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Blood Pressure Screening

Free blood pressure screening is sponsored by UW Hall Health Primary Care Center once a month. Times and locations are:

  • The HUB: Second Tuesday, 10 a.m.-
    2 p.m.
  • Faculty Club: First Wednesday,
    11 a.m.-1 p.m.
  • Schmitz Hall: Second Wednesday,
    11 a.m.-1 p.m.
  • South Campus Center: Fourth Wednesday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
  • Hall Health Primary Care Center: Thursdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

    Surplus Equipment

    The following are available for interdepartmental transfer:

  • One ABI 391 and two ABI 381 oligo synthesizers. All in need of repair. Minimum offer $2,000 for all three. Contact mcknight@u.washington.edu.

    Degree Exams

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

    GENERAL EXAMINATIONS

  • Jura Avizienis, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 25. B526 Padelford. (Prof. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen).
  • Andrew John Dunning, Public Health and Community Medicine - Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 29. F348 Health Sciences. (Prof. Ziding Feng).
  • Laurel Ann Franzen, Business Administration, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. (Prof. Robert Bowen).
  • Jean-Elie Gilles, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 25. B202 Padelford. (Prof. Douglas Collins).
  • Connie Sau-Kuen Kwok, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25. 115 Benson. (Prof. Buddy Ratner).
  • Asuncion Paloma Martinez-Carbajo, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 29. C104 Padelford. (Prof. Anthony Geist).
  • Katherine Susan Maynard, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 2. C249 Padelford. (Prof. Jean-Pierre van Elslande).
  • Emilio Mayorga, Oceanography, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 29. 123 Marine Sciences. (Prof. Jeffrey Richey).
  • Jennifer A Mcknight, History, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 28. 320 Smith. (Prof. Robin Stacey).

    FINAL EXAMINATIONS

  • Lynn Marie Amon, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, March 2. 439 Chemistry. “Methods for calculating the free energy of atomic clusters.” (Prof. William Reinhardt).
  • Emer Dooley, Business Administration, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 1. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. “Intellectual capital in the software industry: An empirical test.” (Prof. Gary Hansen).
  • Robert Kenneth Masse, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28. 101 Loew. “Fluid dynamics of the shock wave reactor.” (Prof. David Russell).
  • Caroline Louise O’Farrell, Fisheries, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, March 2. 108 Fishery Sciences. “In Vitro and In Vivo comparisons of virulent and attenuated strains of the salmonid fish pathogen Renibacterium salmoninarum.” (Prof. Marsha Landolt).
  • Ross Benito Ortega, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 1. 422 Sieg. “Communication synthesis and interface synthesis for embedded systems.” (Prof. Gaetano Borriello).
  • Claudio Piani, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25. 64 Johnson. “A numerical study of three dimensional gravity waves triggered by deep convection and their role in the quasi-biennial oscillation.” (Profs. Dale Durran and James Holton).
  • Caren Louisa Seagraves, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 29. 319 Bagley. “Simple models of complex systems: A 2-state lattice model of membrane proteins and a study of friction between a polymer and post.” (Prof. William Reinhardt).
  • James William Thomas, English, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2. A101C Padelford. “The shaman in the disco and other dreams of masculinity: A theory of male self-alienation.” (Prof. Robert Shulman).



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    January 24, 2000