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Meetings
Board of Regents
The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. March 19, 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
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents’ strategic planning and academic and student affairs committees meet for a presentation on The University of Washington’s Roles and Responses. Featured speakers include State Superintendent of Pubic Instruction Terry Bergeson, local school and community leaders, and UW education and computer science professors, 8 a.m. to noon, March 18, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall.
Classes
Environmental Health and Safety
Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following free safety classes to University personnel. Pre-registration is required. Call 543-7201 to register, for departmental training, or to be added to the mailing list.
Laboratory Safety System (LSS) Training: 9:30-11 a.m., March 17, Computer Resource Ctr., OUGL.
Respiratory Protection and Mask-fitting: 9:30-11 a.m., March 23, Hall Health 301B. (Health questionnaire must be completed and submitted before training).
Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): 9 a.m.-noon, March 24, 38 Social Work.
Basic First Aid and CPR:
12:30-4:30 p.m., March 24 and 26, Social Work 38. (Attendance at both classes is mandatory).
A training schedule is also available on the EH&S website: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
Urban Horticulture
Pre-registration is required for all of these classes. Call 685-8033 for information.
Divisions & Root Cuttings, 7-9 p.m., March 11, $18.
Pruning Shrubs, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., March 13, $28, Center for Urban Horticulture.
Arboretum Plant Study Program, Sec. C, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., March 20, $20.
Perennial Borders, 9 a.m.-noon, March 27, $30.
Other
Public Auction of UW Surplus
Surplus property and equipment released by UW departments will be available for purchase by the general public Saturday, March 20, at a silent auction. Bidding will begin at 10 a.m. Buyers can preview items Friday, March 19, from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m., and the day of the auction from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. All bidders must be registered before the bidding starts. Registration can be done during the preview hours. All items must be paid for in cash and by 1:30 p.m. the day of auction. All purchased items must be removed by 3 p.m. on Monday, March 22. Items available for sale include computers, printers, desks, file cabinets, and chairs. A complete catalog will be available at time of registration. The surplus warehouse is located below the University Police at 1117 NE Boat Street. Parking is available along Boat Street and in the West Campus parking garage at no charge to customers on the day of the sale. Call 685-1573 for more information, or e-mail at surplus2@u.washington.edu.
Married Couples Sought
The Family Formation Project at the University of Washington is seeking an ethnically diverse sample of married couples to participate in our study of communication and health. We are recruiting couples where at least one person is Asian or Pacific Islander. Married couples have the potential to earn up to $200. All information will remain confidential and will be seen only by the research staff associated with the project. Call the Family Formation Project at (206) 543-8089. Leave your name and phone number and our staff will contact you.
Degree Exams
General Examinations
Rolf Erhart Aalto, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 5. 311 Johnson. (Prof. Thomas Dunne).
Michael Scott Bittner, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. 112A Miller. (Prof. Theodore Kaltsounis).
David S. Gerson, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 10. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Marilyn Gist).
Kim Marie Korinek, Sociology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 10. 110C Savery. (Prof. Charles Hirschman).
Vatchara Lertpiriyasuwat, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 219A Mechanical Engineering. (Prof. Martin Berg).
Gregory Kirk Ridgeway, Statistics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11. 325 Thomson. (Profs. David Madigan and Thomas Richardson).
Anne Grethe Sabo, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, March 5. B526 Padelford. (Prof. Gary Handwerk).
Vesna Savic, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 11. 259 Mechanical Engineering. (Prof. Mark Tuttle).
Jennifer Seltz, History, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 5. 306 Smith. (Profs. Suzanne Lebsock and Richard White).
Wendy Jane Shaw, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. 439 Chemistry. (Prof. Gary Drobny).
Michael J. Witgen, History, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 5. 306 Smith. (Prof. Richard Johnson and Richard White).
Billy Ray Woodall, Education, Ph.D. 11:45 a.m. Friday, March 5. 222 Miller. (Prof. Nancy Hansen-Krening).
Final Examinations
Elizabeth Faye Barnett, Education, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, March 5. 112A Miller. “Student learning in a community college multicultural course.” (Prof. James Banks).
Michelle Catherine Catlin, Public Health and Community Medicine—Environmental Health, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, March 8. T435 HSC. “Effects of ethanol on muscarinic—induced responses in astroglia.” (Prof. Lucio Costa).
Darren Charles Cronquist, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. 403 EE1. “Reconfigurable pipelined datapaths.” (Prof. Carl Ebeling).
John Patrick Dunne, Oceanography, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 5. 123 Marine Sciences. “Measured and modeled particle export in equatorial and coastal upwelling regions.” (Prof. James Murray).
Clea Therese Finkle, Political Science, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 40 Smith. “State, power, and policing in colonial North India.” (Prof. Paul Brass).
April Ann Gerlock, Nursing, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, March 5. T513 HSC. “Comparison and prediction of completers and non-completers of a domestic violence program.” (Prof. Patricia Betrus).
Charles R. Griffin, Education, Ed.D. 12 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. 112A Miller. “The changing role and responsibilities of the independent school headmaster.” (Prof. Kenneth Ostrander).
Ibrahim M. Hallaj, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, March 11. 303 EE/CSE. “Nonlinear acoustics in underwater and biomedical applications: Array performance degradation and time reversal invariance.” (Prof. Robert Porter).
Laura Dawn Hathaway, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 10. 222 Miller. “Differential learning of physics according to gender.” (Prof. Francis Hunkins).
Giorgi Khazaradze, Geophysics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, March 8. 154 ATG/QRC. “Tectonic deformation rates in western Washington from global positioning system measurements.” (Prof. Anthony Qamar).
Gregory Mitchell Lee, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, March 11. 102 Chemistry. “Solution-state conformational studies of endothelin analogs.” (Prof. Niels Andersen).
Wan-Fen Li, Public Health and Community Medicine—Environmental Health, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, March 5. RR134 HSC. “Development of a mouse model to study the role of paraoxonase (PON1) in organophosphate detoxication.” (Prof. Lucio Costa).
Kirsten Ruth Lorentzen, Geophysics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, March 11. 154 ATG/QRC. “Precipitation of relativistic electrons on the duskside.” (Prof. Michael McCarthy).
Scott Lybarger, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. 205 Raitt. “Metaphors and media law: Conceptualizations of computer-mediated communication in ACLU v. Reno, Shea v. Reno, and Reno v. ACLU.” (Prof. Haig Bosmajian).
Peter Tsakani Manyike, Pharmacy—Pharmaceutics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, March 8. K069 HSC. “CYP2E1: Mechanism of induction by isoniazid and role in acetaminophen oxidation.” (Prof. John Slattery).
Jennifer A. McLerran, Art History, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11. 311 Art. “Inventing ‘Indian Art:’ New Deal Indian policy and the native artist as ‘natural’ resource.” (Prof. Patricia Failing).
Rie Nakamura, Anthropology, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. M32A Denny. “Cham in Vietnam: A study of ethnicity.” (Prof. Stevan Harrell).
Sharon E. Parkman, Nursing, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, March 5. T305 HSC. “The infant undergoing cardiac surgery: Can we predict length of stay and presence of complications from age, weight, diagnoses and type of surgery.” (Prof. Susan Woods).
Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 8. 22 Anderson. “Human impact on high altitude forest structures in the Nangpa and Hinku Valleys, Sagarmatha and Makalu-Barun National parks, Solukhumbu, Nepal.” (Prof. Chadwick Oliver).
Rolf Erik Sonnerup, Oceanography, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, March 5. 123 Marine Sciences. “Reconstructing the oceanic 13c Suess effect.” (Prof. Paul Quay).
Changhong Wang, Public Health and Community Medicine—Environmental Health, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 229 Roosevelt. “Identification of hepatic glutathione S-transferase(s) involved in aflatoxin B1-8, 9-epoxide conjugating activity in the non-human primate Macaca fiscicularis.” (Prof. David Eaton).
Jane M. Wolz, Education, Ph.D. 12 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 222 Miller. “Reading recovery and a developmental approach to phonological processing.” (Prof. Richard Neel). ¶
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March, 11, 1999
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