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May 20, 2004

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GENERAL 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 543-6242 or e-mail uwelp@u.washington.edu.

Rental Housing Service
The Visiting Faculty Housing Service in Cunningham Hall is a clearinghouse for short or long term rental housing for new and visiting UW faculty and staff. Listings include apartments, condos, rooms in private homes, houseboats and one to five bedroom homes, furnished and unfurnished. VFHS “Housing Wanted” forms are e-mailed to all corners of the world. The all-volunteer staff has been providing this service for UW since 1985. Donations given by those listing housing are applied to scholarships for University undergraduate students. To make the arrival of newcomers to your department or office just that much easier, contact the VFHS at Cunningham Hall Room 213 (across from the old Architecture Building), Box: 351380, 206-543-6252, vfhs@u.washington.edu. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday–Friday except holidays.


Research participants wanted
The Department of Environmental Health is seeking people with asthma, ages 18-50, 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
Monday, May 24 from 11 am to 2 p.m. and 2:45 to 5 p.m. in McMahon Hall, Pompeii Room.

Tuesday, June 1 from 10 am to 12:30 p.m. and 1:15 to 4 p.m. in the bus in front of William H. Gates Hall.


DEGREE EXAMS

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

General Examinations


  • Jonathan M. Acuff, Political Science, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 3. 1B Gowen. (Prof. Karen Litfin).
  • Mark Allen Adrian, Music, D.M.A. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 213 Music. (Prof. Abraham Kaplan).
  • Byoung-Inn Bai, Political Science, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 40A Smith. (Prof. James Caporaso).
  • Ryan Michael Bonn, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27. 102 Chemistry. (Prof. Norman Dovichi).
  • Theresa Vivian Bullard, Physics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Marjorie Olmstead).
  • Stephanie Marie Carlson, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 106 Fisheries. (Prof. Thomas Quinn).
  • Yan Chen, Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 28. 134 Chemistry Library. (Prof. Jaromir Ruzicka).
  • Chang-Su Choe, Law, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 433 William Gates. (Prof. Veronica Taylor).
  • Moon-Jin Choi, Education, Ph.D. noon Wednesday, June 2. 112A Miller. (Prof. Sheila Valencia).
  • Kacey Anne Claborn, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 25. 339 Chemistry. (Prof. Bart Kahr).
  • Colleen F. Craig, Chemistry, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 319 Bagley. (Prof. Oleg Prezhdo).
  • Thy P. Do, Pharmacy – School of, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 27. H371 HSC. (Prof. Jacqueline Gardner).
  • Renee Marie Drellishak, Education, Ed.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 25. 340 Gerberding. (Prof. Steven Olswang).
  • Manu Forero, Physics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 21. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Viola Vogel).
  • Scott L. Gable, Chemistry, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 239 Chemistry. (Prof. Natia Frank).
  • Victor M. Gehman, Physics, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Steve Elliott).
  • Kellie D. Holzer, English, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Richard Dunn).
  • Holly Elizabeth Janes, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, May 24. F643 Health Sciences. (Prof. Margaret Pepe).
  • Natalya V. Kalendarev, Music, D.M.A. 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 24. Fishbowl, Music. (Prof. Robin McCabe).
  • Intae Kang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, June 3. 503 Allen Center. (Prof. Radha Poovendran).
  • Roman Kosoy, Immunology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, May 27. H562 Health Sciences. (Prof. Patrick Concannon).
  • Brian A. Kudlow, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, May 21. J375 Health Sciences. (Prof. Brian Kennedy).
  • Jennifer Lynn Lavy, Drama, Ph.D. 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 3. 150 Hutchinson. (Prof. Herbert Blau).
  • Heeyoung Lee, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. T529 Health Sciences. (Prof. Karen Schepp).
  • Kate Elizabeth Marshall, Political Science, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 1B Gowen. (Profs. Christine Ingebritsen and Karen Litfin).
  • Michelle L. McGowan, Women Studies, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27. B110G Padelford. (Prof. Nancy Kenney).
  • Dawn B. Neill, Anthropology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 25. 402 Denny. (Prof. Donna Leonetti).  Ivonne Ortiz, Aquatic and Fishery Sci-ences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, June 3. 329 Fishery Sciences. (Prof. Robert Francis).
  • Fernanda X. Oyarzun, Zoology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, May 28. A023D Kincaid. (Profs. Jennifer Ruesink and Richard Strathman).
  • Hyo Jung Park, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. T612 Health Sciences. (Prof. Margaret Heitkemper).
  • Dinesh G. Patel, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 319 Bagley. (Prof. Natia Frank).
  • Beate Peter, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 24. 52 Social Work. (Prof. Carol Stoel-Gammon).
  • Porranee Rattanaviwatpong, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 28. 510 Ocean Sciences. (Prof. G. Graham Allan).
  • Karen E. Rosenberg, Women Studies, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. B110G Padelford. (Prof. Judith Howard).
  • Marcel A. Rousseau, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 28. 222 Miller. (Prof. Nancy Beadie).
  • Sonia Savelli, Psychology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 202C Chemistry Library. (Prof. John Miyamoto).
  • Akshay Sharma, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, June 3. M306 EE1. (Prof. Scott Hauck).
  • Andrew Shinn, Political Science, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. 40A Smith. (Prof. Stephen Hanson).
  • Eric Earl Smith, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. J182 Health Sciences. (Prof. Maynard Olson).
  • Yoshinari Takimoto, Physics, Ph.D. noon Thursday, June 3. C520 Physics Astronomy. (Prof. John Rehr).
  • Zack D. Treisman, Mathematics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 28. 235 Thomson. (Prof. Sandor Kovacs).
  • Andre Paul Walker-Loud, Physics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. C520 Physics/Astronomy. (Prof. Martin Savage).
  • Maureen Patricia West, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 24. T513 Health Sciences. (Prof. David Allen).
  • George W. N. White, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. I-142 Health Sciences. (Prof. Valerie Daggett).
  • Kara A. Whittaker, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 201 Winkenwerder. (Prof. John Marzluff).
  • Rachel L. Winer, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 21. Suite 300, 1914 N 34th Street, Seattle. (Prof. Laura Koutsky).
  • Caroline H. Yang, English, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 24. A101C Padelford. (Prof. Caroline Simpson).
  • Alexander P. Yates, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 678 Allen Center. (Prof. Oren Etzioni).

Final Examinations


  • Jonathan Austin Adams, Physics, Ph.D. noon Tuesday, May 25. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “A surface and interface study of aluminum selenide on silicon: Heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of thin films.” (Prof. Marjorie Olmstead).
  • Francisco Alvarez, Economics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, May 27. 302 Savery. “Essays on growth under alternative preference specifications.” (Prof. Stephen Turnovsky).
  • Stuart V. Aque, Asian Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. M230 Gowen. “Pi xirui and Jingxue lishi.” (Prof. David Knechtges).
  • Eduardo J. Armijo, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. 411 Miller. “Head start performance standards and their relationship to key early head start program aims.” (Prof. Joseph Stowitschek).
  • Sarah Ellen Bahauddin, Music, D.M.A. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. Fishbowl, Music. “Mpingo and woodwind instrument making: Does it have a future?” (Prof. Felix Skowronek).
  • Fadoua Balabdaoui, Statistics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, May 24. C301 Padelford. “Nonparametric estimation of a k-monotone density: A new asymptotic distribution theory.” (Prof. Jon Wellner).
  • Alexey Igorevich Balabin, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. 601D Condon. “A cluster approximation for configurational statistical mechanics of mixed crystals.” (Profs. Ian McCallum and Richard Sack).
  • Ori Belkind, Philosophy, Ph.D. noon Thursday, May 27. 345B Savery. “Physical systems: Conceptual pathways between space time and matter.” (Prof. Arthur Fine).
  • Dean William Bennett, History, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. 320 Smith. “Gothic justice: Sweden’s myth of national origin and the rhetoric of legitimacy, legality, and liberation, 1598-1632.” (Prof. Mary O’Neil).
  • Kumiko Tanya Boike, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ph.D. 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. 212 Parrington. “Influence of age on recognition of amplitude compressed speech in backgrounds varying in temporal complexity.” (Prof. Pamela Souza).
  • Jeremy Ryan Briggs-Roberts, Music, D.M.A. 2 p.m. Friday, May 28. Fishbowl, Music. “The influence of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the creative process of Ludwig van Beethoven: A cross-genre investigation.” (Prof. Peter Eros).
  • Randall Alan Cantrell, Forest Resources, Ph.D. 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 22 Anderson. “An innovation and performance analysis of an underutilized resource: The adoption-diffusion process for small diameter roundwood (SDR).” (Prof. Dorothy Paun).
  • Tamre P. Cardoso, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 21. 287 Mary Gates. “A hierarchical Bayes model for combining precipitation measurements from different sources.” (Profs. Peter Guttorp and Paul Sampson)
  • Michelle Chang, Music, D.M.A. 9:30 a.m. Thursday, May 27. 206 Music. “The influence of Jean Paul Richter’s novel, Die Flegeljahre on Robert Schumann’s piano cycles: Papillons, carnaval, and Davids bundlertanee.” (Prof. Craig Sheppard).
  • Chia-Chen Chen, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 24. T605 Health Sciences. “What do we know about adolescent risky sexual behavior: A multi-level environmental approach.” (Prof. Elaine Adams Thompson).
  • Chia-Ping Chen, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. M406 EE1. “Noise robustness and automatic speech recognition.” (Prof. Jeffrey Bilmes).
  • Jein-Shan Chen, Mathematics, Ph.D. noon Friday, May 21. 117 Loew. “Nonsmooth functions and merit functions for the second-order cone complementarity problem.” (Prof. Paul Tseng).
  • Belle Montgomery Chenault, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 411 Miller. “Effects of prior attention training and a composition curriculum with attention bridges for students with dyslexia and/or dys-graphia.” (Prof. Virginia Berninger).
  • Andrew Simpson Childs, Music, D.M.A. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. 101 Music. “The childrens hour: The thematic use of childhood in the songs of Charles Ives.” (Prof. Julian Patrick).
  • Yung-Yu Chuang, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 28. 203 Allen Center. “New models and methods for matting and compositing.” (Profs. Brian Curless and David Salesin).
  • Kristin Gates Cloyes, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, June 3. T513 Health Sciences. “The politics of mental illness in a prison control unit: A discourse analysis.” (Prof. David Allen).
  • Sean Fidalgo Cocco, History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 25. 320 Smith. “Vesuvius and Naples: The volcano and the culture of the early modern city, 1500-1700.” (Prof. Mary O’Neil).
  • Robin Jeanne Diangelo, Education, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 112A Miller. “Whiteness in racial dialogue: A discourse analysis.” (Prof. James Banks).
  • Claudiu V. Dimofte, Business Administration, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 305 Balmer. “Consumer response to polysemous marketing communications: The antecedents, measurement, and attitudinal consequences of slogan meaning access.” (Prof. Richard Yalch).
  • Mark Thomas Drangsholt, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. B220 Health Sciences. “Measurement of lifetime dental radiographic exposure to the cranial meninges.” (Prof. William Longstreth, Jr.).
  • Ann Elizabeth Edwards, Zoology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 21. K069 Health Sciences. “Proximate and ultimate constraints on breeding in seabirds.” (Prof. Dee Boersma).
  • Amon S. Emeka, Sociology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, May 28. 110C Savery. “New blacks, new whites and the new day: Intergenerational mobility among black and white immigrants in the post-civil rights era.” (Prof. Charles Hirschman).
  • Peder Erik Fitch, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. 259 Mechanical Engineering. “Design uncertainty modeling: A method for performing DFX analyses in complex product design.” (Prof. Joyce Smith Cooper).
  • Amy Michelle Gaffney, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, June 3. 331 Condon. “The role of oceanic lithosphere in inter- and intra-volcano geochemical heterogeneity at Maui Nui, Hawaii.” (Prof. Bruce Nelson).
  • Alexia Ann Giblin, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27. Miller. “Adolescent girls’ appearance conversations: Evaluation, pressure, and coping.” (Prof. Mary Lee Nelson).
  • Haiwei Guo, Pathology, Ph.D. 12:15 p.m. Friday, May 21. RR134 Health Sciences. “Directed evolution of the human DNA repair protein 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase.” (Prof. Lawrence Loeb).
  • Andrew Colton Haas, Physics, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, June 3. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “A search for neutral Higgs Bosons at high tan beta in multi-jet events from ppbar collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron.” (Prof. Gordon Watts).
  • Christopher Thomas Holcomb, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, June 3. Conference room, AERB. “Internal magnetic measurements of a sustained spheromak driven by a coaxial injector.” (Prof. Thomas Jarboe).
  • J Johanna Hopp, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Friday, May 21. G424 Health Sciences. “Localizing adaptation in the human saccadic system.” (Prof. Albert Fuchs).
  • Cheng-Fang Huang, Education, Ed.D. 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. 423A Miller. “Scaffolding sight vocabulary acquisition for children with Autism using computer-assisted instruction.” (Prof. Philip Bell).
  • Kristen Kathryn Intemann, Philosophy, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 331A Savery. “Should science be value-free? Rethinking the role of ethical and political values in the justification of scientific theories.” (Profs. Jean Roberts and Andrea Woody).
  • Curtis Neal James, Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 21. 118 Physics/Astronomy. “Radar observations of orographic precipitation.” (Prof. Robert Houze).
  • Tiffany Christine Kaspar, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27. 303 Electrical Engineering. “Materials and magnetic studies of cobalt-doped anatase titanium dioxide and perovskite strontium titanate as potential dilute magnetic semiconductors.” (Prof. Eric Stuve).
  • Hyundae Kim, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. Conference room, AERB. “Study of a light-gas gun for launching transient internal probes.” (Prof. Thomas Jarboe).
  • Anne Austin Latowsky, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 26. B-202 Padelford. “Imaginative possession: Charlemagne and the east from Einhard to the voyage of Charlemagne.” (Prof. Eugene Vance).
  • Gregory Stephan Lee, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. 105 Allen Center. “Low power haptic devices: Ramifications on perception and device design.” (Prof. Blake Hannaford).
  • Ho Jin Lee, Economics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 302 Savery. “Essays on long-horizon stock return predictability.” (Prof. Eric Zivot).
  • Lih Wei Lei, Education, Ph.D. 7:15 a.m. Thursday, June 3. 112A Miller. “Evaluation of computer-assisted instruction in histology.” (Prof. William Winn).
  • Susannah Vera Levi, Linguistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. 335 Thomson. “The representation of underlying glides: A cross-linguistic study.” (Prof. Ellen Kaisse).
  • Steven J. Limmer, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, May 28. 243 Wilcox. “Sol electrophoretic growth of oxide nano-structures: Synthesis, properties and modeling.” (Prof. Guozhong Cao).
  • Qiang Liu, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 303 EE1. “Available bandwidth estimation and rate-based congestion control in multimedia communication.” (Prof. Jenq-Neng Hwang).
  • Earl Eugene Martin, Education, Ed.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27. 112A Miller. “An analysis of staffing issues related to counselors and advisors in Washington State Community and technical system.” (Prof. Edward Taylor).
  • David Aquilla Maxwell, Mathematics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. 301 BLM. “Initial data for black holes and rough spacetimes.” (Prof. Daniel Pollack).
  • Michael Matthew Mazur, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, May 24. 203 Fisheries Sciences. “Linking visual foraging with temporal prey distributions to model trophic interactions in Lake Washington.” (Prof. David Beauchamp).
  • Joshua Kelly McBee, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 102 Chemistry. “Studies of the isomerization of retinoids in the vertebrate retina.” (Prof. Krzysztof Palczewski).
  • Kimberly Ann McKearnan, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. T406 Health Sciences. “Chronic pain in youths with physical disabilities.” (Prof. Gail Kieckhefer).
  • Sarah Busby McKinney, Physics, Ph.D. noon Monday, May 24. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Dynamics of bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices.” (Prof. William Reinhardt).
  • Susan Kim Mosborg, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 21. 216 Miller. “Bridging past and present: How young people use history in reading the daily news.” (Prof. Sam Wineburg).
  • Ala Moshiri, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. G522 Health Sciences. “Sonic hedgehog in the vertebrate retina.” (Prof. Thomas Reh).
  • Stephen Thomas Muench, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27. 119 More. “A computer-based multimedia pavement training concept for use in a self-managed learning program for engineers.” (Prof. Joe Mahoney).
  • Lien Thuy Ngo, Chemistry, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 339 Chemistry. “Sintering and reactivity of oxide-supported metal particles as model catalysts.” (Prof. Charles Campbell).
  • Elena Brit Olsen, English, Ph.D. 03:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. A101C Padelford. “”Alone I climb the craggy steep”: Literary ambition and metaphysical identity in eighteenth-century women’s poetry.” (Prof. Thomas Lockwood).
  • Jong-Jin Park, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 21. 134 Mechanical Engineering. “Design of a new arrayed temperature sensor system and thermal interface materials.” (Prof. Minoru Taya).
  • Richard Erwin Person, Pathology, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. K069 Health Sciences. “Mislocal-ization of neutrophil elastase is the major cause of inherited neutropenia.” (Prof. Marshall Horwitz).
  • Hassna Rehman Ramay, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. 321 Roberts. “Scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.” (Prof. Miqin Zhang).
  • Meredith Adrienne Reitman, Geography, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. 412A Smith. “Race in the high-tech workplace: Whiteness, belonging and meritocracy.” (Prof. Mark Ellis).
  • Matthew Ray Richardson, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. 303 Allen Center. “Learning and inference in collective knowledge bases.” (Prof. Pedro Domingos).
  • Denise Lynn Schilling, Education, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, June 3. 411 Miller. “Examining alternative seating devices for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Effects on classroom behavior.” (Prof. Ilene Schwartz).
  • Helen May Schneider, History, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 25. 403 Thomson. “Keeping the nation’s house: Domesticity and home economics education in Republican China.” (Prof. R. Kent Guy).
  • Alyson Elizabeth Fearnley Shapiro, Psychology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. 211 Guthrie. “Examining relationships between the marriage, mother-father-baby interactions and infant emotion regulation.” (Prof. John Gottman).
  • Scott Eric Sills, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, May 27. 115 Benson. “Interfacial nanorheology: From molecular relaxations to heterogeneous dynamics in mesoscopic polymer systems.” (Prof. Rene Overney).
  • Jana Dee Strasburg, Physics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, May 21. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Characterization of avalanche photodiode arrays for temporally resolved photon counting.” (Prof. Christopher Stubbs).
  • Jason Richard Swanson, Mathematics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 3. C-401 Padelford. “Variations of stochastic processes: Alternative approaches.” (Prof. Krzysztof Burdzy).
  • Melvin P. Thatcher, History, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27. M261 Smith. “Kinship and government in Chu during the Spring and Autumn Era, 722-453 B.C.” (Prof. Patricia Ebrey).
  • Sudan A. Turner, Philosophy, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, May 21. 331A Savery. “Intrinsically semantic concepts and the intentionality of propositional attitudes.” (Prof. Laurence BonJour).
  • Sarah Louise Veatch, Physics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. C520 Physics/Astronomy. “Liquid immiscibility in model bilayer lipid membranes.” (Prof. Sarah Keller).
  • Lisa Ann Walter, Pharmacology, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. T435 Health Sciences. “Cannabinoid signaling in glia” (Prof. Nephi Stella).
  • Bo Wan, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. 403 Electrical Engineering. “MCAST: Automatic device modeling in model compiler for efficient and accurate circuit simulation.” (Prof. Richard Shi).
  • Kerwin Wang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, May 25. 108 Allen Center. “Micro-optical components for a MEMS integrated display.” (Prof. Karl Bohringer).
  • Min Wang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 24. 403 EE1. “Network-based detection and diagnostics of power quality problems.” (Prof. Alexander Mamishev).
  • Renee Louise Watling, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. BB938 Health Sciences. “The effect of sensory integration intervention on the engagement and behavior of young children with autism spectrum disorders.” (Prof. Felix Billingsley).
  • Lisa Marie Wiester, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, May 28. 102 Chemistry. “Integrin-matrix interactions of heart valve interstitial cells.” (Prof. Cecilia Giachelli).
  • Katie A. Witkiewitz, Psychology, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, June 3. 120 Guthrie Annex 3. “Predicting alcohol relapse using nonlinear dynamics and growth mixture modeling.” (Prof. G. Alan Marlatt).
  • Daniel Niklas Wood, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 21. 503 Allen Center. “Surface light fields for 3-D photography.” (Prof. Brian Curless).
  • Chia-Shan Yang, Music, D.M.A. 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 28. 204 Music. “Contemporary piano music introducing new techniques to intermediate-grade students.” (Prof. Patricia Michaelian).