2015
2015 Grad Slam Champion
Daniel Hieber
Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language
2015 Grad Slam Runners-up
Abel Gustafson
Communication
Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia
Jessica Perkins
Environmental Science & Management
Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem
2015 Grad Slam Finalists
Sarah Abdul-Wajid
Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Using Sea Squirts to Find New Genetic Factors Controlling Birth Defects
David Copp
Mechanical Engineering
Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas
Selvi Ersoy
Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics
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
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
Erik Spickard
Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Gonads to Guts: Reprogramming an Organ in the Nematode C. elegans
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