On Friday, April 19, nine graduate students competed in the first annual Grad Slam finals. Open to all graduate students, the Grad Slam is a campus-wide competition for the best three-minute talk. This is an opportunity for graduate students to tell the campus about their research or share their thoughts on ‘big ideas that matter’. The finalists were the winning presenters from each of nine preliminary rounds held earlier in the week. The overall competition included presentations from eighty students representing thirty-six departments and programs.
The finalists' presentation are now viewable on YouTube in the embedded playlist below or on the GradPost's YouTube channel.
Coverage of the finals and each preliminary Grad Slam round may be found here:
- Opera, Posters, AlloSphere, and 3-Minute Talks Highlight a Day of Graduate Student Showcase Events
- Grad Slam Round 1: Students Impress Panel of Judges With Their Research
- Grad Slam Round 2 Recap: Superman to Smarty Pants, and More
- Grad Slam Round 3 Recap: Solar Cells, Exploding Brains, and More
- Grad Slam Round 4 Recap: From Curing Diseases to Finding Happiness
- Grad Slam Round 5 Recap: From Lighting the World to Feeding the Hungry
- Grad Slam Round 6 Recap: Rethinking Time, Energy, and the History of Products
- Grad Slam Round 7 Recap: Talks Include Diseases and Disasters, Unions and Unicorns
- Grad Slam Round 8 Recap: From Suburban Sprawl to Super-Capacitors
- Grad Slam Round 9 Recap: Natural Resources, Near-Death Experiences Among Talks in Last Qualifying Round