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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