91探花

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES 

Applicants wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from 91探花 faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States. The deadline for applications is April 15. For more information on application guidelines, please see the IESUS website at http://depts.washington.edu/iesus/ or direct questions to Carol Wong via e-mail at iesus@u.washington.edu or call 206-616-7518 (leave voicemail at ext #3).

ADAI Grants
The Alcohol & 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. The next application deadline is 5 p.m., March 15. Questions concerning the application process or suitability of a potential project should be directed to the Institute at 5206-43-0937. Application guidelines are available on the ADAI Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.

OTHER NEWS

Residence hall banquet facilities available
Looking for a room to hold your next banquet or reception? Consider the residence halls on campus. The Department of Housing and Food Services鈥� Catering and Conference Services offers just the right locations for your next event. McMahon Pompeii (70 capacity) and Books (20 capacity); Haggett Banquet (300 capacity with 4 side rooms 50 capacity each); and McCarty ABC (50-190 capacity). Call 206-685-2051 to set up an appointment to see these facilities.

91探花Faculty Auxiliary interest groups
The 91探花Faculty Auxiliary has just added two new interest groups that are open to the 91探花community 鈥� faculty, staff, students and friends.

Hiking/skiiing group: new men鈥檚/women鈥檚 hiking/skiing group has walked through Discovery and Seward Parks with more to come. Call Sheila Belcher (206-367-4989) or Bob Brown (206-524-4490) for more information.

Children鈥檚 play group: a great way for mothers to socialize and for children to find playmates. Contact Laurie Klavins (lcklavins@hotmail.com) or Erica Schorr-Evans (eschorr@comcast.net, 206-522-8506) for more information.

Blood drives

• Friday, March 5 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the Health Sciences Center.
  
• Monday, March 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 1:45 to 4 p.m in the HUB, Room 108
  
• Monday, March 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2:45 to 5 p.m. in the Terry Hall Lounge.
  
• Tuesday, March 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2:45 to 5 p.m. on Stevens Way, across from Lewis Hall.

DEGREE EXAMS

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

General Examinations

• Montaser N. Al-Qutub, Oral Biology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4. B228 Health Sciences. (Prof. Richard Darveau).
  
• Matthew D. Blair, Mathematics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 5. 107 Smith. (Prof. Hart Smith).
  
• Rebecca Ann Buchanan, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. 129 Fishery Sciences. (Prof. John Skalski).
  
• David Paul Finlayson, Oceanography, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 2. 211 Ocean Teaching. (Prof. Jeff Parsons).
  
• Paul K. Grant, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 3. D2-120 FHCRC. (Prof. Edward Giniger).
  
• Maureen Helen Hickey, Geography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, March 8. 409 Smith. (Prof. Victoria Lawson).
  
• Yoonsoo Kim, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, March 4. 206 Guggenheim. (Prof. Mehran Mesbahi).
  
• Ian Andrew Lange, Economics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Feb.. 27. 302C Savery. (Prof. Robert Halvorsen).
  
• Guoqing Li, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 3. M406 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Hui Liu).
  
• Yi Li, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Friday, March 5. 674 Allen Center. (Prof. Linda Shapiro).
  
• Laura Katherine Litzky, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 10. 113 Fisheries. (Prof. Glenn VanBlaricom).
  
• Ern C. Loh, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 5. K076 Health Sciences. (Prof. Lawrence Loeb).
  
• Adam N. Luedtke, Political Science, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, March 8. 1B Gowen. (Prof. James Caporaso).
  
• Patrick Sean McDonald, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 2. 113 Fisheries. (Prof. David Armstrong).
  
• Susan Searles Nielsen, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Thursday, March 11. M4-C302 FHCRC. (Prof. Beth Mueller).
  
• Rebekah Joann Salt, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. T513 Health Sciences. (Prof. Marjorie Muecke).
  
• Maximilian Andreas Schlosshauer-Selbach, Physics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, March 5. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Arthur Fine).
  
• Diedrich Augustus Schmidt, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Marjorie Olmstead).
  
• David P. Schneider, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 4. C421 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Eric Steig).
  
• Lei Shao, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 10. M306 EE1. (Prof. Sumit Roy).
  
• Yeping Su, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27. 108 AE. (Prof. Ming-Ting Sun).
  
• Jae Hyeuk Suk, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. 259 Mechanical Engineering. (Prof. Brian Fabien).
  
• Anna Vladimirona Tourovskaia, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2. 403 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Albert Folch).
  
• Kimberly C. Wachter, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 8. D2-120 FHCRC. (Prof. Toshi Tsukiyama).
  
• Mary Whitfield, Education, Ed.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 210 Music. (Prof. John Frederiksen).
  
• Guirong Zhou, Geography, Ph.D. 10:45 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27. 409 Smith. (Prof. Timothy Nyerges).

Final Examinations

• Michael Cameron Babcock, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, March 5. J280 Health Sciences. 鈥淔orward and reverse genetic approaches to studying synaptic transmission in Drosophila Melanogaster.鈥� (Prof. Leo Pallanck).
  
• Nikolina Babic, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 102 Chemistry. 鈥淩egulation of energy metabolism of rat myoblasts.鈥� (Profs. Norman Dovichi and Craig Beeson).
  
• Steve Keith Capell, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 303 Allen Center. 鈥淚nteractive character animation using dynamic elastic simulation.鈥� (Profs. Brian Curless and Zoran Popovic).
  
• Lisa Anne De Roo, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Monday, March 8. M4-C302 FHCRC. 鈥淪moking during first pregnancy and the risk of breast cancer.鈥� (Prof. Beth Mueller).
  
• Heather Clark Easterling, English, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. A106 Padelford. 鈥淧arsing the city: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and city comedy鈥檚 London as language.鈥� (Prof. Sara van den Berg).
  
• Marc Eric Fiuczynski, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 1. 203 Allen Center. 鈥淪afe and efficient resource sharing in component-based systems.鈥� (Prof. Brian Bershad).
  
• Sung-Kwan Joo, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27. M406 Electrical Engineering. 鈥淎vailable transfer capability and congestion management in interconnected electricity markets.鈥� (Prof. Chen-Ching Liu).
  
• Taeik Kim, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, March 1. 403 EE1. 鈥淒esign of a phase shifter and an oscillator using on-chip transmission lines for wireless communications.鈥� (Profs. David Allstot and Ward Helms).
  
• Rainer Leuschke, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 219A Mechanical Engineering. 鈥淢otor integrated actuation for a flywheel energy storage system.鈥� (Prof. Brian Fabien).
  
• Hao Li, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 2. 303 Electrical Engineering. 鈥淪trategic technologies to enhance power infrastructure security.鈥� (Prof. Chen-Ching Liu).
  
• Stephen Murray Morris, Music, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, March 8. 202 Commmunications. 鈥淲illiam Young, 鈥淓nglishman鈥� (?-1662), Camer Musici to Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Innsbruck: Fragments of his life and times; an edition of his instrumental works for viols and violins.鈥� (Prof. Richard Will).
  
• Clare Louise Newstead, Geography, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. 409 Smith. 鈥淣egotiating the region: (Dis)entangling the politics of possibility in the post-colonial Caribbean.鈥� (Prof. Victoria Lawson).
  
• Yuko Ogata, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. 439 Chemistry. 鈥淎utomated affinity measurement of biospecific interactions using a lab-on-valve apparatus coupled to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.鈥� (Prof. Frantisek Turecek).
  
• Vincent Pons, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4. 102 Chemistry. 鈥淔rom dihydrogen complexes to polyhydrides.鈥� (Prof. D. Michael Heinekey).
  
• Matthew J. Pruis, Oceanography, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4. 123 Marine Sciences. 鈥淓nergy and volume flux into the deep ocean: Examining diffuse hydrothermal systems.鈥� (Prof. H. Paul Johnson).
  
• Carolina Katz Reid, Geography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27. 409 Smith. 鈥淎chieving the American dream? A longitudinal analysis of the homeownership experiences of low-income families.鈥� (Prof. Suzanne Withers).
  
• James Henry Rigali, History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, March 11. 306 Smith. 鈥淩estoring the republic of virtue: The presidential election of 1824.鈥� (Prof. William Rorabaugh).
  
• Jessica L. Sneeden, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27. K069 Health Sciences. 鈥淩ibonucleotide reductase: Determinants of radical stability.鈥� (Prof. Lawrence Loeb).
  
• Cam Charles Solomon, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 3. F348 Health Sciences. 鈥淢elanoma and lifetime UV history.鈥� (Prof. Emily White).
  
• Sarah L. Sterling, Anthropology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27. 401 Denny. 鈥淪ocial complexity in ancient Egypt: Functional differentiation as reflected in the distribution of apparently standardized ceramics.鈥� (Prof. Angela Close).
  
• Karl David Westby, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. 218 More. 鈥淪ystems analysis of freight transportation networks.鈥� (Prof. Nancy Nihan).
  
• Guanbin Xing, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. 108 AE. 鈥淥FDM based high speed wireless systems: Design and implementation.鈥� (Prof. Hui Liu).
  
• Xiaorong Xiong, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, March 8. 403 EE 1. 鈥淐ontrolled multi-batch self-assembly of micro devices by electrochemical surface modification.鈥� (Prof. Karl Bohringer).
  
• Vesna Zderic, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 5. Hardisty Conference Center, Applied Physics Laboratory. 鈥淯ltrasound-enhanced ocular drug delivery.鈥� (Prof. Shahram Vaezy).
  
• Meng Zhang, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. 403 Electrical Engineering. 鈥淭ranscriptional regulation of methanol dehydrogenase genes in methylobacterium extorquens AM1.鈥� (Prof. Mary Lidstrom).