Mark your calendars for some of the great Grad Slam presentations planned by your friends and fellow grad students taking place April 9-11.
If these titles are any indication, these are going to be great talks.
Shortest title: Coral Reef Recovery . . . or Not? by Samantha Davis.
Longest title: Making Molecules “Cooperate”: Imitating Nature’s Ubiquitous Strategy of Biomolecular Cooperativity to Improve the Precision of Diagnostic Devices, by Anna Simon.
Funniest title: What Makes Grumpy Cat more Popular than the Higgs Boson? by Arturo Deza.
Best use of food: Cheeseburgers, Central Americans, and Carbon 12: One New Technique for Two Old Problems by Daniel Ervin.
Here is the complete schedule for Rounds 6 to 10.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 6
Wednesday, April 9, 4 to 5 p.m.
IHC McCune Conference Room 6020
- Alien Citizens: The Mexican Repatriation Program, 1920s-40s, by Marla Ramirez, Chicana and Chicano Studies.
- Brutal Silence: Words That Don’t Matter, Writing That Doesn’t Exist, by Ryan Dippre, Education.
- Is Teaching Really the Best Way to Learn? by Logan Fiorella, Psychological and Brain Sciences.
- Low-Power and Reliable Resistive Memories for Future Memory Applications, by Amirali Ghofrani, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Predicting Information Spread in Social Networks with Incomplete Information, by Minh Hoang, Computer Science.
- Re-thinking Gay Rights Strategies: Perspectives from LGBTQ Women in the Rural Midwest, by Carly Thomsen, Feminist Studies.
- Tsunami Hazard along the Santa Barbara Coast, by Laura Reynolds, Earth Sciences.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 7
Thursday, April 10, 11 a.m. to noon
Elings 1605
- Data Security and Privacy for Database Services in the Cloud, by Cetin Sahin, Computer Science.
- Documenting the Endangered Languages of Siberia, by Dibella L. Wdzenczny, Linguistics.
- HIV: Gene Therapy Stealth Attack, by Esther Taxon, Biomolecular Science and Engineering.
- I Have the Foggiest Idea, by Nate Emery, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.
- The Devil in the Brazilian Backlands, by Eduardo Viana da Silva, Spanish and Portuguese.
- This Is Your Brain on Flow: Observing the Brain During Optimal Experiences, by Richard Huskey, Communication.
- TIMSS, the Past, the Present, and the Future, by Sungmin Moon, Education.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 8
Thursday, April 10, 5 to 6 p.m.
Santa Rosa Formal Lounge
- Celebrating Mourning: Memorializations of Vodun and Slavery in West Africa, by Haddy Kreie, Theater and Dance.
- Exploring the Academic Socialization Experiences of Latina/o STEM Graduate Students at UCSB, by Henry L. Covarrubias, Education.
- Insights into the Trophic Roles of Eastern Pacific Olive Ridley Sea Turtles from Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis of Amino Acids, by Lindsey E. Peavey, Bren.
- Making Molecules “Cooperate”: Imitating Nature’s Ubiquitous Strategy of Biomolecular Cooperativity to Improve the Precision of Diagnostic Devices, by Anna Simon, Biomolecular Science and Engineering.
- Measuring Cells from Space: Remote Sensing of Phytoplankton Size Distribution, by James G. Allen, Marine Science.
- Numbers DO Lie: Rethinking Inequality and the “Achievement Gap,” by Grayson Maas, Anthropology.
- Solon: Democratizing the Cloud, by Alexander Pucher, Computer Science.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 9
Friday, April 11, 11 a.m. to noon
Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room
- Bringing Bacchus to the People: Viti-Viniculture, Autarky, and Mass Spectacle in Fascist Italy, 1922-1945, by Brian J. Griffith, History.
- Cheeseburgers, Central Americans, and Carbon 12: One New Technique for Two Old Problems, by Daniel Ervin, Geography.
- Coral Reef Recovery . . . or Not? by Samantha Davis, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
- Economic Incentives in Collective Groundwater Management, by Eric Edwards, Bren.
- Levels of Alienation: Assessing the Effects of a Creative Writing Program on a Population of Incarcerated Adolescent Boys, by Michele N. Zugnoni, Education.
- Mussel Materials-Surprisingly Impressive, by Eric Danner, Biomolecular Science and Engineering.
- New Arsenal of Materials for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Infection, by Michael Zakrewsky, Chemical Engineering.
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 10
Friday, April 11, 3 to 4 p.m.
Elings 1605
- Academic Socialization of Latina and Latino Undergraduate Students at UCSB, by Priscilla Pereschica, Education.
- Can Suburbia Get Smarter? Mixed-Use Developments in the Suburbs of Portland, Oregon, by Erik Solevad Nielsen, Sociology.
- Don’t Stop the Solar Fuels Party, by Dayton Horvath, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
- Edo Nobori: Performance of Identity in Ryukyu’s Embassies to Japan, by Travis Seifman, History.
- From “At-Risk” to “At-Promise”: Critical Pedagogy at Work for High School Youth Participants of Intervention Program, by Mario Galicia Jr., Education.
- Genetic Regulation: What the Human Genome Project Didn’t Tell Us, by David Jacobson, Physics.
- The Evolution of the Flashy Male Display in Ostracoda, by Emily Ellis, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.
- What Makes Grumpy Cat more Popular than the Higgs Boson? by Arturo Deza, Dynamical Neuroscience.
