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2015 Grad Slam Champion

Daniel Hieber

Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language

2015 Grad Slam Runners-up

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Abel Gustafson

Communication

Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia
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Jessica Perkins

Environmental Science & Management

Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem

2015 Grad Slam Finalists

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Sarah Abdul-Wajid

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Using Sea Squirts to Find New Genetic Factors Controlling Birth Defects
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David Copp

Mechanical Engineering

Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas
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Selvi Ersoy

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics
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Matthew Gebbie

Materials

Simplifying Nature's Invention: Engineering Mussel Proteins into Biomedical Glues
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Abel Gustafson

Communication

Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia
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Daniel Hieber

Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language
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Lakshmanan Nataraj

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Photographing Computer Programs to Identify Malicious Software
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Jessica Perkins

Environmental Science & Management

Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem
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Erik Spickard

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Gonads to Guts: Reprogramming an Organ in the Nematode C. elegans
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Wencheng Yan

Art History

Writing Modernity: Constructing a History of Chinese Architecture, 1920 - 1949

2015 Grad Slam Semifinalists

Sarah Abdul-Wajid

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Using Sea Squirts to Find New Genetic Factors Controlling Birth Defects

Jamie Booth

Mechanical Engineering

Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Materials

Ty Brandt

Environmental Science & Management

Why Study Snow from the Beach?

David Copp

Mechanical Engineering

Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas

Selvi Ersoy

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics

Alexa Fredston-Hermann

Environmental Science & Management

A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Relative Impact of Nitrogen Runoff on Coastal Ecosystems

Aileen Fullchange

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The HEROES Project

Matthew Gebbie

Materials

Simplifying Nature's Invention: Engineering Mussel Proteins into Biomedical Glues

Abel Gustafson

Communication

Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia

Daniel Hieber

Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language

Umihiko Hoshijima

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Kelp Forests on Acid: Local Climate Change Mitigation in a Changing Ocean

Brian Hoskins

Materials

Synaptic Engineering

Richard Huskey

Communication

Using Brains to Change Minds

Joshua Kuntzman

Education

Do You See Why I Love This Subject?: Educational Dialog and the Importance of Real Human Teachers

Sabrina Liu

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The Power of Hope: First Year Students' Adjustment to College Amidst Tragedy

Ian McCullough

Environmental Science & Management

A Last Stand? Will California's Ponderosa Pine Forests Survive Climate Change?

Lakshmanan Nataraj

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Photographing Computer Programs to Identify Malicious Software

Jessica Perkins

Environmental Science & Management

Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem

Celeste Pilegard

What Can We Learn From Video Games?

Laura Reynolds

Earth Science

Memories in Mud: How Marshes Tell Us about Past, Present, and Future Sea-Level Change

Ashley Sanford

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The Science of Meaning-Making

Erik Spickard

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Gonads to Guts: Reprogramming an Organ in the Nematode C. elegans

Ken Sterling

Education

Imagine a Reality TV Show with a Boss Handing a Scan-Tron Form to an Employee

Mary Toothman

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

In the Water or in the Genes? What Makes an Infectious Disease Deadly (or Not)?

Wencheng Yan

Art History

Writing Modernity: Constructing a History of Chinese Architecture, 1920 - 1949

2015 Grad Slam Presenters

Sarah Abdul-Wajid

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Using Sea Squirts to Find New Genetic Factors Controlling Birth Defects

Aubrie Adams

Communication

Adaptation in T3xt Communication

Andrea Adams

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Solving the Mystery of Southern California's Vanishing Frogs: Looking to the Past for Evidence of Disease

Melissa Alcorn

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Big Data, Tiny Worm: Building a Practical Model for Personalized Medicine

Anish Bhattacharjya

Chemistry

Generating and Using Aryl Grignard Reagents in Water, ONLY Water

Jamie Booth

Mechanical Engineering

Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Materials

Ty Brandt

Environmental Science & Management

Why Study Snow from the Beach?

David Copp

Mechanical Engineering

Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas

Taylor Damiani

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

Grit: The Hidden Quality That Makes Winners Succeed

Selvi Ersoy

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics

Alexa Fredston-Hermann

Environmental Science & Management

A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Relative Impact of Nitrogen Runoff on Coastal Ecosystems

Aileen Fullchange

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The HEROES Project

Mario Galicia

Education

'Pushed Out' and 'Pulled In': Institutional Bridging for Marginalized Students

Ana Elisa Garcia-Vedrenne

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Snail Parasites and Warrior Worms

Casey Garrett

Environmental Science & Management

Water Matters: Evaluating Water-Related Risk in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Matthew Gebbie

Materials

Simplifying Nature's Invention: Engineering Mussel Proteins into Biomedical Glues

Abel Gustafson

Communication

Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia

Patrick Hall

A California Language You Should Know About

Daniel Hieber

Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language

Oree Holban

Art

The Big MM: Transgender Sensations, Transportation, and the Poetry of Limbo

Umihiko Hoshijima

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Kelp Forests on Acid: Local Climate Change Mitigation in a Changing Ocean

Brian Hoskins

Materials

Synaptic Engineering

Richard Huskey

Communication

Using Brains to Change Minds

Erika I-Tremblay

Education

Literacy in Japanese Higher Education

Andrew Johnson

Political Science

Hegel's Polizei: Between Security and Welfare

S.C. Kaplan

'Apprendre et Endoctriner': Women Teaching Women in 15th-Century France

Adam Klein

Illuminating the Circuitry of Addiction

Haddy Kreie

Theater & Dance

Is Blackness Trauma?: Racial Discourse, Trauma Theory, and Vodun Aesthetics

Joshua Kuntzman

Education

Do You See Why I Love This Subject?: Educational Dialog and the Importance of Real Human Teachers

Tanika Ladd

Marine Science

The Ocean's Chalk Factory - How Microscopic Plants Control the Earth's Carbon Cycle

Nicole Lesperance

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Preventing Hardware Trojan Horses

Rachel Levinson-Emley

English

Bleeding to Heal: Wounds and Intersubjectivity from Medieval Romance to Today

Lily Li

Mechanical Engineering

Enhance Mass Sensing Using Nonlinearity

Sabrina Liu

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The Power of Hope: First Year Students' Adjustment to College Amidst Tragedy

Lisa McAllister

Anthropology

Who Reaps the Rewards and Who Pays the Costs of Adolescent Reproduction: Insights from the Bolivian Amazon

Ian McCullough

Environmental Science & Management

A Last Stand? Will California's Ponderosa Pine Forests Survive Climate Change?

Caleb Miller

Political Science

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Post-Democracy

Sungmin Moon

Education

Pizza, Pisa, PISA

Micaela Morgan

Education

Improving STEM Engagement of Students in the 2-Year to 4-Year Higher Education Pipeline

Lakshmanan Nataraj

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Photographing Computer Programs to Identify Malicious Software

Jessica Perkins

Environmental Science & Management

Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem

Hung Phan

Chemistry

Charge Transport in High-Mobility Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Jet-skiing or Hopping?

Celeste Pilegard

What Can We Learn From Video Games?

Kamala Qalandar

Mechanical Engineering

Small But Mighty: Energy Efficiency in Micromechanical Systems

Desmond Ramirez

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

'Seeing' Octopus Skin in the Light of Evolution

Laura Reynolds

Earth Science

Memories in Mud: How Marshes Tell Us about Past, Present, and Future Sea-Level Change

Zuleyma Rogel

Education

Latino Parents' Negotiation and Development of Letters to Their School Board on a Funding Priority

Ashley Sanford

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The Science of Meaning-Making

Heather Simpson

Remember These 3 to 5 Things: How the Rhythm and Pitch of the Voice Defines the Limits of Short-Term Memory

Lauren Smyth

Anthropology

Aspiring towards Greatness: (Re)Presenting Muslim Identity in the American Urban Environment

Erik Spickard

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Gonads to Guts: Reprogramming an Organ in the Nematode C. elegans

Ken Sterling

Education

Imagine a Reality TV Show with a Boss Handing a Scan-Tron Form to an Employee

Cameron Sublett

Education

Does Community College Online Course Enrollment Impair Student Success?

Mary Toothman

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

In the Water or in the Genes? What Makes an Infectious Disease Deadly (or Not)?

Faye Walker

Chemistry

The Uberification of Genetic Testing

Dibella Wdzenczny

I Can Chat Ya in Kamchatka

Emily Wilson

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Detecting Invasive Species Using Environmental DNA

Wencheng Yan

Art History

Writing Modernity: Constructing a History of Chinese Architecture, 1920 - 1949