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August 19, 2004

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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Seed Grant Call for proposals
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants for the year 2004-5. The program provides funding for promising research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences. The goal is to stimulate scholarly initiative by encouraging faculty to explore new directions in research and scholarship that contribute at the cutting edge to the development of statistical methods for social scientific problems. Although we encourage collaborative research across disciplines, particularly between statisticians and social scientists, such collaboration is not a formal requirement of the program. We are particularly interested in projects that show a high probability of leading to extramural funding. Thus, the funds will typically be used to pursue pilot studies, feasibility studies, or preliminary research that initiate additional research. A subsequent extramural grant that derives from seed grant funding would be administered through CSSS. Awards will be in the range of $10,000–$20,000 and typically include one-month summary salary for a PI and one quarter salary for a research assistant. In the past, proposals have had a high rate of funding.

Eligibility: Faculty holding the following ranks at the time of the award are eligible to apply: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, research professor, research associate professor, and research assistant professor. Faculty with acting appointments also may be eligible. Faculty who have received a CSSS award as PIs are ineligible to receive another until three years following the termination of the first. A PI may submit only one proposal per round. Co-PIs may submit more than one proposal, but no more than one of the proposals will be funded. A proposal that is not funded may be resubmitted in a later round only if it is substantially revised or if the review committee recommends resubmission.


Research Project Requirements: Research projects must use statistical methods to address a social scientific problem. Strong proposals will use innovative statistical methods to address cutting-edge social scientific research questions. Collaborative interdisciplinary research such as between a social scientist and a statistician is encouraged but not required. All personnel funded by the grant are expected to participate regularly in the CSSS Seminar Series by attending and by giving at least one seminar on the project topic. The proposal should indicate which member(s) of the research team will be the primary seminar participant(s).

External Support: Proposals that show promise for future extramural funding will be given preference. Indeed, PIs who plan to submit an extramural grant proposal based on their Seed Grant proposed project can increase their chances of receiving a Seed Grant Award by guaranteeing that they will submit an extramural proposal through CSSS immediately after the funding period. In such cases, the review committee may grant awards conditional on the PI submitting an external grant within a year of the funding period. In general, support will not be given merely to extend or supplement existing funded research projects. Instead, proposals should seek to initiate new research ideas. An extramural proposal that derives from a project funded by the Seed Grants Program is expected to be administered through CSSS.

Application Form: A cover page and detailed instructions for preparing the four-page proposal can be found on the CSSS web site: http://www.csss.washington.edu/SeedGrants/.

Deadline: The deadline for CSSS Seed Grant proposals is October 25. Awards will be announced by December 15. Submit proposals to Nick Ganoulis, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, C 23 Padelford Hall, University of Washington, Box 354320, Seattle, WA 98195.

Questions: Questions on preparing a proposal should be addressed to: Professor Ross L. Matsueda, Associate Director of CSSS, Department of Sociology, Box 353340, 616-2432, matsueda@u.washington.edu.

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 5:00 p.m., October 15. Questions concerning the application process or suitability of a potential project should be directed to the Institute at 543-0937. Application guidelines are available on the ADAI website at http://depts.washington.edu/adai or by calling ADAI at 206-543-0937.


OTHER NEWS


Fluent English speakers needed
Volunteers are needed for both in-class and one-on-one language exchanges with international students in the English Language Programs department. For additional information and to apply online go to www.uwelp.net under “Language Exchange Program.”

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 make international friends give the homestay experience a short-term trial run

Hosts are needed for the following weekends:

Aug 27–29 Tokyo University of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Sept 3–6 International University of Kagoshima

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


Blood drives
Friday, August 27 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.

Friday, September 10 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.

Friday, September 24 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby.


DEGREE EXAMS

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

General Examinations


  • Unmin Bae, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25. 403 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Yongmin Kim).
  • Federico D. Brown, Zoology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28. 502 Kincaid. (Prof. Billie Swalla).
  • Bhavna Hirji Chohan, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20. A2M-025 FHCRC. (Prof. Julie Overbaugh).
  • Mari Leah DeMarco, Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. I-142 Health Sciences. (Prof. Valerie Daggett).
  • Ann M. Derleth, Public Health and Community Medicine – Health Services, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. H670 Health Sciences. (Prof. Paula Diehr).
  • Karen Bobbitt Gran, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1. 311 Condon. (Prof. David Montgomery).
  • Linda Hurley Ishem, Social Work, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8. 116 Social Work. (Prof. Susan Kemp).
  • Leah R. Jager, Statistics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25. C301 Padelford. (Prof. Jon Wellner).
  • Bryce E. Mansfield, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25. E216 Health Sciences. (Prof. Nancy Freitag).
  • Robert Jr Ochoa, Psychology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31. 120 Guthrie Annex III. (Prof. Robert McMahon).
  • Amanda Barrett Poole, Anthropology, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. 401 Denny. (Profs. K. Sivaramakrishnan & B. Shell-Duncan).
  • Federico A. Prado, Zoology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28. 502 Kincaid. (Prof. John Wingfield).
  • Stephen Frederick Price, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31. 154 Atmospheric Sciences/Geophysics. (Prof. Howard Conway).
  • Patrick Shane Jr Thomas, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. RR134 Health Sciences. (Prof. Albert La Spada).
  • Jonathan T. Ting, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13. T635 Health Sciences. (Prof. Jane Sullivan).
  • Karen Elizabeth Toth, Psychology, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16. 454 CHDD. (Prof. Geraldine Dawson).
  • Ismail B. Tutar, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25. 303 Electrical Engineering. (Prof. Yongmin Kim).
  • Hua Wang, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. 109 Benson. (Prof. Shaoyi Jiang).
  • Eva Y. Wong, Public Health and Community Medicine – Epidemiology, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27. F348 Health Sciences. (Prof.Harvey Checkoway).

Final Examinations


  • Tracy Lee Bergemann, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9. F600 Health Sciences. “Image analysis and signal extraction from cDNA microarrays.” (Prof. Lue Ping Zhao).
  • Sandra L. Caldwell, Education, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20. 365 CD. “Predicting 36 month child aggression from the context, risk, child, and family management variables.” (Prof. Eugene Edgar).
  • David Alan Canfield-Budde, Germanics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24. 308 Denny. “Sacred and seductive space: The problem of domesticity in Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre”.” (Prof. Jane Brown).
  • Lisa Ann Gilbert, Oceanography, Ph.D. 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30. 123 Marine Sciences. “Shallow crustal structure of axial seamount: Geophysical inversions and marine and submarine gravity observations.” (Prof. Russell McDuff).
  • Michael William Halter, Bioengineering, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. 339 Chemistry. “Lipid bilayers as model biomenbrane systems to functionalize biomaterial surfaces and control macrophage behavior.” (Prof. Viola Vogel).
  • Erin Gail Harper, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 12 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC. “Adhesion to laminin 5 suppresses p38 map kinase and ATF3 in leading keratinocytes of epidermal wounds.” (Prof. William Carter).
  • Richard Douglas Heyman, Geography, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24. 409 Smith. “Locating civil society: Knowledge, pedagogy and the production of public space.” (Prof. Matthew Sparke).
  • Tamaki Maeda, Art History, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28. 311 Art. “”Tomioka Tessai and the Remaking of Sino-Japanese Traditions.”” (Prof. Cynthea Bogel).
  • Marie Michelle Martin, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25. T478 Health Sciences. “Comparison of three methods of breath sampling for biological monitoring of volatile organic chemicals.” (Prof. Michael Morgan).
  • Mark Eugene Mazurek, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 23. G417 Health Sciences. “Neural mechanisms for combining information in a visual discrimination task.” (Prof. Michael Shadlen).
  • Joshua John McElwee, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. J280 Health Sciences. “A comparative analysis of transcriptional alterations in long-lived insulin/IGF-1-like signaling mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster.” (Prof. James Thomas).
  • David Alexander McFarlane, Education, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20. 222 Miller. “Counselor educator dialogues on preparation for LGB clients.” (Prof. Jerald Forster).