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Board of Regents
The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 21, 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

Surplus Equipment

Lanier toner cartridge TN-38 for Lanier plain paper facsimile. Works with Model 3800 and perhaps others. Also have an operator’s manual. Call Diane or Bev at 543-8388.

Packard Auto-Gamma 5530 Gamma Counter for sale, $5,000 O.B.O. Writes data to 5 °-inch diskettes as well as to an Epson printer. Counts large bore vials one at a time. Multiple window settings may be selected and counted simultaneously. Departmental sales only. For more information, call Karen at 543-2472. Dept. of Anesthesiology

Degree Exams

General Examinations

  • David Andrew Biggs, History, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. M261 Smith. (Prof. Laurie Sears).
  • Patricia Ann Blissitt, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Friday, May 14. 605 HSC. (Prof. Pamela Mitchell).
  • Eduardo Enrique Chappa Leiva, Mathematics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 20. C401 Padelford. (Prof. Gunther Uhlmann).
  • Connie Young Chiang, History, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. 306 Smith. (Profs. Richard White and James Gregory).
  • Cynthia Davidson Cooper, Public Health and Community Medicine-Pathobiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. C 510A HSC. (Prof. Paul Lampe).
  • Derek Samuel Davidson, Drama, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, May 14. T478 HSC. (Prof. Sarah Bryant-Bertail).
  • Charles Alan Duba, Physics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, May 14. Nuclear Physics Lab Conference Room. (Prof. R.G. Hamish Robertson).
  • Andrea Alberta Geiger-Adams, History, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. 203E Smith. (Profs. Richard White and Suzanne Lebsock).
  • Roberta Susan Gold, History, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 17. 320 Smith. (Prof. Suzanne Lebsock).
  • Karsten Miklas Heeger, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. Conference Room, Nuclear Physics Laboratory. (Prof. R.G. Hamish Robertson).
  • William Francis Kemper, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 14. G417 HSC. (Prof. Kevin Conley).
  • Kerry Justin Kim, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. G417 HSC. (Prof. Frederick Rieke).
  • Laura Kathleen Larson, Communications, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 20. 126 Communications. (Prof. Anthony Chan).
  • Cara Ritchie Nelson, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 20. 105 Winkenwerder. (Prof. Charles Halpern).
  • Dominik Obrist, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 14. 317 Guggenheim. (Prof. Peter Schmid).
  • Jennifer Preisman, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, May 17. 222 Miller. (Prof. Nancy Beadie).
  • Helen May Schneider, History, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 17. 320 Smith. (Prof. R. Kent Guy).
  • Jaidev Singh, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 20. 22 Anderson. (Prof. J. Alan Wagar).
  • Gregory Laird Snow, Public Health and Community Medicine-Biostatistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 17. F643 HSC. (Prof. Richard Kronmal).
  • Margaret Mary Stackpoole, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 17. 321 Roberts. (Prof. Rajendra Bordia).
  • Susan Ann Stoner, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 14. 211 Guthrie. (Prof. William George).
  • Blas Pedro Uberuaga, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. 319 Bagley. (Prof. Hannes Jonsson).
  • Mark Philip Weitzenkamp, Drama, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 14. T478 HSC. (Prof. Barry Witham).

    Final Examinations

  • Brian Lee Browning, Mathematics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 20. C36 Padelford. “Time and frequency domain scattering for the one-dimensional wave equation.” (Prof. John Sylvester).
  • Catherine Louise Connon, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, May 18. T513 HSC. “Health care practitioners’ knowledge of pesticide-related illness and treatment.” (Prof. Mary Salazar).
  • Khanh Thi Dinh, Psychology, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 14. 211 Guthrie. “Predictors of psychosocial well-being in an Asian American sample: Acculturation, intergenerational conflict, and parent-child relationships.” (Prof. Irwin Sarason).
  • Andrew Eugene Dolphin, Astronomy, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. B356 Physics/Astronomy. “Reconstruction of star formation histories of resolved stellar populations.” (Prof. Paul Hodge).
  • Michael Jeffrey Drinen, Mathematics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, May 20. 309 Smith. “Iwasawa mu-invariants of Selmer groups.” (Prof. Ralph Greenberg).
  • Debra Anne Fogarty, Economics, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 19. 302 Savery. “Determinants of fertility in Tanzania.” (Prof. Anil Deolalikar).
  • Sarah Hinckley, Fisheries, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. 201 Fisheries Center. “Biophysical mechanisms underlying the recruitment process in Walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma).” (Prof. Robert Francis).
  • Evelyn Sue Johnson, Education, Ed.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. 102 Miller. “Effects of accomodations on large-scale performance assessments.” (Prof. Eugene Edgar).
  • Sara Nan-Soon Kim, Education, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 14. 122 Miller. “The role of visual concept acquisition, outcome measure, and interface design in the evaluation of a computer-based multimedia tutorial, urinalysis tutor TM.” (Prof. William Winn).
  • Tilar Jenon Mazzeo, English, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. A106 Padelford. “Producing the romantic ‘Literary’: Travel writing, plagiarism, and the Shelley/Byron circle.” (Prof. Hazard Adams).
  • Peter Birger Nelson, Geography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. Starlight Room, 4th floor Smith. “Hegemony and the rural: Economic and cultural dimensions of rural restructuring in the 1990s.” (Prof. William Beyers).
  • Paul E. Rosenfeld, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 14. 22 Anderson. “Characterization, quantification, and control of odor emissions from biosolids application to forest soil.” (Prof. Charles Henry).
  • Clifford Edward Solomon, Education, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, May 17. D209 HSC. “Evaluation of spatial abilities in anatomy.” (Prof. William Winn).
  • Caren Diana Tidwell, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, May 17. K069 HSC. “Endothelial cell interactions with model surfaces: Effect of surface chemistry, surface mobility, and the adsorbed protein layer.” (Prof. Buddy Ratner).
  • Brian C. Tietje, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 14. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. “Promotional enhancement theory: A model for designing promotional rewards that enhance brand equity.” (Prof. Richard Yalch).
  • Erik Brian Villard, History, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. 320 Smith. “Camp Lewis, 1917-1919: Progressivism, patriotism, and the first world war.” (Prof. Wilton Fowler).
  • Nancy Carolyn Vizenor, Nutritional Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. 305D Raitt. “Development and evaluation of the cancer and cardiovascular disease health belief scale and the use of the health belief scale in determining the adoption of a lowfat dietary pattern.” (Prof. Carrie Cheney). ¶


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    May 13, 1999