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August 5, 2004

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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY


ADAI Grants available
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., Oct. 15. Questions concerning the application process or suitability of a potential project should be directed to the Institute. 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

English Language Courses

The UW English Language Programs (UWELP) offers quarterly online and on-site courses designed primarily for non-native speakers of English.

Convenient online courses are available for UW employees who want to improve their sentence-level grammar and vocabulary in academic, business, or technical writing. All of the courses have online interactive exercises and short assignments to be completed each week. Instructors respond to assignments within two business days, giving detailed one-on-one feedback.

Evening and Saturday on-site courses focus on improving conversational skills, grammar, pronunciation, English in business presentations and written communications, and preparation for the TOEFL, TOEIC, and verbal parts of the GRE and GMAT. There are also daytime courses in reading, writing, grammar, speaking, listening, and vocabulary and idioms.

UWELP also customizes courses in English for the Workplace. Depending on the needs of your group, courses can be designed for such areas as pronunciation and fluency, assisting clients by telephone, presentation skills and the language of meetings, e-mail communication, and job-specific vocabulary and idioms.

For more information, call 206-543-6242 or e-mail uwelp@u.washington.edu  

UW Weekend Homestay
English Language Programs is looking for individuals and families to host Japanese university students for the Summer 2004 Weekend Homestay program. Volunteers host one or two Japanese students for one weekend.

It’s an excellent opportunity to: give your family an enjoyable cross-cultural experience, learn about Japanese customs and beliefs, learn some Japanese words and phrases and make international friends. Give the homestay experience a short-term trial run.

Hosts are needed for the following weekends:

Aug. 6–8 Nihon Pharmacy University
Aug. 27–29 Tokyo University of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Sept. 3–6 International University of Kagoshima

Apply online today. http://depts.washington.edu/uwsp/homestay. Or, contact Josh Little or Mihaela Giurca: email: homestay@u.washington.edu, phone: 206-543-8933

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

General Examinations


  • Parveen Bhatti, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. noon Monday, Aug. 16. K069 Health Sciences. (Prof. Michael Yost).
  • Lei Chen, Microbiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. G324 Health Sciences. (Prof. Michael Katze).
  • Lydia E. Harris, Information School, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 330W Mary Gates. (Prof. Raya Fidel).
  • Julie S. Kotler, Psychology, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19. Conference Room, Guthrie Annex I. (Prof. Robert McMahon).
  • Lin Liao, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 303 Allen Center. (Profs. Dieter Fox and Henry Kautz).
  • Hatice D. Ozis, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 403 EE. (Prof. David Allstot).
  • Zahra Shajani, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 239 Chemistry. (Profs. Gary Drobny and Gabriele Varani).
  • Andrew James Whitaker, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 303 Allen Center. (Prof. Steve Gribble).
  • Aaron Cody Young, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Larry Sorensen).
  • Kathryn M. Zurek, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. David Kaplan).

Final Examinations


  • Roger Scott Armen, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. K069 Health Sciences. “Does Pauling and Corey’s alpha-pleated sheet structure define the prefibrillar amyloidogenic intermediate in Amyloid disease?” (Prof. Valerie Daggett).
  • Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 13. 401 Denny. “Desires and imaginaries: Transcultural “love” affairs in Guatemala.” (Prof. Miriam Kahn).
  • Jody Luisa Brauner, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. 203 Fisheries. “Incorporating uncertainty into freshwater habitat restoration.” (Prof. Ray Hilborn).
  • Wilson Kendrick Clements, Biochemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. K069 Health Sciences. “Beta-catenin interactions during early deveopment.” (Prof. David Kimelman).
  • Milan Diebel, Physics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Application of ab-initio calculations to modeling of nanoscale diffusion and activation in Si.” (Prof. Scott Dunham).
  • Robert Michael Farley, Political Science, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 40 Smith. “Transnational determinants of military doctrine.” (Prof. Jonathan Mercer).
  • John Clark Field, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, Aug. 10. 102 Fisheries. “Application of ecosystem-based fishery management approaches in the northern California current.” (Prof. Robert Francis).
  • Shohini Ghosh, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 102 Chemistry. “Analysis of binding interactions between peptides and the MHC Class II protein I-Ad.” (Prof. Craig Beeson).
  • Justin Toshiyuki Goshi, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 303 Allen Center. “Efficient and secure media delivery.” (Prof. Richard Ladner).
  • Jennifer Harris, Education, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. 112A Miller. “You will be listened to this time: The Seattle urban academy and the struggle to create a school-community partnership, 1968-71.” (Prof. Nancy Beadie).
  • Baekho Heo, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. 219A Mechanical Engineering. “Vibration reduction of rotating disk/spindle systems via structural design.” (Prof. I. Y. Shen).
  • Jeffrey Richard Hightower, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 503 Allen Center. “The location stack.” (Prof. Gaetano Borriello).
  • Mara L. Jeffress, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. K069 Health Sciences. “Identification of putative plasmodium falciparum mefloquine resistance genes.” (Prof. Stanley Fields).
  • Sungyop Kim, Urban Design and Planning Group, Ph.D. noon Friday, Aug. 13. 032 Communications. “Neighborhood residential location choice of the elderly: A study of the elderly in the Puget Sound region of Washington.” (Prof. Paul Waddell).
  • Andrei B. Kryjevski, Physics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 19. C421 Physics/Astronomy. “Aspects of the influence of quark masses on the dynamics of hadronic systems.” (Prof. David Kaplan).
  • John Charles Kucewicz, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. 201 Fisheries. “Tissue pulsatility imaging: Ultrasonic measurement of strain due to perfusion.” (Prof. Kirk Beach).
  • Yoonsun Lee, Education, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 112 Miller. “The impact of a multidimensional item on differential item functioning (DIF).” (Prof. Alan Klockars).
  • Jonathan David Levine, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. B526 Padelford. “”One wiser, better, dearer than ourselves”: Gothic friendship.” (Prof. Marshall Brown).
  • Wen-Chun Liao, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. T612 Health Sciences. “Effect of warm foot bathing on distal-proximal body temperature gradient, PSG sleep and perceived sleep quality in older adults with insomnia.” (Prof. Carol Landis).
  • Jeng-Weei Lin, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 104 Fluke. “Enhancement of user-experiences in immersive virtual environments that employ wide-field displays.” (Prof. Thomas Furness).
  • Khan W. Mahmud, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 19. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Mean field and correlated description of Bose-Einstein condensates.” (Prof. William Reinhardt).
  • Alexandra Nichifor, Mathematics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. C401 Padelford. “On elliptic curves with cyclic isogenies of degree p-square.” (Prof. Ralph Greenberg).
  • Taisuke Ohta, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 321 Roberts. “Heteroepitaxy of gallium-selenide on Si(100) and (111).” (Prof. Fumio Ohuchi).
  • Claudia Ann Olmstead, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16. 102T Miller. “How long is long enough? Fourth grade English language learners’ scores on a state’s test and lengths of stay.” (Prof. Eugene Edgar).
  • Heidi Gayle Parker, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Advancing canine genomics: From map building to population studies.” (Prof. Elaine Ostrander).
  • Sean Michael Robinson, Physics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “A lower bound for the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background emission.” (Prof. Toby Burnett).
  • Virginia Elisabeth Rutter, Sociology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. 110C Savery. “The case for divorce: Under what conditions is divorce beneficial and for whom?” (Prof. Pepper Schwartz).
  • Jonathan Scott Schildcrout, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16. F348 Health Sciences. “Marginal modeling of longitudinal, binary response data: Semiparametric and parametric estimation with long response series and an efficient outcome dependent sampling design.” (Prof. Patrick Heagerty).
  • Shengli Shi, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. Room 2232, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA. “Effects of enhanced glutathione biosynthesis on oxidative stress mediated hepatocellular injury and gene expression in mice.” (Prof. Terrance Kavanagh).
  • Amanda E. Moses Sinha, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6. 102 Chemistry. “Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry with chemometric analysis.” (Prof. Robert Synovec).
  • Nicole Anna Smythe, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 9. 102 Chemistry. “Reactivity studies of platinum (IV) hydroxide and methoxide complexes and the study of pincer palladium (II) complexes as potential catalysts for olefin epoxidation.” (Prof. Karen Goldberg).
  • Bethany Ann Staggemeier, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 102 Chemistry. “Dynamic surface tension detection: Novel applications to continuous flow analysis and interfacial analysis.” (Prof. Robert Synovec).
  • Christine Ann Stevens, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. T404 Health Sciences. “Images and voices: Adolescent mothers negotiating socioeconomic environments and health.” (Prof. Marcia Killien).
  • Bert D. Stover, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. H670 Health Sciences. “Validation and evaluation of a disability measure for upper extremity musculoskeletal disorder screening in the workplace and prognostic factors of long-term disability.” (Prof. Thomas Wickizer).
  • Lisa Rey Thomas, Psychology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10. 120 Guthrie Annex III. “The influence of significant relationships on sobriety decisions and sobriety processes for Tlingit and Haida people in southeast Alaska.” (Prof. G. Alan Marlatt.)
  • Michael J. Witgen, History, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. 320 Smith. “An infinity of nations: How Indians, empires, and western migration shaped national identity in North America.” (Profs. Richard Johnson and Richard White).
  • Jessica Maria Yellin, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. noon Wednesday, Aug. 11. 259 Mechanical Engineering. “An analysis of one-dimensional passive stand-off layer damping treatments.” (Prof. I. Y. (Steve) Shen).
  • Hossein Zarei, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. 403 EE1. “RF variable phase shifter for multiple-antenna receiver.” (Prof. David Allstot).
  • Naomi Marie Zavislak, Psychology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18. 211 Guthrie. “The influence of similarity on perceptions of risk for negative outcomes: Two laboratory experiments and a field investigation of breast cancer survivors.” (Profs. Deborah Bowen and Yuichi Shoda).