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Classes

Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following free safety classes to university personnel. Preregistration is required; call 543-7201 to register, to schedule departmental training or to be added to the mailing list. Or register online at http://www.ehs.washington.edu.

  • Managing Laboratory Chemicals and Spill Cleanup: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Aug. 5, T-473 Health Sciences Center.
  • Shipping and Transporting Hazardous Materials: 8:30-12:30 p.m., Aug. 6, Hall Health 301B.
  • Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control: 1:30-2:30 p.m., Aug. 12, T-473 Health Sciences Center.
  • Laboratory Safety System (LSS) Training: 1-2:30 p.m., Aug. 17, OUGL Computer Resources Center, Collab II.
  • Back Protection Training: 9:30-11 a.m., Aug. 19, EE1-025.
  • Laboratory Fire Safety Training: 9:30-11 a.m., Aug. 24, T-531 Health Sciences Center.
  • Forklift Operator Safety Training: 8:30-11:30 a.m., Aug. 31, T-360A Health Sciences Center.

    A training schedule and other safety information are available on the EH&S Web site: http://www.ehs.washington.edu.

    Degree Exams

    General Examinations

  • Eduardo J Armijo, Education, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 216 Miller. (Prof. Joseph Stowitschek).
  • Margaret Wooding Baker, School of Nursing, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. T605 Health Sciences. (Prof. Margaret Dimond).
  • Yao-Hsin Huang, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 13. 259 Mechanical Engineering. (Prof. Per Reinhall).
  • Ravi Kumar Sawhney, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. MCB Conference Room, Health Sciences. (Prof. Jonathon Howard).
  • Darin James Soukup, Geophysics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19. 310C Atmospheric Sciences/Geophysics. (Prof. Robert Odom).
  • Ting Sun, Fisheries, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 210 Fisheries. (Prof. Kenneth Chew).

    Final Examinations

  • Fuminori Arai, Economics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16. 302 Savery. “The transformation of production structure.” (Prof. Yoram Barzel).
  • Jennifer Dawn Banks, Microbiology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Characterization of a minimal avian leukosis-sarcoma virus packaging signal.” (Prof. Maxine Linial).
  • Jeffrey David Brown, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. K069 Health Sciences. “Mechanisms and functions of Wnt signaling in Xenopus development.” (Prof. Randall Moon).
  • Deborah Caplow, Art History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 312 Art. “Leopoldo Mendez, revolutionary art, and the Mexican print: In service of the people.” (Prof. Patricia Failing).
  • Paul Albin Carlson, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. T531 Health Sciences. “Lipid high-axial-ratio microstructures as pharmaceutical delivery systems: A physical characterization of the mechanisms behind drug release.” (Prof. Paul Yager).
  • Chi-Ling Chen, Public Health and Community Medicine—Epidemiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 927B & 927C Metropolitan Park II, FHCRC. “A nested case-control study of hormone replacement therapy in relation to breast cancer.” (Prof. Emily White).
  • Chiun-Fang Chiou, Economics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 302 Savery. “Developing an effectiveness measure for pediatric medicine and health service programs—case study for children with asthma.” (Prof. Marcia Weaver).
  • Alexander Douglas Cronin, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “New techniques for measuring atomic parity violation.” (Prof. E. Norval Fortson).
  • Stephen Mark Debruynkops, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. 219A Mechanical Engineering. “Numerical simulation of non-premixed turbulent combustion.” (Prof. James Riley).
  • Marilyn Farnsworth Dille, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. 26 Speech and Hearing Sciences. “Intensity effects on the cognitive P3 evoked response.” (Prof. Richard Folsom).
  • Michael Joseph Ferguson, Social Work, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. 116 Social Work. “An examination of risks, protective factors, and differential rates of AFDC usage among teen mothers.” (Prof. Richard Weatherley).
  • Cliona Mary Fleming, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. 108 Bagley. “Second order chemometric methods and the analysis of complex data.” (Prof. Bruce Kowalski).
  • Michael David Garrison, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. RR134 Health Sciences. “A systems approach to recognition imaging: Micropatterning and scanning force microscopy in the development of engineered biomaterials.” (Prof. Buddy Ratner).
  • Syed Tanveer Haider, Botany, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. HCK324 Health Sciences. “Host-range specificity of a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin as analyzed by protein engineering.” (Prof. Arnold Bendich).
  • Nan Hussey, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. B526 Padelford. “Fragmentation and wholeness in the novels of Luisa Josefina Hernandez and Gerlind Reinshagen.” (Prof. Cynthia Steele).
  • James Alfred Janack, Speech Communication, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. 205 Raitt. “The Troika of the Russian soul: Rhetoric and national identity in the post-Soviet era.” (Prof. Barbara Warnick).
  • Duncan Bruce Johnstone, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6. K076 Health Sciences. “Membrane excitability and mutant nematodes.” (Prof. James Thomas).
  • Sang-Choon Kim, Economics, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 302 Savery. “Innovation and training in a closed and open economy: Implications for learning and economic growth.” (Prof. Charles Engel).
  • Paul Anton Kuntz, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 9. 203 EE/CSE. “Reliability-centered maintenance scheduling in electric power distribution systems.” (Prof. Richard Christie).
  • Su-Ying Liang, Economics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 302 Savery. “Contract choice and physician productivity.” (Prof. Keith Leffler).
  • Dawn Lynnea Martin, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 6. 001 Eagleson. “Effect of PMCA2 mutation on cochlear responses and their development in deafwaddler mice.” (Prof. Richard Folsom).
  • Garfield Richard Mellema, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. 403 EE/CSE. “Subcritical transmission across a fluid-solid boundary due to interface roughness—laboratory measurement and perturbation theory model.” (Prof. Terry Ewart).
  • Douglas Grant Mercer, Geography, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. 409 Smith. “The nature of fairness: What the biggest land cleanup effort in world history has to say about the culture of American environmental management.” (Profs. William Beyers and Katharyne Mitchell).
  • Marsha Riddle, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 216 Miller. “A closer look below the bar: What characterizes the reading of students who fail to demonstrate proficiency on the 4th-grade reading section of the 1998 Washington assessment of student learning (WASL)?” (Prof. Sheila Valencia).
  • Patricia Maria Saldarriaga De Von Loebenstein, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6. C104 Padelford. “Poetica del cuerpo femenino en el Primero Sueno.” (Prof. Edgar O’Hara).
  • George Woltz Pollard York, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. 403 EE/CSE. “Architecture and algorithms for a fully programmable ultrasound system.” (Prof. Yongmin Kim). ¶


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    August 5,1999