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Meetings

Board of Regents

The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 11, in the Tacoma Room on the UW Tacoma campus. 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

Other

Blood Drives

South Campus Blood Drive, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:45-4 p.m., Friday, June 11, Health Sciences Lobby.

Exams

General Examinations

  • Justine Isabel Barda, English, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 8. A106 Padelford. (Prof. Susan Jeffords).
  • Bret Franklin Battey, Music, D.M.A. 1 p.m. Thursday, June 10. 28A Music. (Prof. Richard Karpen).
  • Anne Wilson Bloom, Political Science, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 11. 40 Smith. (Prof. Stuart Scheingold).
  • Florentina Bunea, Statistics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 11. 334 Thomson. (Prof. Jon Wellner).
  • Yuqing Cao, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 7. B526 Padelford. (Prof. Diana Behler).
  • Hung Chang, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, June 4. G417 HSC. (Prof. Michael Hlastala).
  • Jung-Chen Chang, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 15. T404 HSC. (Prof. Karen Schepp).
  • Shu-Yueh Chen, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, June 4. T513 HSC. (Prof. Karen Schepp).
  • So-Min Cheong, Geography, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 10. 409 Smith. (Prof. James Harrington).
  • Janine Kay Gwen Chi, Sociology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 7. 110C Savery. (Prof. Gary Hamilton).
  • Aik Chindapol, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, June 4. 215C EE/CSE. (Prof. James Ritcey).
  • Hugo A. Concha, Political Science, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. 40 Smith. (Prof. Stuart Scheingold).
  • Jeffrey Gene Cooper, Music, D.M.A. 10 a.m. Thursday, June 10. Fishbowl, Music. (Prof. Abraham Kaplan).
  • Sallie E. Davis Kirsch, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, June 11. T 652A HSC. (Prof. Diane Magyary).
  • Michael Laing Deftos, Immunology, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, June 15. H562 HSC. (Prof. Michael Bevan).
  • George S. Erving, English, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, June 11. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Alan Fisher).
  • Michael A. Etnier, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 10. 406 Denny. (Prof. Donald Grayson).
  • Edwin Ewald Forster, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, June 11. 206D Guggenheim. (Prof. Eli Livne).
  • Garth Allan Fowler, Psychology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, June 21. 315 Guthrie. (Prof. Jaime Olavarria).
  • Debashis Ghosh, Public Health and Community Medicine-Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 11. F643 HSC. (Prof. Danyu Lin).
  • Matthew Charles Gibson, Zoology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 7. A023D Kincaid Basement. (Prof. Gerold Schubiger).
  • Rainer Heller, Geophysics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 8. 164 Johnson. (Prof. Ronald Merrill).
  • Cynthia Michalski Horne, Political Science, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 7. 40 Smith. (Prof. Margaret Levi).
  • Timothy Stephen Hughes, Music, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 7. 212 Music. (Prof. Jonathan Bernard).
  • Aniko Imre, English, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, June 7. A106 Padelford. (Prof. Priscilla Wald).
  • Sana Jirji Karam, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 22. G417 HSC. (Prof. Mark Bothwell).
  • Christine Marie Keating, Political Science, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, June 14. 40 Smith. (Prof. Paul Brass).
  • Soohee Kim, Linguistics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 10. 215 Thomson. (Profs. Sharon Hargus and Richard Wright).
  • Ned Charles Kirk, Music, D.M.A. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. 101 Music. (Prof. Craig Sheppard).
  • Kimberly Kay Lamm, English, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, June 10. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Priscilla Wald).
  • Chien-Chi Lin, Music, D.M.A. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. Fishbowl, Music. (Prof. Peter Eros).
  • Jing Liu, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 7. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Sandra Silberstein).
  • Christina Lui, Political Science, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jun 11. M261 Smith. (Prof. Karen Litfin).
  • Jodi Margaret Lundgren, English, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Carolyn Allen).
  • Bret Powell Mackay, Economics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. 313 Savery. (Prof. Carolyn Madden).
  • Karsten James McCollam, Physics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 7. AERB conference room. (Prof. Thomas Jarboe).
  • Larin Rae McLaughlin, English, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, June 4. A101 Padelford. (Prof. Susan Jeffords).
  • Yann Merrand, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 9. 154 Quaternary Research Center. (Prof. Bernard Hallet).
  • Linda R. Moorhouse, Music, D.M.A. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 9. 101 Music. (Prof. Timothy Salzman).
  • Alexander Maria Schlutz, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 10:15 a.m. Thursday, June 10. B526 Padelford. (Prof. Raimonda Modiano).
  • Tatjana Milan Serdar, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. 403 EE/CSE. (Prof. Carl Sechen).
  • Donald Brad Sherman, Music, D.M.A. 11 a.m. Thursday, June 10. 27 Music. (Prof. Richard Karpen).
  • Linda Sue Smith, Music, D.M.A. 12:30 p.m. Monday, June 7. Fishbowl, Music. (Prof. Bela Siki).
  • Joong-Yeol Son, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 16. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Profs. Theodore Klastorin & Kamran Moinzadeh).
  • Jinmin Song, Music, D.M.A. 3 p.m. Monday, June 7. Fishbowl, Music. (Prof. Robin McCabe).
  • Ellen Lee Timothy, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, June 7. 112A Miller. (Profs. Donna Kerr and Deborah Kerdeman).
  • Kim D. Van Eyck, Geography, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 7. 409 Smith. (Prof. Victoria Lawson).
  • Junwen Wang, Fisheries, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 8. 168 Marine Sciences. (Prof. George Pigott).
  • Jacob Andreas Wegelin, Statistics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 23. 307 Balmer. (Profs. Paul Sampson and Thomas Richardson).
  • Cheryl Elin Wickham, Economics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 9. 209 Savery. (Prof. Carolyn Madden).

    Final Examinations

  • Kagan Arik, Near and Middle Eastern Studies Group, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 9. 215 Denny. “Shamanism, culture and the Xinjiang Kazak: A native narrative of identity.” (Prof. Ilse Cirtautas).
  • Andrew Walsh Bartlett, Special Individual Ph.D. Program, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, June 4. A520 Padelford. “The free place: African American.” (Prof. Johnnella Butler).
  • Liza Elizabeth Black, History, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. 320 Smith. “Picturing Indians: American Indians in movies, 1941-1960.” (Prof. Richard White).
  • Sharon Ruth Browning, Statistics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 18. 325 Thomson. “Monte Carlo likelihood calculation for identity by descent data.” (Prof. Elizabeth Thompson).
  • William Ridgeway Carpenter, English, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Monday, June 7. B110G Padelford. “Lyrical thematics in Faulkner’s Light in August.” (Prof. Leroy Searle).
  • Timothy Stewart Chapin, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday, June 10. 26 Gerberding. “Urban revitalization tools: Assessing the impacts of sports stadia at the microarea level.” (Prof. Richard Morrill).
  • Hueifang Chen, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. T404 HSC. “Family caregiving for Chinese American elderly: A grounded theory study.’ (Prof. Frances Lewis).
  • Sinan S. Demirel, Sociology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. 110C Savery. “ ‘We’re not activists: Political organizing among Seattle’s homeless population.” (Prof. Howard Becker).
  • Dorothea Maria Eberz-Wagner, Mathematics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10. C36 Padelford. “Discrete growth models.” (Prof. Krzysztof Burdzy).
  • Ellen Morris Evans, English, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, June 7. A106 Padelford. “Back to nature: Location, identity, and ‘naturalization’.” (Prof. Priscilla Wald).
  • Karen Rose Fitch, Genetics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, June 7. J280 HSC. “Genetic and phenotypic characterization of ms(3)sneaky and other paternal effect genes required for sperm function during fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster.” (Prof. Barbara Wakimoto).
  • Keith Loren Frost, Physics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 4. C421 Physics/Astronomy. “From instantons to sphalerons: Thermal baryon non-conservation in the weak interactions.” (Prof. Laurence Yaffe).
  • Allan Jay Goren, English, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, June 7. A101C Padelford. “Fathers and sons in the prime of youth: Milton’s major and minor poetry.” (Prof. Sara Van den Berg).
  • John M. Grunkemeier, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, June 4. 115 Benson. “Activation of the procoagulant state in adherent platelets: “Effect of adhesion proteins and surface chemistry.” (Prof. Thomas Horbett).
  • Kevin Stephen Guilfoy, Philosophy, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Friday, June 4. 331 Savery. “Dicta and status: Peter Abelard’s theory of the proposition.” (Prof. Kenneth Clatterbaugh).
  • Andrew J. S. Hanneman, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. 8 Anderson. “Modification of wood extractives and hemicelluloses during TM pulping; implications for newsprint sizing.” (Prof. Bjorn Hrutfiord).
  • Kristi Rae Gayle Hendrickson, Physics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 15. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Measuring parity nonconservation using a single, trapped barium ion.” (Prof. E. Norval Fortson).
  • Randal Marlow Henne, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. Conference room, Harris Hydraulic Laboratory. “Computer modeling studies of G-protein coupled receptors.” (Prof. Terry Lybrand).
  • Daryl William Hochman, Special Individual Ph.D. Program, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, June 7. G417 HSC. “Chloride co-transport modulation of synchronous epileptiform discharge.” (Profs. Philip Schwartzkroin and Mark Cooper).
  • Wenlin Huang, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 8. 109L Bagley. “The origin and fate of methyl halides in natural waters.” (Prof. Richard Gammon).
  • Daniel Henry Ito, Fisheries, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, June 7. 201 Fisheries. “Assessing shortraker and rougheye rockfishes in the Gulf of Alaska: Addressing a problem of habitat specificity and sampling capability.” (Prof. Donald Gunderson).
  • Mary Holland Johnson, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 4. 303 EE/CSE. “Data compression for low bit rate transmission of marine imagery.” (Prof. Eve Riskin).
  • Thad Ryan Leffingwell, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 8. 120 Guthrie Annex I. “Psychological skills training utilization among college athletes: An intervention and investigtion of determinants.” (Prof. Ronald Smith).
  • Mark M. Lester, English, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 7. A106 Padelford. “Readings of Leibniz: Metaphysics in the writings of S.I. Witkiewicz, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis.” (Prof. Steven Shaviro).
  • Fredrick Werner Thomas Lokken, Music, D.M.A. 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. Fishbowl, Music. “The music for unaccompanied mixed chorus of Einojuhani Rautavaara.” (Prof. Abraham Kaplan).
  • Lisa Lynn Miller, Political Science, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 15. 40 Smith. “TAKING CONTROL: Race, community and the politics of crime prevention.” (Prof. Stuart Scheingold).
  • Robert Huw Morgan, Music, D.M.A. noon Thursday, June 10. 311 Music. “The preludes and fugues (Opus 36) of Marcel Dupre and their relationship to the harmonic and melodic processes as set forth in the Traite D’Improvisation A L’Orgue.” (Prof. Carole Terry).
  • Robert Huw Morgan, Music, D.M.A. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10. 311 Music. “An orchestration of the three songs from ‘Wilhelm Tell’ by Franz Liszt.” (Prof. Peter Eros).
  • Gretchen Anne Murphy, English, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, June 4. A101C Padelford. “Locating the nation: Literature, narrative and the Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1904.” (Prof. Priscilla Wald).
  • Claudio Luis Rampoldi, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. noon Monday, June 7. Milnor Roberts Room, Wilcox. “Non-invasive monitoring of thin-film growth by in situ real-time ellipsometry.” (Prof. Thomas Pearsall).
  • Irina Vladislavovna Rudakova, Drama, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 8. 301 Hutchinson. “ ‘Uncertain nature’: History of the Castrato singer in the early modern gender paradigm.” (Prof. Sarah Bryant-Bertail).
  • Brooke P. Skelton, Astronomy, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Giant HII regions in M33.” (Prof. Paul Hodge).
  • William Donald III Smith, History, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Monday, June 7. 306 Smith. “Ethnicity, class and gender in the mines: Korean workers in Japan’s Chikuho coal field, 1917-1945.” (Prof. James Palais).
  • Derek C. Stanford, Statistics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 4. 201 Loew. “Fast automatic unsupervised image segmentation and curve detection in spatial point processes.” (Prof. Adrian Raftery).
  • Fiammetta Straneo, Oceanography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, June 7. 123 Marine Sciences. “Dynamics of rotating convection including a horizontal stratification and wind.” (Prof. Mitsuhiro Kawase).
  • Wanlaya Thampanichawat, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, June 7. T305 HSC. “Thai mothers living with HIV infection in urban areas.” (Prof. Karen Schepp).
  • Elaine M. Walsh, Nursing-School of, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. T 513 HSC. “Suicide-Risk behaviors and drug involvement among potential high school dropouts.” (Prof. Leona Eggert).
  • Chris G. Walter, Geophysics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 4. 164 Johnson. “Data assimilation for ocean acoustic tomography.” (Prof. James Mercer).
  • Yanqun Wang, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 10. 403 EE/CSE. “Analysis of defibrillation efficacy and investigation of impedance cardiography with finite element models incorporating anisotropic myocardium.” (Prof. Yongmin Kim).
  • Michael Ray Weingrad, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 9. A101C Padelford. “Benjamin or Tataille: Transgression, redemption, and the origins of postmodern thought.” (Prof. Raimonda Modiano).
  • Charles Lamar Wiggins, Public Health and Community Medicine-Epidemiology, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 9. 927A Metropolitan Park East, FHCRC,. “Kaposi’s sarcoma and sexually transmitted disease.” (Prof. David Thomas).
  • Jack Scott Wiley, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 4. 102 Chemistry. “C-H bond activation in iridium complexes.” (Prof. Dennis Heinekey).
  • Jian Xu, Economics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. 302 Savery. “Four essays on international finance and macroeconomics.” (Prof. Stephen Turnovsky).n


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    June 3, 1999