Deadlines

Tuition bills were mailed Sept. 24. If you have not received your tuition statement, please visit our Web site at http://www.washington.edu, call STAR at 548-7827 or contact the Student Accounts Office, 543-4695.

Oct 15, 1999—Tuition Due Date—Autumn Quarter

Payments made after Oct. 15 require a Late Payment Fee.

Failure to pay by Nov. 17 will result in registration cancellation.

Grant Proposals: Sept. 17 is the deadline for receipt of proposals at Grant and Contract Services for proposals due on Oct. 1 at the awarding agency.

Academic Opportunities

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from university faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards. Proposed research must be in alcohol or drug abuse-related fields. The maximum amount considered for funding is $20,000. Application deadline is 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 15. Questions concerning suitability of a potential project should be directed to the institute at 543-0937. Application guidelines are available on ADAI’s Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/adai/ or by calling 543-0937.

CSSS Seed Grants Program
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), one of two academic centers funded by the 1999 University Initiatives Fund, is the nation’s first interdisciplinary center for the study of statistics and social science. The Seed Grants Program will provide funding for promising research at the intersection of statistics and social science. Although collaborative research across disciplines—particularly between statisticians and social scientists—is encouraged it is not a formal requirement. The goal is to stimulate scholarly initiative by encouraging faculty to explore new directions in research and scholarship that contributes to the development of statistical methods for social scientific problems. Funds typically will be used to pursue pilot studies, feasibility studies or preliminary research that initiates a larger line of research. Awards will be in the range of $10,000-20,000, and typically include one-month summary salary for a principal investigator and one-quarter salary for a research assistant. As many as 10 awards are expected to be made each year. Researchers funded are expected to participate regularly in the CSSS Seminar Series, both by attending and by giving at least one seminar on the project topic. Extramural proposals that derive from funded projects will be expected to be administered through CSSS. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 15. Awards will be announced on Feb. 15. For complete guidelines or to submit proposals, contact Gayle Gray, CSSS, B-308 Padelford Box 354322, 543-8298.

Degree Exams

Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the exams of the following students. Chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.

General Examinations