Grad Slam 2019 Preliminary Round Schedule
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ROUND 1
Mon Apr 8 | 11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001
George Degen | Chemical Engineering
Healing Muscles with Mussels
Sean Gilleran | History
"We Have Your Mechanical Brain": An Internet History of Malcolm X Hall
Caitlin Martin | Environmental Science & Management
Increasing Customer Use of Plant-Based, Toxin-Free Personal Care Products
Nicole Zamanzadeh | Communication
Media Multitasking and Teen Stress: Developmental And Parental Risk Factors
Katelyn Zigner | Geography
Fired Up: How Advancements in Wildfire Modeling Will Help Society
ROUND 2
Mon Apr 8 | 3-4p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Shashank Aswathanarayana | Media Arts & Technology
I Hear Bangalore3D
Elliott Finn | Environmental Science & Management
When do Local Policy Interests Trickle-Up?
Chung-Ta Han | Chemical Engineering
A Generalized Approach to Studying Protein's Function Through its Structural Movement
Kathryn Harrison | Communication
Sharing a (Cyber)Space: Fostering Relationship Maintenance and a Sense of Community in an Assisted Living Community Through Virtual Reality
Eric Jones | Physics
You Are What You Eat: Linking the Gut Microbiome to Host Behavior
Caroline Owens | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Changes in Cross-Habitat Nutrient Subsidies
Jennifer Walker | Mechanical Engineering
The Micro-Hammer-Impacting Neuroscience One Cell at a Time
Jiajia Zheng | Environmental Science & Management
Reducing the Global Carbon Footprint of Plastics
ROUND 3
Tue Apr 9 | 11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001
Austin Abrams | Chemistry
A Versatile Tool for Biosensing and Unfolding Chemical Reactions in Real Time
Ana Sofia Guerra | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Cloudy with a Chance of Bird Poop: A tale of Seabirds and Nutrients
Avi McClelland-Cohen | Communication
From #MeToo to #WeToo: Constituting Movement Identity in a Digitally Networked Context
Luke Rosedahl | Dynamical Neuroscience
How Did I Know That: Category Learning and the Human Brain
Marshall Sharpe | Art
Breaking the Silence
Juliette Verstaen | Environmental Science & Management
Pros in Procrastination? Estimating the Consequences of Delaying Marine Management
Julie Zurbuchen | Earth Science
Reconstructing Sea-Level in Antarctica: Where is the Missing Ice?
ROUND 4
Tue Apr 9 | 3-4p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Caroline Ackley | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Defying Gravity: A Worm Story
Kelsey Dowdy | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
The Song of the Pain of the World: A Non-Native Reed's Life & Death in California Watersheds
Tom Ekman | Education
Mexican Students: Learning Beyond Textbooks
Athith Krishna | Electrical & Computer Engineering
GaN You See the Future? Gallium Nitride Electronics: Pathway for the Next Computing Revolution
Samantha McCuskey | Chemical Engineering
How Could Bacteria Power the World?
Phoebe Racine | Environmental Science & Management
Big Mussel: Will They Eat Us Out of the Water?
Naveen Venkatesan | Materials
"Magic Paint" - Using Hybrid Perovskites for Efficient Solar Cells
ROUND 5
Wed Apr 10 | 11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001
Geneva Alok | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
It Started out with Mitosis. How Did it End up Like This?
Katie Bainbridge | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Can Video Games Make You Smarter?
Rebecca Baker | English
Uncanny Alter(n)ity: Science Fiction and the Power of Possible Worlds
Tayyebeh Bakhshi | Chemistry
Catalytic Generation of Chlorine Dioxide
Chani Jindal | Computer Science
Malware Detection Using Machine Learning
Mariah Miller | Global Studies
Capitalism and Social Enterprise
David Mun | Environmental Science & Management
The Apparel Industry: Reducing Environmental and Social Impact through Materials Innovation
ROUND 6
Wed Apr 10 | 3-4p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Rae Fuhrman | Environmental Science & Management
Cultivating Seaweed to Feed and Fuel our World
Daniel Means | Computer Science
Detecting Disasters through Social Media
Liliana Rodriguez | Sociology
Navigating the Climate of Fear: Adolescent Arrivals and the Trump Era
Imani Russell | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Widespread Fungal Infection Across Frogs in the Peruvian Amazon Suggests Critical Role for Low Elevation in Pathogen Spread and Persistence
Fernando Temprano-Coleto | Mechanical Engineering
From Drag Reduction to Maze Solving: The Physics of Surfactants
Jordan Tudisco | Comparative Literature
Neither Here nor There: Non-Binary Existence and the Right to be Represented by Language
Melissa Gordon Wolf | Education
Survey Item Validation
ROUND 7
Thu Apr 11 | 11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001
Yvonne Diaz | Chemistry
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish? Dead Fish! : Combating Food Spoilage with Color
Camille Endacott | Communication
When Artificial Intelligence Makes Your Day
James O'Hara | Physics
Riding the Wave Function of Gallium Arsenide
Colin Raymond | History of Art and Architecture
Formulations of a Medium: The Rise of Video in Japanese Art 1965-1989
Christopher Salem | Education
Availability of Dental Services at School-Based Health Centers in California
Andrew Steinkruger | Environmental Science & Management
Conservation Opportunities in Commercial Aquaculture: The Case for Farming Totoaba
ROUND 8
Thu Apr 11 | 3-4p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Cory Brown | Mechanical Engineering
Dynamic Modes of Ignition Phenomena: Learning Chemistry from Data
Taylor Heisley-Cook | Environmental Science & Management
Waste to Wear: Fabric from Cannabis Waste
Matthew Limb | History of Art and Architecture
Ceramics and the Environmental in the American West
Bharat Monga | Mechanical Engineering
Cure for Parkinson's: A Dream Come True
Khanh Nguyen | Chemistry
When Proteins Hold Hands and Dance
Nicol Parker | Environmental Science & Management
We All Need Somebody to Lean On
ROUND 9
Fri Apr 12 | 11a-12p
SRB Multipurpose Room
Camille Herrera | Environmental Science & Management
Climate Change and the Apparel Industry: Can They Reduce Their GHG Emissions?
Lauren Kaapcke | Environmental Science & Management
Encouraging Investment in Coral Reefs
You-Jin Kim | Media Arts and Technology
Journey to a Physical World through Computational Media
Jesus Olguin | Linguistics
Linguistic Typology as a Window into Human Cognition
Zachary Reitz | Chemistry
Chained by Iron: The Tug-of-War Between Bacteria and our Body
Andrew Rowberg | Materials
Engineering High-Performance Materials for the Hydrogen Economy
ROUND 10
Fri Apr 12 | 3-4p
SRB, Multipurpose Room
Tom Costigan | Philosophy
The Gettier Problem
Violaine Desgens-Martin | Environmental Science & Management
Going Full Circle: Is Treated Wastewater the Future of Drinking Water in Drought-Stricken Areas?
Michael Haggmark | Chemistry
Uncovering the Mechanisms of Indigo Dye's Lasting Color
Margaret Schimmel | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Designing the Cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Novel Immunotherapy
Vinnie Wu | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Motivation Matters: Are Positive Intergroup Interactions Positive for Everyone?
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