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May 6, 2004

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Board of Regents Meeting
The 91探花 Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall on the Seattle campus. 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.

Research participants wanted
The Department of Environmental Health is seeking people with asthma, ages 18鈥�50, to participate in a study of the effects of inhalation of sulfur dioxide on lung function. The study will involve one screening visit and two lab visits. Participants will receive $50 per lab visit. For more information, please contact Jane Koenig or Karen Jansen at 206-543- 2026.

Blood drives
Friday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.

Monday, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 4 p.m. in the HUB, Room 108 and from 11 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and 2:30 to 5 p.m. in the SAE main living room.

Tuesday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 pm and 2:45 to 5 p.m. on Stevens Way across from Lewis Hall.

Monday, May 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:45 to 5 p.m. in the bus parked at University Way and 40th.


 


Legal Notice


Public Hearing Set
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Thursday, May 27, in Room 309 of the Husky Union Building (HUB) at the UW, Seattle campus. The purpose of the hearing is to allow all interested persons an opportunity to present their views, either orally or in writing, on the proposed amendments to Chapter 478鈥�168 WAC, 鈥淩egulations for the 91探花 Libraries.鈥�

The proposed amendments to Chapter 478-168 WAC remove non-essential elements from the code that are more appropriate to the 91探花 Libraries Operations Manual and Web site. Additionally, obsolete policies have been removed and housekeeping changes made for names of units and position titles.

Copies of the proposed WAC rules may be obtained by contacting Rebecca Goodwin Deardorff, Director, Rules Coordination Office, 4014 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105鈥�6203; Campus Mail: Box 355509; or by phone at 206鈥�543鈥�9199. Copies will also be available at the public hearing.

Persons wishing to provide written comment may submit their remarks to Ms. Deardorff at the above address, by e-mail to rules@u.washington.edu, or by fax to 206鈥�616鈥�6294, by May 27.

To request disability accommodation for this hearing, contact the 91探花Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance of the event: 206鈥�543鈥�6450/voice, 206鈥�543鈥�6452/TTY, 206鈥�685鈥�7264/fax, or by e-mail at dso@u.washington.edu.

Degree Exams


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

General Examinations


  • Jason B. Benedict, Chemistry, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, May 20. 439 Chemistry. (Prof. Bart Kahr).
  • Nina Rafterman Derby, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, May 10. H464 Health Sciences. (Prof. Leo Stamatatos).
  • Karim Filali, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 12. 303 Allen Center. (Prof. Jeff Bilmes).Bela Andras Frigyik, Mathematics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 13. C36 Padelford. (Prof. Gunther Uhlmann).
  • Christopher Whiteley Fuller, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 17. 101 CDH. (Prof. Sean Willett).
  • Michelle Marian Garrison, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 19. 220E Child Health Institute. (Prof. Ann Vander Stoep).
  • Kathleen Schuyler Gobush, Zoology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 17. A023D Kincaid. (Prof. Samuel Wasser).
  • Jessica K. Graybill, Geography, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, May 11. 412A Smith. (Prof. Craig Zumbrunnen).
  • Ashish Kumar Gupta, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. 303 Allen Center. (Prof. Dan Suciu).
  • Mark Daniel Holland, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 20. M406 EE1. (Prof. Scott Hauck).
  • Shehnaz K. Hussain, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, May 17. M4-B104 FHCRC. (Prof. Stephen Schwartz).
  • Jamie Rena Klemp, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. H 464 Health Sciences. (Prof. Chris Wilson).
  • Christopher L. Kuyper, Chemistry, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, May 18. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. Daniel Chiu).
  • Kimberly Sui Fa Lau, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 19. 339 Chemistry. (Prof. Martin Gouterman).
  • Meehwa Baram Lee, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, May 13. M218 Gowen. (Prof. David Knechtges).
  • Juan Li, English, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 13. A106 Padelford. (Prof. Gail Stygall).
  • Guiping Lu, Law, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 10. 433 William Gates. (Prof. Veronica Taylor).
  • Darrin Lynn Magee, Geography, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 14. 412A Smith. (Prof. Kam Wing Chan).
  • Aimee J. Mell, Music, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, May 20. Fishbowl, Music. (Prof. Larry Starr).
  • Daniel Glen Renfrow, Sociology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. 110C Savery. (Prof. Judith Howard).
  • Newton T. Samuel, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, May 10. 109 Benson. (Prof. David Castner).
  • Todd Richard Seamons, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 17. 113 Fisheries. (Prof. Thomas Quinn).
  • Magid Shihade, Near and Middle Eastern Studies Group, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 20. 065 Communications. (Prof. Daniel Chirot).
  • Ji-Young Um, English, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 19. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Caroline Simpson).
  • Chu Wang, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 10. J412 Health Sciences. (Prof. David Baker).

Final Examinations


  • Jin Young Bae, Music, D.M.A. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 19. 216 Music. 鈥淜arg-Elert鈥檚 passacaglia and fugue on B-A-C-H: A study on harmonic and stylistic analysis.鈥� (Prof. Carole Terry).
  • Naomi Johanna Cotton, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. T747 Health Sciences. 鈥淏iological significance, oxidative inhibition, and gluthathiolation of human soluble catechol-O-methyltransferase.鈥� (Prof. William Parson).
  • Tom E. Dykstra, History, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 19. 306 Smith. 鈥淛osephism鈥� reconsidered: The monks of the Iosifo-Volokolamsk Monastery, 1479-1607.鈥� (Prof. Daniel Waugh).
  • Thomas Greg Fazzio, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, May 13. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. 鈥淚sw2 complex slides nucleosomes to create repressive chromatin structure in vivo.鈥� (Prof. Toshio Tsukiyama).
  • Melissa Louise Gjellstad, Scandinavian Studies, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 18. 314 Raitt. 鈥淢othering at millennium鈥檚 end: Family in 1990s Norwegian literature.鈥� (Prof. Jan Sjavik).
  • Delores Ann Hungerford, Music, D.M.A. 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 17. Fishbowl, Music. 鈥淭he use of a flexible fiber optic scope to view the oral cavities of experienced and less experienced clarinetists.鈥� (Prof. William McColl).
  • Sandra Kay Johnston, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, May 13. T305 Health Sciences. 鈥淢arkers of inflammation in persons with rheumatoid arthritis and major depression: Effects of antidepressant therapy.鈥� (Prof. Patricia Prinz).
  • Cynthia Lynn King, Communication – Department of, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 19. 102E Communications. 鈥淓xamining proper communicative conduct in the discursive construction of racialized others: An analysis of perspectives in the case of Saul Bellow and Brent Staples.鈥� (Prof. Gerry Philipsen).
  • Darren James Kisgen, Business Administration, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. Main Conference Room, Lewis. 鈥淐redit ratings and capital structure.鈥� (Prof. Edward Rice).
  • Yang Liu, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 7. McCabe Room, Mackenzie. 鈥淭he sources of debt matter, too.鈥� (Prof. Jonathan Karpoff).
  • David Mitsuo Nixon, Philosophy, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 17. 345B Savery. 鈥淧erceptual knowledge: Explorations and extensions of the Sellarsian framework.鈥� (Prof. Cass Weller).
  • Michael Alexander Nolan, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 14. T 478 Health Sciences. 鈥淕enetic approaches to the study of PKA-mediated signaling in the context of body weight regulation and male fertility.鈥� (Prof. G. Stanley McKnight).
  • Todd Gregory Nystul, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. 鈥淎noxia-induced suspended animation in Caenorhabditis elegans.鈥� (Prof. Mark Roth).
  • Noah Todd Owen-Ashley, Zoology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, May 7. 132 Hitchcock. 鈥淓nvironmental regulation of immune-endocrine phenomena in songbirds.鈥� (Prof. John Wingfield).
  • Kambiz Rahimi, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. 503 CSE. 鈥淎daptive delay sequential elements.鈥� (Prof. Chris Diorio).
  • Salvador Ruiz Correa, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 5 p.m. Monday, May 10. Bowen Room, Fluke. 鈥淩ecognizing deformable shapes.鈥� (Profs. Linda Shapiro and Thomas Furness III).
  • Matthew Stephen Steele, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 14. 402 Denny. 鈥淢ale microbicides, genital hygiene, and HIV risk behaviors among Kenyan men.鈥� (Prof. Bettina Shell-Duncan).
  • Erik Alan Syrstad, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. 439 Chemistry. 鈥淣eutralization-reionization mass spectrometry and computational studies of hydrogen atom adducts to the amide bond.鈥� (Prof. Frantisek Turecek).
  • Steven A. Trudell, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 20. 22 Anderson. 鈥淧atterns of nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios in macrofungi, plants, and soils from two old-growth conifer forests, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA.鈥� (Prof. Robert Edmonds).
  • Glen S. Wallace, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, May 7. 401 Condon. 鈥淐onstraints on magma mixing and heterogeneity from correlation of compositional zoning in Plagioclase.鈥� (Prof. George Bergantz).