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Meetings

Board of Regents
The UW Board of Regents meeting, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21, in the Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall, has been canceled.
Secretary of the Board

Classes

Computer Training
“Introduction to the World Wide Web and More,” 10 a.m.­noon Monday, Aug. 10, B-023 Communications, $5 reservation. Retirement Association, 543-8600.

Other News

Study Subjects Wanted
The School of Nursing is seeking women with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and healthy control women to participate in a research study. The study includes: a 2 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 are able to read and write English. Compensation, $60. Contact: Kathy Lustyk at 616-5168. Please mention the magnet study when you call.
School of Nursing

Blood Drives
Medical Center Blood Drives, 10 a.m.­1 p.m. and 1:45­4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7 and 14, Health Sciences Lobby; Red Square Blood Drive, 10 a.m.­4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, by flagpole between Kane and Parrington Halls.
Blood Services

Surplus Equipment
The following is available for interdepartmental transfer:

  • Set of nine modular file cases, each with 12 fully adjustable rotating shelves with foot pedal operation. Units measure 82" H x 31" W x 25" D, beige. Available for the cost of moving. For more information, contact Pam Luther at 3-8805.

    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.

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

    General Exams

  • Jon Paul Anderson, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17. K069 Health Sciences. (Prof. Leroy Hood).
  • Elizabeth Ann Babcock, Fisheries, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19. 288 Fisheries Center. (Prof. Ray Hilborn).
  • I-Cheng Robert Chiang, Business Administration, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20. 367 Mackenzie. (Prof. Vijay Mookerjee).
  • Chiun-Fang Chiou, Economics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17. 302 Savery. (Prof. Marcia Weaver).
  • Jeffrey David Garneau, Geography, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19. 409 Smith. (Prof. William Beyers).
  • Michael Lee Harrison, Mathematics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12. C36 Padelford. (Prof. Ralph Greenberg).
  • Mary Ann Kernic, Public Health and Community Medicine - Epidemiology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center. (Prof. Marsha Wolf).
  • Kristina M Liu, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. 122 Miller. (Prof. William Winn).
  • Eric Daniel Maloney, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19. 406 Atmospheric Science/Geophysics. (Prof. Dennis Hartmann).
  • Rebecca North Sliger, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. 259 Mechanical Engineering. (Prof. John Kramlich).
  • Kasara Sripichyakan, Nursing—School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. 513 Health Sciences. (Prof. Karen Schepp).
  • Kari Jeanne Tanta, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. EEU Conference Room. (Prof. Owen White).
  • Yeow-Chong Wu, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20. M230 Gowen. (Prof. David Knechtges).

    Final Exams

  • Rosalinda Helena Arends, Pharmacy—Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. K069 Health Sciences. “Pharmacokinetics and pharmcodynamics of opioid analgesics.” (Prof. Danny Shen).
  • Siva Ramachandran Athreya, Mathematics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 20. C401 Padelford. “Probability and semilinear partial differential equations.” (Prof. Krzysztof Burdzy).
  • Jeffrey P Brousal, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17. D209 Health Sciences. “Role of phosphorylation of the alpha one subunit in cAMP-dependent modulation of skeletal muscle calcium channels.” (Prof. William Catterall).
  • Patricia Louise Chastain, Education, Ph.D. 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. 201 Miller. “Implementing inquiry: Effects of the summer institute in physics for pre-college teachers.” (Prof. John Smith).
  • Casey Crump, Public Health and Community Medicine - Epidemiology, Ph.D. 03:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. 927C FHCRC, Met II. “The glutathione S-transferase theta 1 gene deletion and risk of acute myelocytic leukemia.” (Prof. Noel Weiss).
  • Timothy Paul Dittmer, Economics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. 302 Savery. “A property rights approach to antitrust.” (Prof. Keith Leffler).
  • Daniel Patrick Dolan, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. 205C Raitt. “The communal function of reciprocal personal experience storytelling.” (Prof. Gerry Philipsen).
  • Haijun Dong, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. 439 Chemistry. “Biosynthesis of validamycin A in streptomyces hygroscopicus var. limoneus.” (Prof. Heinz Floss).
  • Mark Hammergren, Astronomy, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “The composition of near earth objects.” (Prof. Donald Brownlee).
  • Diana Elizabeth Hess, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. 222 Miller. “Models of wisdom in teaching for discussion.” (Prof. Walter Parker).
  • Mark James Larson, Education, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14. 172 EEU. “The use of functional assessment and analysis to accelerate the social communication targets of children with severe multiple disabilities at home and school.” (Prof. Felix Billingsley).
  • Andrea Diane Lingenfelter, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. 109 Smith. “A marked category: Nine women of modern Chinese poetry, 1920­1997.” (Prof. Ching-Hsien Wang).
  • Soraya Madani, Pharmacy—Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14. K069 Health Sciences. “Comparative metabolic kinetics of hepatic and intestinal CYP2D6 and CYP3A: In vitro probe studies with metoprolol and terfenadine.” (Prof. Danny Shen).
  • Christina Manetti, History, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. 316A Smith. “Signs of the times: The Znak circle and Catholic intellectual engagement in Communist Poland, 1945­1976.” (Prof. James Felak).
  • Therese Frances Mar, Public Health and Community Medicine—Environmental Health, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14. T473 Health Sciences. “The effects of physical activity and gender on the toxicokinetics of toluene.” (Prof. David Kalman).
  • Christopher James Murray, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. 102T Miller. “Relationships with teachers and bonds with school: An examination of students with and without disabilities.” (Prof. Eugene Edgar).
  • John Brian Redell, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12. D209 Health Sciences. “Regulation of an inwardly rectifying potassium channel gene, IRK1.” (Prof. Bruce Tempel).
  • John Charles Roth, Mathematics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. C401 Padelford. “Perturbations of Kahler-Einstein metrics on strictly pseudo-convex domains.” (Prof. John Lee).
  • Kingshuk Roychoudhury, Statistics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17. 031 EE/CSE. “Additive mixture models for multichannel image data.” (Prof. Sean Finbarr O’Sullivan).
  • Angshuman Saha, Statistics, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 17. 031 EE/CSE. “Application of ridge regression for improved estimation of parameters in compartmental models.” (Prof. Sean Finbarr O’Sullivan).
  • Michael Leon Schrag, Pharmacy—Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20. K069 Health Sciences. “Development of chemical probes to define P450 active site residues.” (Prof. William Trager).
  • Robert Owen Self, History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. 320 Smith. “Shifting ground in metropolitan America: Class, race, and power in Oakland and the East Bay, 1945­1977.” (Prof. James Gregory).
  • Daming Shan, Biological Structure, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. T747 Health Sciences. “Apoptosis of malignant human B cells by ligation of CD20 with monoclonal antibodies.” (Prof. Oliver Press).
  • Brian Louis Sherrod, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. 154 Quaternary Research Center. “Abrupt submergence of lowland soils about 1000 years ago in southern Puget Sound, Washington.” (Prof. Estella Leopold).
  • Christopher Lyle Stork, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17. 102 Chemistry. “Monitoring chemical systems in the presence of process and analyzer variations.” (Prof. Bruce Kowalski).
  • Holly Lynn Storkel, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19. 1 Eagleson. “The influence of phonotactic probability & metacognition on fast mapping.” (Prof. Margaret Rogers).
  • Mei-Tzu Chen Tang, Public Health and Community Medicine - Epidemiology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19. 394 Met. Park East, FHCRC. “Induced abortion and risk of breast cancer.” (Prof. Noel Weiss).
  • Stefanie Wachter, Astronomy, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Optical/infrared constraints on the evolutionary states of low mass x-ray binary stars.” (Prof. Bruce Margon).
  • Kenneth Rolf Weingardt, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7. 120 Guthrie Annex III. “Identifying the ‘active ingredients’ of substance abuse treatment: Using structural equation modeling to test mediation hypotheses.” (Prof. G. Alan Marlatt).
  • David Christopher Wright, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14. C421 Physics/Astronomy. “Toward viable supersymmetric models.” (Prof. Ann Nelson).
  • Soichiro Yamamura, Public Health and Community Medicine - Pathobiology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. T733 Health Sciences. “Mechanism of physiological function of Sphingosine 1-phosphate: Extracellular action and demonstration of alleged receptor.” (Prof. Sen-itiroh Hakomori).
  • Xuri Yu, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14. 123 Marine Sciences. “Dynamics of seasonal and interannual variability in the equatorial Pacific.” (Prof. Michael McPhaden). ¶


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    August 6, 1998