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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, Dec. 11, in the Walker-Ames Room of Kane 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

Al Anon
AlAnon Open Meeting for friends and families of alcoholics, 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays in 217 Loew.

Classes

Library Computer Classes
The UW Libraries provide computer training in subjects ranging from introductory classes such as “Finding Articles” and “Catalog Overview” to specialized classes in Engineering and Life Sciences “Database” search techniques. The classes are free and attendance is limited to UW students, faculty and staff unless noted.

To request a copy of the UW Library Computer Classes brochure, contact the OUGL Secretary at 685-3752 or e-mail bial@u.washington.edu. The information is also available via UWIN and UW Libraries Home Page at http://www.lib.washington.edu/training.htm.

Training and Development
For further information, call 543-1957.

Designing Effective Written Documents, 8:30­noon, Wednesday, Dec. 9.

Getting the Zoo out of Project Management, 8:30 a.m.­5 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Dec. 10 and 11.

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

Managing Laboratory Chemicals and Spill Clean-up, 1:30­3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 8, BB-1602 Health Sciences Center.

HazCom: Train-the-Trainer, 8:30 a.m.­12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec.. 9, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), 1­4 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 15, HUB 310.

Shipping and Transporting Hazardous Materials, 8:30 a.m.­12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 16, Personnel Conference Room 16, Harborview.

A training schedule is also available on the EH&S website: http://www.ehs.washington.edu

Other News

Travel Immunizations
Hall Health Primary Care Center appointments: 616-1186 (Note new phone number). Information: 685-1060 (voice mail) or travel@u.washington.edu.

Blood Drives
School of Medicine Blood Drive, 10 a.m.­12:30 p.m. and 1:15­4 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, Health Sciences Lobby.

Student Blood Drive, 10 a.m.­4 p.m., Friday, Dec 11, HUB.

Degree Exams

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

General Examinations

  • Britt Katherine Anderson, Psychology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, Dec 7. 120 Guthrie Annex III. (Prof. Mary Larimer).
  • Deirdre Mary Bowen, Sociology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Dec 7. 110 Savery. (Prof. Joseph Weis).
  • Wei-Chun Chin, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec 10. 322 Harris. (Prof. Pedro Verdugo).
  • Bradley Justin Davidson, Zoology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, Dec 4. A023D Kincaid Annex. (Prof. William Moody).
  • Ann Elizabeth Edwards, Zoology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec 8. 502 Kincaid. (Prof. P. Dee Boersma).
  • Su-Ying Liang, Economics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec 10. 302 Savery. (Prof. Keith Leffler).
  • Corrine Kay Lutz, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec 10. 120 Guthrie Annex III. (Prof. Joan Lockard).
  • Kimberly Irene Matulef, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec 10. T-466K (MCB Conference Room) Health Sciences. (Prof. William Zagotta).
  • Christopher David Meiering, Microbiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec 8. C2M-015 FHCRC. (Prof. Maxine Linial).
  • Deborah Susan Mellott, Psychology, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 315 Guthrie. (Prof. Anthony Greenwald).
  • Emory P Morrison, Sociology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 110C Savery. (Prof. Edgar Kiser).
  • James Shannon Peet, Geography, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec 10. 409 Smith. (Prof. Timothy Nyerges).
  • Leslie Denise Pinnel, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 12 p.m. Monday, Dec 7. 422 Sieg. (Prof. Nancy Leveson).
  • Jeongnam Youn, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 303 EE/CSE. (Prof. Ming-Ting Sun).

    Final Examinations

  • Bradley Scott Ambrose, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. C211 Physics/Astronomy. “Investigation of student understanding of the wave-like properties of light and matter.” (Prof. Lillian McDermott).
  • Karen Marie Anderson, Political Science, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec 10. 40 Smith. “The welfare state in the global economy. The politics of social insurance retrenchment in Sweden.” (Prof. John Keeler).
  • Elizabeth Ann Babcock, Fisheries, Ph.D. 10:45 a.m. Monday, Dec 7. 288 Fisheries Center. “Dynamic programming models of fishermen’s choice of target species assemblage in the U.S. west coast groundfish trawl fishery.” (Profs. Ray Hilborn and Ellen Pikitch).
  • Bernhard Beck-Winchatz, Astronomy, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec 8. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “A morphological and multicolor survey for faint quasars.” (Prof. Scott Anderson).
  • Jodi Louise Carson, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Friday, Dec 4. 119 More. “The effect of ice warning signs on ice accident frequencies and severities: An investigation using advanced econometric modeling methods.” (Profs. Fred Mannering and Joe Mahoney).
  • Mark C Cutler, Business Administration, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Dec 7. 208 Lewis. “A study of scheduling operations with preemptive jobs and global system interruptions.” (Prof. Theodore Klastorin).
  • Creg Burns Darby, Genetics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec 4. J280 Health Sciences. “Paralysis of Caenorhabditis elegans by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A genetically tractable model for bacterial pathogenesis.” (Prof. Colin Manoil).
  • Kelly Layne Cue Davis, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 120 Guthrie Annex I. “Women’s perceptions of and responses to sexual aggression: The alcohol myopia and anxiolysis-disinhibition theories.” (Prof. William George).
  • Susan Rachel Gragg, Sociology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec 4. 110C Savery. “Maxing out” and “getting deeked”: Formal and informal work organizations among rental car agents in Seattle, Washington.” (Prof. Howard Becker).
  • Catherine Ellsworth Grubin, Immunology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec 8. T739 Health Sciences. “A critical role for peptides in positive selection of MHC Class II restricted CD4+ T cells.” (Prof. Alexander Rudensky).
  • Hilairy Ellen Hartnett, Oceanography, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 123 Marine Science. “Organic carbon degradation and preservation in continental margin sediments.” (Prof. Allan Devol).
  • Rachel Holmes-Davis, Botany, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Dec 7. T625 Health Sciences. “The effects of matrix attachment regions on transgene expression in arabidopsis.” (Prof. Luca Comai).
  • Jr-Tsung Huang, Economics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Dec 7. 314 Denny. “Three essays on marital births and taxes.” (Prof. Shelly Lundberg).
  • Lara Diane Hutson, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. K069 Health Sciences. “Xenopus p75NTR: Molecular cloning and functional analysis during the early phase of cell death in developing retina.” (Prof. Mark Bothwell).
  • David Jon Kay, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 164 Johnson. “Mixing p rocesses in a highly stratified tidal flow.” (Prof. David Jay).
  • Tim D Pinkerton, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec 4. 021 Architecture. “Fundamental studies of the effect of electric fields on water-surface chemistry.” (Prof. Eric Stuve).
  • Anna Victorovna Poiarkova, Physics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, Dec 4. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “X-ray absorption fine structure Debye-Waller factors.” (Prof. John Rehr).
  • Barbara Lynne Rodriguez, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec 9. 30 Social Work. “A comparative study of mainstream and Mexican-American mothers’ beliefs regarding child-rearing, education, disability, and language impairment.” (Prof. Lesley Olswang).
  • Lisa Lynn Sharp, Education, Ed.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec 10. M210 Miller. “Education reform in Washington state 1988-1997 through the eyes of one district, one school.” (Prof. Jerry Bamburg).
  • Amy Katherine Snover, Chemistry, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec 8. 123 Marine Science. “The hydrogen stable isotopic composition of atmospheric methane.” (Profs. Paul Quay and Richard Gammon).
  • Hui Su, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, Dec 4. 64 Johnson. “A modeling study of ‘self-aggregation’ and ‘large-scale’ control of tropical deep convection.” (Profs. Chris Bretherton & Dennis Hartmann). ¶


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    December 3, 1998