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Grad Slam 2026 Preliminary Rounds

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When

Feb. 9, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Get excited! The 2026 slate of Grad Slam presenters is set. The public is invited to drop by the Sabino Room of the Student Union on February 9 to learn about the fantastic work of this year's student presenters. Each student will present on their original research, creative work, or community engagement project for a non-specialist audience in 3-minutes or less and with one slide. Stop by, learn about amazing work, and support these fantastic students.

Schedule

Presented in presentation order

Round 1, 8 AM to 10 AM

  • Dominic Julian, Clinical Translational Studies
  • Laurel Hendrickson, Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies
  • Kayleigh Fox, Biomedical Engineering
  • Yuan Gao, Business Administration
  • Vanessa Macamo, Special Education
  • Cole Meyer, Planetary Sciences
  • Rana Khober, Clinical Translational Sciences and the Drug Discovery and Development
  • Emma Louis, Medical Pharmacology
  • Camila Armenta, Business Administration
  • Lindsay Stoy, Biomedical Engineering
  • Solange Quintana, Marketing
  • Jim Bradford, Geosciences
  • Anik Das, Atmospheric Sciences

Round 2, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Ashley Roberts, Mathematics
  • Arushi Chalke, Epidemiology
  • Joshua Liberman, Optical Sciences
  • Xiang Zhong, Atmospheric Sciences
  • Hilary Houlette, Higher Education
  • Yamini Sumalatha Bhukya, Educational Psychology
  • Sree Vani Poorna Pillutla, Clinical Translational Sciences
  • Charlotte Zehnder, Physics
  • Mahdi Faraji, Environmental Health Sciences
  • Kinsey Clyne, Biostatistics
  • Maura Beste, Gender and Women's Studies
  • Krista Romero-Cardenas, Natural Resource Studies
  • Joanna Joseph, Systems and Industrial Engineering
  • Aniket Dhar, Geosciences
     

Round 3, 1 PM to 3 PM

  • Nicole Ferguson, Neurosciences
  • Iosif Xiradakis, Hydrology
  • Shine Chin, Neurosciences
  • Kevin Wadman, Data Science
  • Miely Suarez, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences
  • Sattwik Das, Computer Science
  • Nathan Hadland, Planetary Sciences
  • Shruti Singh, Civil Engineering
  • Lauren O’Rourke, Government and Public Policy
  • SoRi La, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Connor Wilson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Rod Bravo, Medicine
  • Jazzie Terrell, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
  • Danielle DiFranco, Cancer Biology
  • Bhoomi Kothari, Marketing

Round 4, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Sophie Lebowitz, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Anesu Samuel Masango, Clinical Translational Sciences
  • Yuan Gao, Business Administration
  • Devanshi Shukla, Neurosciences
  • Andres F. Diaz, Cancer Biology
  • Melissa Kontogiannis, Planetary Sciences
  • Rajitha Reddy Tiruthani, Data Science
  • Eka Oktavia Kurniati, Civil Engineering
  • Brittany Phelps, Clinical Translational Sciences
  • Carlos Garcia Ramirez, Biomedical Engineering
  • Jyotsna Singh, Information Science
  • Jessica Schachtner, Psychology
  • Alexandra Miller, Clinical Translational Sciences