/Workstation Design: 9:30­11 a.m. Tuesday, July 14, 268 Marine Studies.
  • First Aid/CPR Certification: 12:30­
    4:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, July 14 & 16, (8 hours, over 2 days) 32 Social Work.
  • Managing Laboratory Chemicals and Spill Clean-up: 9:30­11:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 15, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.
  • Laboratory Fire Safety (with hands-on extinguisher training): 9:30­11 a.m., Thursday, July 16, T-474 HSC.

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

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

  • Nurseries of Snohomish and Gold Bar, 8 a.m.­5 p.m., Friday, June 26, $35.
  • General Garden Carpentry Skills, 9­
    11 a.m., Saturday, June 27, $23.
    Center for Urban Horticulture

    Other News

    Study Subjects Wanted
    The UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) is currently enrolling volunteers in several studies. Volunteers are vital to the center’s ongoing effort to better understand Alzheimer’s disease. To this end, the UW ADRC is looking for people with Alzheimer’s disease as well as healthy older individuals without Alzheimer’s disease to participate in research. Research volunteers receive free physical and neurological examinations by experts in the field of geriatrics; supportive counseling and problem solving for caregivers; opportunities to receive medications not yet available; updates on the latest research, even after a study is completed; and referrals to many other helpful resources. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in a study or learning more about specific studies, call Beth at 764-2069.
    Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

    Blood Drive

    Blood Drive, 10 a.m.­4 p.m., Friday, July 6, HUB.
    Blood Services

    Travel Services Available

    The Hall Health Travel Clinic: University of Washington at Hall Health Primary Care Center on upper campus is ready to help you have a safe and productive journey, whether for business, field study or pleasure. Everyone is eligible to use our services, whether associated with the UW or not. When possible, try to call 4­6 weeks before departure so that immunizations can be scheduled at your convenience. Appointments: 685-1071. Information: 685-1060 (voice mail) or travel@u.washington.edu.

    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

  • Jodi Louise Carson, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 30. 119 More. (Profs. Fred Mannering and Joe Mahoney).
  • Saket Kumar, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 1. 22 Anderson. (Prof. Richard Gustafson).
  • Derek Edward Lang, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 1. 206D Guggenheim. (Prof. Arthur Mattick).
  • Narasimhan Karl Larkin, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 1. 123 Marine Sciences. (Prof. Don Harrison).
  • Theresa Joette May, Drama, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 26. 301 Hutchinson. (Prof. Barry Witham).
  • Sherri Lynn Rogalski, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 26. MCB Conference Room, Health Sciences. (Prof. Charles Chavkin).
  • Karl H Seeley, Economics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 9. Large conference room, Savery. (Prof. Gardner Brown).
  • Anna Margareta Sonnerup, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 1. 314 Raitt. (Prof. Ann-Charlotte Gavel-Adams).

    Final Exams

  • James D Baker, Zoology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, June 26. 114 Kincaid. “Hormones, physiology, and behavior of young adult Drosophila melanogaster.” (Prof. James Truman).
  • Michael Barry Fisher, Pharmacy—Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 7. T739 Health Sciences. “Enzymology and mechanisms of cytochrome P450-catalyzed aliphatic desaturation.” (Prof. Allan Rettie).
  • Kelly Alexandra Forrest, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 6. 211 Guthrie. “Explicit memory and dissociative identity disorder: The function of one-way amnesia barriers.” (Prof. Elizabeth Loftus).
  • Andrea Beth Freed, Education, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, July 7. 222 Miller. “Constructing constructivism: The voyage of elementary science teachers.” (Prof. Catherine Taylor).
  • Jeffrey Spencer George, Physics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday, July 2. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Experimental study of the atmospheric Nu mu/Nu e ratio in the multi-GeV energy range.” (Prof. Richard Wilkes).
  • David Reinier Hasenstab, Pathology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 2. T733 Health Sciences. “Animal models of atherosclerosis: Overexpression of plasminogen activator inhibitor Type I (PAI-1) and tissue factor.” (Prof. Alexander Clowes).
  • Thomas Daniel Jarvi, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 2. 117 Benson. “Electrocatalysis of methanol oxidation on clean, poisoned, and promoted platinum surfaces.” (Prof. Eric Stuve).
  • Xiang-Ning Li, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, July 6. BB I 444 Health Sciences. “Quantitative assessment of mitral regurgitation with three-dimensional doppler echocardiography.” (Prof. Roy Martin).
  • Gigi Annette Peterson, History, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 30. 306 Smith. “Grassroots good neighbors: The cross-border connections of the Mexican and U.S. labor-lefts.” (Prof. Carlos Gil).
  • John Kevin Varden, Linguistics, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 1. 110 Lewis Annex I. “Loss of speech rate effect of a ‘Fast Speech’ rule: High vowel devoicing in standard modern Japanese.” (Prof. Sharon Hargus).
  • Lang Wu, Statistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 1. C301 Padelford. “Lattice conditional independence models for incomplete multivariate data and for seemingly unrelated regressions.” (Prof. Michael Perlman).
  • Guifu Zhang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 2. 215C Electrical Engineering 1. “Detection and imaging of targets in the presence of clutter based on angular correlation function.” (Prof. Leung Tsang).


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    June 25, 1998