Grad Slam 2015 Preliminary Round Schedule
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ROUND 1 (See Recap)
Mon Apr 6 | 11a-12p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Aubrie Adams | Communication
Adaptation in T3xt Communication
Alexa Fredston-Hermann | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Advanced to Semifinal Round
A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Relative Impact of Nitrogen Runoff on Coastal Ecosystems
Umihiko Hoshijima | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
Kelp Forests on Acid: Local Climate Change Mitigation in a Changing Ocean
Erika I-Tremblay | Education
Literacy in Japanese Higher Education
Hung Phan | Chemistry and Biochemistry
Charge Transport in High-Mobility Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Jet-skiing or Hopping?
Laura Reynolds | Earth Science
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Memories in Mud: How Marshes Tell Us about Past, Present, and Future Sea-Level Change
ROUND 2 (See Recap)
Mon Apr 6 | 3-4p
Elings Hall 1605
Sarah Abdul-Wajid | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Using Sea Squirts to Find New Genetic Factors Controlling Birth Defects
Aileen Fullchange | Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
The HEROES Project
Daniel Hieber | Linguistics
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language
Nicole Lesperance | Electrical & Computer Engineering
Preventing Hardware Trojan Horses
Lisa McAllister | Anthropology
Who Reaps the Rewards and Who Pays the Costs of Adolescent Reproduction: Insights from the Bolivian Amazon
Micaela Morgan | Education
Improving STEM Engagement of Students in the 2-Year to 4-Year Higher Education Pipeline
ROUND 3 (See Recap)
Tue Apr 7 | 11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001
Jamie Booth | Mechanical Engineering
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Materials
Casey Garrett | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Water Matters: Evaluating Water-Related Risk in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Richard Huskey | Communication
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
Using Brains to Change Minds
Rachel Levinson-Emley | English
Bleeding to Heal: Wounds and Intersubjectivity from Medieval Romance to Today
Heather Simpson | Linguistics
Remember These 3 to 5 Things: How the Rhythm and Pitch of the Voice Defines the Limits of Short-Term Memory
Mary Toothman | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Advanced to Semifinal Round
In the Water or in the Genes? What Makes an Infectious Disease Deadly (or Not)?
ROUND 4 (See Recap)
Tue Apr 7 | 3-4p
Pacific View Room, Davidson Library (8th floor)
Melissa Alcorn | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Big Data, Tiny Worm: Building a Practical Model for Personalized Medicine
Taylor Damiani | Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology
Grit: The Hidden Quality That Makes Winners Succeed
Patrick Hall | Linguistics
A California Language You Should Know About
Tanika Ladd | Marine Science
The Ocean's Chalk Factory - How Microscopic Plants Control the Earth's Carbon Cycle
Caleb Miller | Political Science
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Post-Democracy
Jessica Perkins | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem
Celeste Pilegard | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Advanced to Semifinal Round
What Can We Learn From Video Games?
Ken Sterling | Education
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
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?
ROUND 5 (See Recap)
Wed Apr 8 | 11a-12p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Andrea Adams | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Solving the Mystery of Southern California’s Vanishing Frogs: Looking to the Past for Evidence of Disease
David Copp | Mechanical Engineering
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas
Matthew Gebbie | Materials
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Simplifying Nature's Invention: Engineering Mussel Proteins into Biomedical Glues
Abel Gustafson | Communication
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia
Andrew Johnson | Political Science
Hegel’s Polizei: Between Security and Welfare
Lily Li | Mechanical Engineering
Enhance Mass Sensing Using Nonlinearity
Faye Walker | Chemistry and Biochemistry
The Uberification of Genetic Testing
Dibella Wdzenczny | Linguistics
I Can Chat Ya in Kamchatka
ROUND 6 (See Recap)
Wed Apr 8 | 4-5p
IHC McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6046
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
Haddy Kreie | Theater and Dance
Is Blackness Trauma?: Racial Discourse, Trauma Theory, and Vodun Aesthetics
Joshua Kuntzman | Education
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Do You See Why I Love This Subject?: Educational Dialog and the Importance of Real Human Teachers
Sabrina Liu | Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
The Power of Hope: First Year Students' Adjustment to College Amidst Tragedy
Lakshmanan Nataraj | Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
Photographing Computer Programs to Identify Malicious Software
Lauren Smyth | Anthropology
Aspiring towards Greatness: (Re)Presenting Muslim Identity in the American Urban Environment
Erik Spickard | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Gonads to Guts: Reprogramming an Organ in the Nematode C. elegans
ROUND 7 (See Recap)
Thu Apr 9 | 11a-12p
Elings Hall 1605
Anish Bhattacharjya | Chemistry & Biochemistry
Generating and Using Aryl Grignard Reagents in Water, ONLY Water
Oree Holban | Art
The Big MM: Transgender Sensations, Transportation, and the Poetry of Limbo
Brian Hoskins | Materials
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Synaptic Engineering
Ian McCullough | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
A Last Stand? Will California's Ponderosa Pine Forests Survive Climate Change?
Kamala Qalandar | Mechanical Engineering
Small But Mighty: Energy Efficiency in Micromechanical Systems
Zuleyma Rogel | Education
Latino Parents' Negotiation and Development of Letters to Their School Board on a Funding Priority
Ashley Sanford | Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology
Advanced to Semifinal Round
The Science of Meaning-Making
Emily Wilson | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Detecting Invasive Species Using Environmental DNA
ROUND 8 (See Recap)
Thu Apr 9 | 3-4p
Santa Cruz Residence Hall, Main Lounge
Ty Brandt | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Advanced to Semifinal Round, People's Choice
Why Study Snow from the Beach?
Selvi Ersoy | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics
S.C. Kaplan | French and Italian
’Apprendre et Endoctriner’: Women Teaching Women in 15th-Century France
Adam Klein | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Illuminating the Circuitry of Addiction
Sungmin Moon | Education
Pizza, Pisa, PISA
Desmond Ramirez | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
’Seeing’ Octopus Skin in the Light of Evolution
Wencheng Yan | History of Art and Architecture
Advanced to Semifinal Round
Writing Modernity: Constructing a History of Chinese Architecture, 1920 – 1949
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