calendar-with-clock-icon-uc-santa-barbara Monday, March 3rd, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm
location-icon-uc-santa-barbara Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room

Presenters:

Joaquin Becerra (Education)
"Hispanic Serving Institution: Servingness & Campus Climate"

Miram Burnett (Education)
"A Cause for Concern: Historical Implication of Legacies of Racism and Intersectionality on Concepts of Sense of Belonging at Predominately Non-Black Institutions in Higher Education in the U.S."

Royce Olarte (Education)
"Becoming A Math Professor: Graduate Students' Professional Identity Development"

Arnold Rodriguez Robles (Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology)
"Exploring the Intricacies of Language and Executive Functioning"

hui zhang (Education)
"Factors that Impact Immigrant Parents' Services Choices for Their Children with Autism"

Judges:

Our esteemed judges for this round are:

  • Lina Kim (Director of Academic Programs at Summer Sessions)

  • Hsiu-Zu Ho (Retired Associate Dean at the UC Education Abroad Program)

  • Karen Myers (Professor of Communication)

  • Genessis Salcedo (Undergraduate in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology and Women's Center Student Programmer)

  • Esther Showalter (Graduate Student in Computer Science and 2022 Grad Slam Finalist)

Emcee: TBD

For each of the preliminary rounds, we will give out over $1,500 in prize money:

  • $1,000 for 1st place and advancement to the Final Round on April 5
  • $500 for the runner up
  • $25 gift cards for raffled off for all other presenters