AT A GLANCE
WHAT: °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ Grad Slam finals
WHEN: 1-2 p.m. Friday (April 14)
WHERE: Community Education Room,
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public; .
Three minutes is all the time you get in the Grad Slam to present what in some cases may be years of research. Three minutes in which you — as a master’s or doctoral student in any discipline — must cover the significance of your research and its fundamental points. And you’ve got to keep it interesting.
Competitors are advised to prepare their talks for a diverse audience of students, faculty and community members. Judges will strongly consider clarity and effectiveness of the presentation for a general university audience.
Whoever does it best in the finals this Friday (April 14) will move on to the , where a $5,000 prize awaits the winner from among UC’s 10 campuses. The Davis campus will award $1,000 for first place, $500 for second and $250 for third.
This year’s campus competition drew more than 80 proposals, more than double last year’s number. A qualifying event was held Feb. 28 to winnow the field to 10.
Here are the finalists (listed with their graduate programs):
- Carina Fish,
- Donald Gibson,
- Omar Hafez,
- Mike Huh,
- Maci Mueller,
- Marc Pollack,
- Telha Rehman,
- Alex Schmidt,
- Sam Westreich,
- Youyou Zhang,