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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
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.
First Aid/CPR Certification: 12:304:30 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.
Office Ergonomics/Workstation Design: 9:3011 a.m. Tuesday, July 28, 268 Marine Studies.
A training schedule is also available at our website: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
Environmental Health and Safety
Other News
Study Subjects Wanted
The School of Nursing is seeking women with irritable bowel syndrome to participate in a research study. The study includes: a two hour gastric motility session involving: swallowing a pill-sized (oblong) magnet, measurement of heart rate through the use of a portable monitor and relaxing in a bed while your stomach contractions are measured by a compass placed on your belly. Midway through the session, you will drink a small cup of a tasty liquid meal and following the session remove the magnet by drawing it back into your mouth. To qualify, you must be 1845 years old; have regular menstrual periods; have no chronic illness (call if you are unsure); and be able to read and write English. Compensation, $60. Contact. Kathy Lustyk at 616-5168.
Blood Drive
Blood Drive, 10 a.m.4 p.m., Friday, July 17, Health Sciences lobby.
Blood Services
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 on-line at http://www.gifts.washington.edu. To order either publication, use the on-line request form or call Lauren Fortune, Donor Relations, at 685-1980.
Office of Development
Blood Pressure Screening
Have your blood pressure tested 11 a.m.1 p.m., on first Wednesdays of the month at the Faculty Club or 11 a.m.1 p.m. Fridays at Hall Health Primary Care Center.
Travel Services Available
The Hall Health Travel Clinic: UW 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 Examinations
Members of the Graduate Faculty are invited to attend the General and Final Examinations. Supervisory committee chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.
General Exams
Robin Sue Adams, Education, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 15. 36 Gerberding. (Prof. Craig ZumBrunnen).
Allison Denise Adin, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, July 10. T473 Health Sciences. (Prof. Francois Baneyx).
Jared Murray Baeten, Public Health and Community Medicine—Epidemiology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21. F348 Health Sciences. (Prof. Joan Kreiss).
Michelle Lee Chaisson, Pathology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 21. K076 Health Sciences. (Prof. Nelson Fausto).
Lucinda I-Hun Chen, Pathology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, July 10. C516 Health Sciences. (Prof. Karen Swisshelm).
Emer Dooley, Business Administration, Ph.D. noon Friday, July 10. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Gary Hansen).
David Charles Fullmer, Music, D.M.A. 10 a.m. Friday, July 17. 101 Music. (Prof. Timothy Salzman).
Gordon Lee Graff, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 16. 321 Roberts. (Prof. Fumio Ohuchi).
Jr-Tsung Huang, Economics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 20. 302 Savery. (Prof. Shelly Lundberg).
Jo-Lieh Hung, Education, Ed.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21. 122 Miller. (Prof. Theodore Kaltsounis).
Heidemarie Petry, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 22. T605 Health Sciences. (Prof. Margaret Dimond).
Trostur Torsteinsson, Geophysics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22. 154QRC/ATG. (Prof. Charles Raymond).
Paul Griffin Vahey, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 22. 339 New Chemistry. (Profs. Robert Synovec and William Zoller).
Final Exams
Gail R Ament, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 21. B202 Padelford. “The postcolonial Mayan scribe: Indigenous writers of Guatemala 19671997.” (Prof. Cynthia Steele).
Mark Aaron Biernbaum, Psychology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, July 20. 211 Guthrie. “Attachment style, defense mechanisms, sex, and psychopathological symptom severity: A self-organizational perspective.” (Prof. Gene Sackett).
Dale E Blum, Botany, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 21. 316 Hitchcock. “The role of red and blue light in leaf and cotyledon expansion.” (Prof. Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh).
Cheryl Kay Hart, Public Health and Community Medicine—Environmental Health, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 20. T473 Health Sciences. “Theory and evaluation of a new physiologic sampling pump.” (Prof. Michael Yost).
Renee A Irvin, Economics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 17. 302 Savery. “Ownership and quality in U.S. health care: Theory and quantitative analysis.” (Prof. Levis Kochin).
Laurie Tipton Johnson, Economics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 17. 302 Savery. “Perceptions of cost and distribution and the demand for environmental regulation.” (Prof. Gardner Brown).
Lee Karp-Boss, Oceanography, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 10. 123 Marine Sciences. “Phytoplankton-flow interaction in relation to cell size and morphology.” (Prof. Peter Jumars).
Jane Macoubrie, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 10. Conference Room, Raitt. “Decision logics in juries.” (Prof. Valerie Manusov).
Joan Louise Roth McCabe, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 21. 315 Guthrie. “Internal state language, attachment and social engagement in 4-year-old children.” (Prof. Philip Dale).
Izuru Mori, Mathematics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 15. C36 Padelford. “Some results on quantum projective planes.” (Prof. S. Paul Smith).
Richard Joseph Paxton, Education, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 16. 312 Miller. “The effects of a visible author on high school students solving historical problems.” (Prof. Samuel Wineburg).
Enming Joseph Su, Pathology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 20. K069 Health Sciences. “Role of Angiotensin II in regulating smooth muscle cell replication in the vessel wall.” (Prof. Stephen Schwartz).
Yvonne Sabine Unnold, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, July 23. B526 Padelford. “Representing the unrepresentable: Literature of trauma in Chile.” (Prof. Anthony Geist).
Rissa McCullough Wabaunsee, Education, Ed.D. 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 21. 26 Gerberding. “Accreditation, tribal governments and the development of governing boards at tribal colleges in Montana and Washington.” (Prof. Steven Olswang).
Brandon J. Whitcher, Statistics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16. 125 Thomson. “Assessing nonstationary time series using wavelets.” (Prof. Peter Guttorp).
Robert Jon Widrow, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2:15 p.m. Friday, July 10. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Very late DNA replication in fragile site induction and the human cell cycle.” (Prof. Charles Laird).
University Week
The faculty and staff publication of the University of Washington
uweek@u.washington.edu
July 9, 1998
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