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Meetings
Board of Regents
The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, 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
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.
Earthquake/Disaster Preparedness: 9-10:30 a.m., Friday, July 23, Hall Health 301B.
Forklift Safety Refresher Training: 8:30-10 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 3, T-474A Health Sciences Center
Managing Laboratory Chemicals and Spill Cleanup: 1:30-3 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 5, T-473, Health Sciences Center.
A training schedule is also available on the EH&S Web site: http://www.ehs.washington.edu
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 the 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.
Urban Horticulture
Preregistration is required for all of these classes. Call 685-8033 for information. Classes meet at the Union Bay campus, 3501 N.E. 41st St., unless otherwise noted.
Stone or Paver Patios: 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, July 31, $27.
Broadleafed Evergreen Trees & Shrubs for the Garden Home: 7-9 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4, and 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 7, $35.
Other
Blood Drive
Heath Sciences Blood Drive: 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. and 1:45-7 p.m., Friday, July 23, Health Sciences Lobby.
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 e-mail travel@u.washington.edu.
Puget Sound Blood Center
Nondonating Volunteers Needed: Puget Sound Blood Center has volunteer opportunities available at the University Health Sciences Building blood drives on Aug. 13, Aug. 20 and Sept. 3 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Volunteers are needed to register donors, to monitor them and serve them refreshments after they’ve given blood. If you are unable to donate blood yourself, this is another great way to help maintain the community blood supply throughout the summer. Please call Robyn Chernick at 206-292-2751 for more information.
Degree Exams
General Examinations
Stephanie Leanne Johnson, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 23. A106 Padelford. (Prof. Sydney Kaplan).
Estelle Rochelle Klasner, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 27. 52 Social Work. (Prof. Lesley Olswang).
David Huu Tran, Genetics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug 5. J182 Health Sciences. (Prof. Celeste Berg).
Final Examinations
Lynn Carol Behar, Social Work, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, July 29. 210F Social Work. “Getting through it: A descriptive study of the experiences of single mothers with breast cancer and adolescent children.” (Prof. Lewayne Gilchrist).
Allison Adin Bianchi, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug 2. 37 EE/CSE. “Characterization and application of Escherichia coli stress promoter-lacZ fusions.” (Prof. Francois Baneyx).
Hueifang Chen, School of Nursing, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Monday, Aug 2. T404 Health Sciences. “Family care-giving for Chinese American elderly: A grounded theory study.” (Prof. Frances Lewis).
Timothy Jay Johnson, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, Aug 2. 117 Benson. “Electrokinetic clarification of concentrated colloidal suspensions.” (Prof. E. James Davis).
William Thomas Grimes Johnson, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 23. 102 Chemistry. “Synthesis of precursors of a highly pyramidalized alkene and Ab Initio calculations on methylenecyclopropane, and 1, 3-diradicals.” (Prof. Weston Borden).
Charles Conrad Krusekopf, Economics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 30. 302 Savery. “Land tenure institutions and agricultural productivity in post-reform China.” (Prof. Anil Deolalikar).
Daniel Marc Landis, Pathology, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 29. T-733 Health Sciences. “In vitro evolution of 5-fluorouracil resistant thymidylate synthases for cancer gene therapy.” (Prof. Lawrence Loeb).
Jennifer Cully Nordby, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 23. 57 Guthrie. “Song learning in the song sparrow (Melospiza molodia): Ecological and social factors.” (Prof. Michael Beecher).
Roberto Cabanban Ramos, Jr. Physics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug 3. C421 Physics/Astronomy. “Liquid-vapor coexistence in two-dimensional 3 He-4 He mixtures.” (Prof. Oscar Vilches).
Gregory Kirk Ridgeway, Statistics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug 5. 325 Thomson. “Generalization of boosting algorithms and applications of Bayesian inference to massive datasets.” (Profs. David Madigan and Thomas Richardson).
Stacey Lynn Shook, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, July 26. 172B Experimental Education Unit. “Teaching children with autism to ask questions in integrated preschool settings: A comparison of constant and progressive time delay.” (Prof. Felix Billingsley).
Gina Stivahtis Lowe, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 1:15 p.m. Monday, Aug 2. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “The role of Vpr in cell-cycle regulation by diverse primate lentiviruses.” (Prof. Michael Emerman).
James Stephen Tolf, Classics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, July 23. 210 Denny. “Patterns of imagery in Ciceronian Invective.” (Prof. Alain Gowing).
Anthony David Tramontin, Zoology, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 29. 114 Kincaid. “Seasonal plasticity of neural circuits in the adult songbird brain.” (Prof. Eliot Brenowitz).
Jun Zhong, Genetics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 23. J280 Health Sciences. “A double-stranded RNA binding protein that is important for murine spermatogenesis and growth.” (Prof. Robert Braun). ¶
University Week
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July 22, 1999
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