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Classes
Safety Classes
Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following free safety classes to University personnel. Pre-registration is required; call 543-7201. Call also for departmental training or to be added to the mailing list.
Compressed Gas Safety Training; 9:30?10:30 a.m., Jan 28, 301B Hall Health.
Forklift Truck Operator Safety; 8:30?11:30 a.m., Feb 2, I-140 HSC Drive Test scheduled separately.
Laboratory Fire Safety Training; 9:30?11 a.m., Feb 4, T-625 HSC.
Shipping and Transporting Hazardous Materials; 12?4 p.m., Feb 11, Hall Health 301 B.
Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control; 1:30?2:30 p.m., Feb 11, T-530 HSC.
Fall Protection; 1:30?3 p.m., Feb 11, 106 Fisheries Teaching and Research Bldg.
Health Sciences Center Floor Warden/Evacuation Training; 2:30-3:30 p.m., Feb. 24, T-625 HSC.
A training schedule is also available on the EH&S website: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
Training and Development
Training and Development will offer the following classes soon. For further information, call 543-1957.
Managing and Motivating Student and Hourly Staff, 8:30?11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 29.
Survey Design and Results Analysis, 1?5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday, Feb. 1 and 3.
Better Business Writing, 8:30?11:30 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, Feb. 2, 4, 9, 11.
Delegating, 9:30?11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, Feb. 2, 9.
Improving your Vocabulary, 2:30? 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24.
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 bical@u.washington.edu. The information is also available via UWIN and UW Libraries Home Page at http://www.lib.washington.edu/training.htm.
Urban Horticulture
Preregistration is required for all of these classes. Call (206) 685-8033 for information.
Arboretum Plant Study Program, Sec. A, 9 a.m.?12:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6, $20.
Pressed Flower Valentines, 2?4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7, $1 per card.
Other
Diabetes Research Study
The UW is seeking volunteers aged 30 to 75 with diabetes for a study testing the potential of a new diabetes medication. Volunteers must not be taking any medication for diabetes. The study will involve seven clinic visits during a three-month period. Subjects will receive free physical examinations and lab tests and be compensated for their time. For more information, call Monica at (206) 768-5272.
Blood Drive
Student Blood Drive, 10 a.m.?4 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29, 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
James Garnet Droppo, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb 2, 403 EE/CSE. (Prof. Les Atlas).
Heather Colburn Edberg, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m., Wednesday, Feb 3, 134 Chemistry Library. (Prof. Richard Gammon).
Kirati Laisathit, Business Administration, Ph.D. 2 p.m., Tuesday, Feb 2, McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Alan Hess).
Robert Edward Mitchell, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m., Friday, Jan 29, B526 Padelford. (Prof. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen).
Gabriel A. Vecchi, Oceanography, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb 3, 123 Marine Sciences. (Prof. Don Harrison).
Final Examinations
Andrew Philip Berman, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, 422 Sieg. “Efficient content-based retrieval of images using triangle-inequality-based algorithms.” (Prof. Linda Shapiro).
Michael Dace Caufield, English, Ph.D. 10 a.m., Friday, Jan 29, A106 Padelford. “Let there be life: Notes toward a philosophy of art in the works of D.H. Lawrence and Wallace Stevens.” (Prof. Hazard Adams).
Kurt Marshall Cuffey, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m., Monday, Feb 1, 154 Quaternary Research Center. “Glaciological investigations beneath an active polar glacier.” (Prof. Bernard Hallet).
Kristin Lynn Fitzpatrick, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 12 p.m., Monday, Feb 1, B526 Padelford. “What she carries with her: Gender and American national identity in nineteenth-century women’s travel narratives.” (Prof. Gary Handwerk).
Jason Se-Yung Kuo, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb 4, 102 Architecture. “Surface investigations of the atomic layer growth mechanism in aluminum nitride thin film deposition using dimethylethylamine alane and ammonia.” (Prof. James Rogers). ¶
University Week
The faculty and staff publication of the University of Washington
uweek@u.washington.edu
January 28, 1999
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