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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. The Regents will meet at 1:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18 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
Weight Management
“Your Path to a Healthy Body Weight”, the weight management course sponsored by UWMC-Roosevelt and the Nutrition Clinic, is being offered again this fall. The cost for the eight session course is $50. Classes at UWMC-Roosevelt are offered to employees and UWMC patients from 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Sept. 15 and 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays beginning
Sept. 16. To register, call the Family Medicine Clinic at 548-4055.
Driver Training
“55-Alive Mature Driving Course,”
10 a.m.noon, 13 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 16 and 17, 21 Architecture, $8 reservation. Retirement Association, 543-8600.
Safety Classes
Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following classes to University personnel free. Pre-registration is required; call 543-7201.
Fall Protection: 1:303 p.m. Aug. 25, 301 Hall Health.
Shipping and Transporting Hazardous Materials: 12:304:30 p.m. Aug. 26, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.
Back Protection Program: 9:30
11 a.m. Aug. 27, 218 Loew.
Forklift Safety Refresher Training: 9:3011 a.m. Sept. 1, T-474 HSC.
Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control: 9:3010:30 a.m. Sept. 2,
T-473, HSC.
Laboratory Safety System: 1:303 p.m. Sept. 8, Undergraduate Library, 1st Floor, Collab II.
Managing Laboratory Chemicals and Spill Clean-up: 9:3011:30 a.m., Sept. 9, T-473 HSC.
Earthquake/Disaster Preparedness: 9:3011 a.m. Sept. 10, Historic Fire House 2nd Floor Conference Room, Harborview.
Basic First Aid/CPR Training: 8 hours, 12:304:30 p.m. Tuesday/Thursday, Sept. 15 & 17, B-14 Social Work.
Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), 14 p.m. Sept. 18, Dining room C, Ground Level, Harborview.
A training schedule is also available on the EH&S website: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
Environmental Health and Safety
Other News
International Travel
The Hall Health Travel Clinic at Hall Health Primary Care Center on upper campus is ready to help you have a safe and productive international 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.
Hall Health
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 William Hunter, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 14. G417 Health Sciences. (Prof. Linda Wordeman).
Jonathan Michael Lilly, Oceanography, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. 123 Marine Sciences. (Prof. Peter Rhines).
Shuang Meng, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Marjorie Olmstead).
John Christopher Oakley, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22. G417 Health Sciences. (Prof. Wayne Crill).
Sungjoon Oh, Economics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 21. 302 Savery. (Prof. Keith Leffler).
Final Exams
Vicka Rael Corey, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24. 211 Guthrie. “The electrophysiological difference between nouns and verbs.” (Prof. Lee Osterhout).
Allison Dawn Geiselbrecht, Microbiology, Ph.D.
3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26. T747 Health Sciences. “The distribution and PAH-degradative potential of cycloclasticus spp. in the marine environment.” (Prof. James Staley).
John Patrick Gibbs II, Pharmacy—Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2. K069 Health Sciences. “Age-dependent busulfan disposition and its relation to GSTA1-1 expression.” (Prof. John Slattery).
Peter A Gurevich, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26. 130 Aerospace and Engineering Research. “Interaction of an accelerated FRC in a transverse magnetic field.” (Prof. Alan Hoffman).
Laura Charlotte Kempen, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11. B526 Padelford. “Words of deliverance: The (Re) constitution of the disenfranchised feminine subject in selected works of West African and Latin American women writers.” (Prof. Cynthia Steele).
Zhongtai Leng, Public Health and Community Medicine - Pathobiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. K069 Health Sciences. “Distribution and mobility of antibiotic resistance genes in oral and urogenital bacteria.” (Prof. Marilyn Roberts).
Francois Bertrand Lepeintre, Physics, Ph.D.
10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 31. C421 Physics/Astronomy. “Supersymmetric models of flavor.” (Prof. David Kaplan).
Jeffery Daniel Musiak, Geophysics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25. 310C Atmospheric Science/Geophysics. “Three-dimensional circulation dynamics of along-channel flow in stratified estuaries.” (Prof. David Jay).
Frederick R Stahr, Oceanography, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26. 123 Marine Sciences. “Transport and bottom boundary layer observations of the North Atlantic deep western boundary current at the Blake Outer Ridge.” (Prof. Thomas Sanford).
Claudia Michele Thompson, History, Ph.D.
11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 21. 320 Smith. “A negotiated dichotomy: Vietnamese medicine and the intersection of Vietnamese acceptance of and resistance to Chinese cultural influence.” (Prof. Laurie Sears).
Cornelia Maren Ulrich, Public Health and Community Medicine—Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26. 927B/C, Met II, FHCRC. “Common polymorphisms in metabolizing enzymes—some implications for colon cancer etiology, prevention, and genetic testing.” (Prof. Stephen Schwartz).
University Week
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August 20, 1998
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