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Meetings

The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 16, 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.

Classes

Environmental Health and Safety

Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following free safety classes to University personnel. Preregistration is required. Call 543-7201 to register, for departmental training, or to be added to the mailing list.

  • Fire Extinguisher Training (with hands-on instruction): 9:30-10:30 a.m., July 13, Fisheries Teaching and Research 106.
  • HazCom Train-the-Trainer: 8:30-12:30 p.m., July 16, Hall Health 301B.
  • Compressed Gas Safety: 9:30-10:30 a.m., July 22, Hall Health 301B.
  • Earthquake/Disaster Preparedness: 9-10:30 a.m., July 23, Hall Health 301B.

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

    Training and Development

    Training and Development offers the following class. For details, call 685-8033.

  • Investment fundamentals to enrich your life, by Bill Schulteis, 7:30-9 a.m., July 9, Faculty Club, $9.75 early registration.

    Library Computer

    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. All classes are held in the HSLIC Library Teaching Lab unless otherwise noted.

  • Searching Health Sciences Databases on the Web: 10:30-11 a.m., July 13; 9:30-10 a.m., July 14; 1:30-2 p.m., July 27; 9:30-10 a.m., July 28.
  • Advanced PubMed Searching Techniques: 9:30-10:30 a.m., July 15.
  • Searching Music in the Libraries Online Catalog: 2:30-3:30 p.m., July 8.
  • Basic PubMed: 1:30-2 p.m., July 20; 2:30-3 p.m., July 21.
  • UW Libraries Information Gateway—Beyond Surfing: Intermediate WWW:2:30-3:20 p.m., July 20, Engineering Library Instruction Center

    Urban Horticulture

    Preregistration is required for all of these classes. Call (206) 685-8033 for information. Classes meet at the Union Bay campus, 3501 N.E. 41st St. unless otherwise noted.

  • Troublesome Weeds, 7-9 p.m., Thursday, July 8, $8.
  • Arboretum Plant Study Program, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Saturday, July 10, $20. (Meet at the Graham Visitors Center, 2300 Arboretum Dr. E.)
  • IPM Strategies for the Home Gardener, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, $18, Seattle Univ. Chapel.
  • Creating Your Own Small Water Feature, 7:30-9 p.m., July 15, $5.
  • Arboretum Plant Study Program, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., July 24, $20. (Meet at the Graham Visitors Center, 2300 Arboretum Dr. E.) .
  • Stone or Paver Patios, 9 a.m.-noon, July 31, $27.

    Other

    International Travel Shots Available

    The Hall Health Travel Clinic is ready to help you have a safe and productive international journey, whether for business, field study or pleasure. Everyone on and off campus is eligible to use the services. When possible, try to call 4-6 weeks before your departure date so that immunizations can be scheduled at your convenience. For an appointment call 616-1186. For more information, call 685-1060 or send an e-mail to travel@u.washington.edu.

    Blood Drive

    Health Sciences Lobby, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:45-7 p.m., July 23.

    Exams

    General Examinations

  • Robert Thomas Carroll, School of Nursing, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. T513 Health Sciences. (Prof. Mary Durand Thomas).
  • Jennie Beth Dorman, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 14. J182 Health Sciences. (Prof. Celeste Berg).
  • Marc Eric Fiuczynski, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 15. 422 Sieg. (Prof. Brian Bershad).
  • Timothy J Garrett, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 9. 406 Atmospheric Sciences. (Prof. Peter Hobbs).
  • Santiago Gasso, Geophysics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Thursday, July 22. 164 Johnson. (Prof. Dean Hegg).
  • Robyn Leagh Mc Clelland, Public Health and Community Medicine-Biostatistics, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, July 15. Biostatistics F-wing conference room, Health Sciences. (Prof. Richard Kronmal).
  • Merrilee Robatzek, Genetics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, July 12. J182 Health Sciences. (Prof. James Thomas).
  • Jia Ling Song, Public Health and Community Pathobiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 22. I-140 Health Sciences. (Prof. Theodore White).
  • Ting Sun, Fisheries, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 22. 210 Fisheries. (Prof. Kenneth Chew).
  • Shizhen Wang, Fisheries, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 21. 210 Fisheries. (Prof. William Hershberger).
  • Regina Wender, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 21. G417 Health Sciences. (Prof. Bruce Ransom).

    Final Examinations

  • J. Michael Allen, History, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 13. 306 Smith. “History, nation, people: Past and present in the writing of Sin Ch’aeho.” (Prof. James Palais).
  • Thomas Michael Braun, Public Health and Community Medicine-Biostatistics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 13. F653 Health Sciences. “Optimal analysis of group randomized trials with permutation tests.” (Prof. Ziding Feng).
  • Stephen Delancey Clickard, Music, D.M.A. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 15. Fishbowl, Music. “A study of the programmatic aspects in the wind music of Michael Colgrass.” (Prof. Timothy Salzman).
  • Douglas Eugene Davidson, Physics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, July 19. C421 Physics/Astronomy. Fluctuating steps on crystal surfaces.” (Prof. Marcel den Nijs).
  • Beth Ellen Harris, Political Science, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15. 40 Smith. “The power of poverty lawyers: Defending a ‘right-to-home’.” (Prof. Michael McCann).
  • Rex Matthew Jakobovits, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 14. 422 Sieg. “The Web interfacing repository manager: A framework for developing Web-based experiment management systems.” (Prof. James Brinkley).
  • Scot Douglas Johnson, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, July 9. 64 Johnson. “Markov model studies of the El Niño—southern oscillation.” (Prof. Edward Sarachik).
  • Linsong Li, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 15. T733 Health Sciences. “Type VII phosphodiesterase in regulation of T cell function.” (Prof. Joseph Beavo).
  • Vicki Ann Luna, Public Health and Community Medicine-Pathobiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 9. K069 Health Sciences. “The identification and distribution of multidrug resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae in Washington State.” (Prof. Marilyn Roberts).
  • Ashwin Mahesh, Geophysics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 9. 310C Atmospheric Science/Geophysics. “Ground-based remote sensing of cloud properties over Antarctica.” (Prof. Stephen Warren).
  • Theresa Jane Mc Cann, Public Health and Community Medicine-Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. F348 Health Sciences. “Risk of opportunistic infections following low dose methotrexate treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.” (Prof. Thomas Koepsell).
  • Pamela Jean Neal, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22. 403 EE/CSE. “Finding and matching topographic features in 3-D object meshes.” (Prof. Linda Shapiro).
  • Jennifer Lea Nelson, Public Health and Community Medicine-Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 14. Dept. F600, Room F643 (Biostatistics Conf. Rm.) Health Sciences. “A graphical methodology for describing interrater variability in ordinal assessments among many raters.” (Prof. Margaret Pepe).
  • Diana Margarita Pallais, Political Science, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 19. 40 Smith. “Breaching protocol: Caciquismo and administrative capacity in rural Mexico.” (Prof. Anthony Gill).
  • David John Poole, Statistics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15. 226 Communications. “Bayesian inference in noninvertible deterministic simulation models with application to bowhead whale assessment.” (Prof. Adrian Raftery).
  • Sean Daniel Williams, English, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 19. A101C Padelford. “Theorizing a perspective on World Wide Web argumentation.” (Prof. George Dillon).
  • Sarah Margaret Woolley, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 9. K069 Health Sciences. “Auditory feedback and song behavior in adult Bengalese finches.” (Prof. Edwin Rubel). ¶



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    July 8, 1999