Mark your calendars for some of the great Grad Slam presentations planned by your friends and fellow grad students taking place April 7-9.
If the titles are any indication, this is going to be a great event.
Shortest title: Untimely Ecologies. By Christopher Walker.
Longest title: Having “The Talk”: The Importance of Parent-Child Communication about Sexual Orientation in the Development of Youth Sexual Orientation Attitudes and Behaviors. By Audrey Harkness.
Funniest title: Let Them Eat Ketchup. By Caitlin Rathe.
Cleverest use of emoticon: Student Perceptions of Teacher:) Emoticon Usage. By Aubrie Adams.
Here is the complete schedule for the first five rounds.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 1
Monday, April 7, 11 a.m. to noon
Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room
- Beyond War: Rebuilding Liberia’s Ethnic and National Identities, by Gary Haddow, Education.
- Complex Fluids Being Even More Complex, by Yassine Dhane, Chemical Engineering.
- Everyday Developers: The Production and Cultures of Indie Games, by John Vanderhoef, Film and Media Studies.
- Mapping the Finger: The Colonial History of Biometrics, by Mira Rai Waits, History of Art and Architecture.
- Method to Our Madness: Towards a Better Understanding of the Public’s Role in Policy, by Heather Hodges, Political Science.
- Towards Bringing One Billion More to the Light without Raising the Global Thermostat, by Christopher Proctor, Materials.
- Uncovering Mechanisms of Developmental Robustness Using Microfluidics, by Eric Terry, BMSE.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 2
Monday, April 7, 3 to 4 p.m.
Elings 1605
- 4D to 5D Object Modeling for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome, by Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- “Cell”ection Using Light and Flow: Detect It before It Is Cancer! by Mehran Hoonejani, Mechanical Engineering.
- The Fear of Art, and How to Eliminate It, by Barney B. Johnson, Music
- How Pizza Explains Yoga, by Philip Deslippe, Religious Studies.
- Kidney Punch: The Final Hit, by Kevin Kipp, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.
- Let Them Eat Ketchup, by Caitlin Rathe, History.
- Reconstructing Proto-Sogeram, by Don Daniels, Linguistics.
- Student Perceptions of Teacher :) Emoticon Usage, by Aubrie Adams, Communication.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 3
Tuesday, April 8, 11 a.m. to noon
ESB (Engineering Science Building) 1001
- Effects of Compost Application Rate on Area- and Yield-Scaled Greenhouse Gas Emissions, by Michelle Oyewole, Geography.
- Hansel and Gretel at the Piano: Children’s Music and Socialization, by Matthew Roy, Music.
- On-site Healthcare by Sleight of Hand, by Faye Walker, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Partition-Based Similarity Search, by Maha Alabduljalil, Computer Science.
- The Origin of Ostracod Bioluminescence, by Nicole Leung, Bimolecular Science and Engineering.
- Understanding Second Language Acquisition from a Sociocognitive Perspective, by Jenna Joo, Education.
- Untimely Ecologies, by Christopher A. Walker, English.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 4
Tuesday, April 8, from 3 to 4 p.m.
Pacific View Room, Davidson Library (8th floor)
- Analytics at Your Fingertips, by Vaibhav Arora, Computer Science.
- A Safe and Effective Nanotherapeutic to Control the Coagulation Cascade During Trauma, by Damien Kudela, Chemistry.
- Because Neglect Isn’t Cute: Tuxedo Stan’s Campaign for a Humane World, by Shari Sanders, Comparative Literature.
- Handling Our Dead: What Funerals Say about the Living, by Christine Murphy, Religious Studies.
- Improving Social Skills in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, by Sunny Kim, Education.
- Putting on Your Work Hat: The Role of [Un]Professionalism in Organizational Life, by Scott Banghart, Communication.
- Searching the Brain for Missing Parts, by Matt Cieslak, Psychological and Brain Sciences.
- The Brain in Action, by Deborah Barany, Dynamical Neuroscience.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 5
Wednesday, April 9, 11 a.m. to noon
Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room
- Cocaine in the Brain, by Kyle Ploense, Psychological and Brain Sciences.
- Electrochemical Sensors for Rapid and Inexpensive Pathogen Detection, by Hannah Kallewaard, Chemistry and Biochemistry.
- Focused, Efficient, and Bright: The Promise of Laser Lighting, by Leah Kuritzky, Materials.
- Having “The Talk”: The Importance of Parent-Child Communication about Sexual Orientation in the Development of Youth Sexual Orientation Attitudes and Behaviors, by Audrey Harkness, Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology.
- Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Giant Kelp, by Thomas Bell, Marine Science.
- I Know How You Feel: Literature and the Experience of Empathy, by Shay Hopkins, English.
- Teachers’ Beliefs about Language: Gaining Positive Perspectives, by Elizabeth Mainz, Education.
