Grad Slam 2016 Semifinal Round Schedule
ROUND 1 — People's Choice (Winners)
Mon Apr 11 | 11a-12p
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Abel Gustafson | Communication
Good Intentions, Bad Effects: Cumulative Advantage in Science Communication
Curt Nehrkorn | Physics
Mining for Dark Matter
David Hwang | Materials
LEDs: Enablers of the Future
Ester Trujillo | Chicana & Chicano Studies
Understanding U.S. Salvadoran Ethnic Identity
Fang He | History
'Golden Lilies' across the Pacific: American Imagination of Footbinding and the Shaping of Immigration Inspection
Joseph Palazzo | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Waste Opportunities: The Real Reason to Recycle
JV Decemvirale | History of Art & Architecture
Knowing Your Place and Making Do: Radical Arts Organizing in Black and Latino Los Angeles, 1960 to Present
Mallorie Chase | History of Art & Architecture
Paper Thrones and Unruly Urbanism in Modern Lisbon
Nicole Leung | Biomolecular Science & Engineering
Lighting the Path from the Eye to the Brain
Sarah Neace | Global Studies
Religious Violence in Brazil: The Rise of Militant Pentecostalism and Implications for Afro-Brazilian Religions
ROUND 2 (Winners)
Tue Apr 12 | 3-4p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Amanda Kautzman | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Building a Retina from the Genome Up
Brett Carpenter | Technology Management
Data Science, Decision Architecture, Drought!
Elizabeth Hiroyasu | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Fun Facts about Wild Pigs and Why We Should Care about Them
Gokh Amin | Global Studies
Seven Years, Three Yemens: The Empowerment and Disenfranchisement of Yemeni Women Between 1989 and 1995
Joshua Kuntzman | Education
Educational Dialogs: Uncovering the Foundation for School Reforms
Katherine Millage | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Fishing for Benefits: Seafood Certifications in Small-Scale Fisheries
Nathan Prisco | Chemical Engineering
Pozzolanic Cement: A Blast from the Past
Nissa Cannon | English
An Expatriate by Any Other Name
Phillip Rogers | Linguistics
Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
Rohan Bhandari | Physics
Searching for the Universe: Particle Physics in One Sentence
Savannah Dearden | Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Sparkling Sea-Slug Photonics: The Discovery of Nanoscopic Multi-Layer Reflectors in F. Iodinea
ROUND 3 (Winners)
Wed Apr 13 | 11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001
Celeste Pilegard | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Achieving Meaningful Learning with Video Games
Chad Spensky | Computer Science
Single Device Authentication
Dara Seidl | Geography
Where You At? Protecting Privacy through Location Masking
Geoff Willard | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Where're Wolves?: Mapping Wolf Habitat and Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots in California
Isabel Ochoa | Global Studies
A Failed Mexican State? Challenging the Oversimplified Narrative of Mexico's Drug War
Jeffrey Hunger | Psychological & Brain Sciences
The Notorious B.M.I.
Jesilyn Faust | Global Studies
Challenging Global Responses to Violence Against Women: The case of Amina al Falali
Kendall Mills | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
The Market Value of Non-Market Goods: Conservation of Endangered Whale Species in the Santa Barbara Channel
Sara Weinstein | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Worms in Raccoons: Worms in You?
Stephanie Karba | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Microfiber Pollution and the Apparel Industry
Will Summers | Materials
Designing New Materials for Jet Engines
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