Videos

Welcome to the Grad Slam Videos page! Here you will find videos related to Grad Slam events. From press releases to presentations, you will find it here.

Grad Slam 2023 (In Person Final Round)

Full Recording

Finalist Presentations

GRAD SLAM 2022

Finalist Presentations

Best Recorded Video Presentation Themed Award Submissions

GRAD SLAM 2021

Finalist Presentations

Semifinalist Presentations

Link to KOLD 13 News story and video on Marwan Abduljawad, Grad Slam 2021 1st Place presenter (link is external)

GRAD SLAM 2019

Finalist Presentations

Performances by the Winners of the Performing and Creative Arts Competition

GRAD SLAM 2018

Finalist Presentations

GRAD SLAM 2017

Grad Slam 2017 Finalist Presentations

GRAD SLAM 2016

Grad Slam 2016 Press Videos (These videos are temporarily unavailable)

Grad Slam 2016 Finalist Presentations April 4, 2016

GRAD SLAM 2015

Grad Slam 2015 Press Videos (These videos are temporarily unavailable)

Grad Slam 2015 Finalist Presentations

 

Grad Slam 2023 (In person Final Round)

Full Event Recording

Finalist Presentations

Videos are in presentation order used on March 30, 2023

Grace Heffernon, Biomedical Engineering, “Shining Light on Genetic Cardiomyopathy”

Finalist and 1st Place Award Winner for Best Recorded Video Presentation themed award

Kevin Hurtado, Pharmacology and Toxicology, “Is a World Without Acute Kidney Injury Attainable?”

3rd Place Grand Prize Winner

Abigail Schwarz, Neuroscience Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, “Cannabis Terpenes Enhance Opioid Based Pain Therapy”

1st Place Grand Prize Winner

Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo, Geography “No Way Out: Embodied Geographies of the Carceral State”

Gabby Wen, Applied Intercultural Arts Research Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, “Creative Aging for Older Adults Living with Dementia”

2nd Place Grand Prize Winner

Collin Gillespie, Natural Resource Management—Watershed Management and Ecohydrology, “Investigating Water Use Patterns of Riparian Mesquite”

 

Grad Slam 2022

Finalist Videos

Videos are in the presentation order used on April 15, 2022

Berte Reyes, Rhetoric, Composition & the Teaching of English, "The Smart Ways to Play at Hate"

Sahana Srivatsha, Neuroscience, "Neural Communication in Aging and Memory"

Second Place Grand Prize Winner and Third Place Winner for Best Recorded Video Presentation Award

Kiana Anderson, English Literature, "Ceremonial Storytelling: Recentering and applying indigenous protocols within academic research"

First Place Grand Prize Winner

Grace Heffernon, Biomedical Engineering, "Shining Light on Heart Disease"

Lorenza Sharpe, Entrepreneurship, "How I Met My Pet: Connecting adoptable pets to online seekers through Augmented Reality"

Third Place Grand Prize Winner

Sara Djurich, Physiological Sciences, "Mathematical Modeling of Neurovascular Coupling"

Submissions for Best Recorded Video Presentation Award

View the submissions through our online folder.

Grad Slam 2021

Finalist Videos

Videos are in the presentation order used on April 10, 2021.

Emmy Tisdel, School of Music, College of Fine Arts

 

Adrienne Kinney, Applied Mathematics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Graduate College

2nd Place Award Winner and Winner of Arizona Institutes for Resilience' Best Environmental Presentation

 

Paula Ugalde, School of Anthropology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

 

Marwan Abduljawad, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering

1st Place Award Winner


 

Madeline Gauthier, Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Graduate College

 

Ashley Guest, Clinical Translational Sciences Graduate Program, College of Medicine

3rd Place Award Winner

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Semifinalist Videos

The semifinals consisted of two groups that presented simultaneously in two Zoom meetings. Three presenters from each group moved forward to the Final Round.

Semifinals Group 1

Presentation Order

Semifinals Group 2

Presentation Order

 

Davina Dobbins, Eller College of Management, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, College of Science, Office of Instruction and Assessment

 

James Hollister, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

 

Ashley Guest, Clinical Translational Studies

 

David Cid, Mexican American Studies

 

Mruthyunjay Kubendran Sumathi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Awaiting consent to share Semifinals Video.

 

Celeste Atkins, Higher Education

Winner of the College of Education's Best College of Education Student Presenter Award

 

Brooke Sykes, School of Plant Sciences

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

Marwan Abduljawad, Chemical Engineering

 

Adrienne Kinney, Applied Mathematics

 

Carlie Felion, Nursing

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

Tabitha Green, Department of Child Health

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

James McKenzie, Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies

Winner of the College of Education's Best College of Education Student Presenter Award

 

Angell Kim, Public Administration

 

Michelle Herridge, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

Emmy Tisdel, School of Music

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

Madeline Gauthier, Department of Physiology

 

Paula Ugalde, School of Anthropology

 

Lisa Zieman, Department of Geosciences

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

Kayla Frost, Pharmacology and Toxicology

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

Austin Cruz, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Winner of the College of Science's Best College of Science Student Presenter Award

Awaiting consent to share the video.

 

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Grad Slam 2019

Finalist Videos

Finalist videos are in the presentation order used on April 2, 2019.

 

Jennifer Duchschere, Psychology

John Alexander Erwin, Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program and James E. Rogers College of Law

Jonathan Credo, Clinical Translational Sciences

2nd Place Award Winner

Diana Githu, School of Natural Resources and the Environment

1st Place Award Winner and Best Environment and Social Justice Presentation Award Winner

Lauren Meeks, Department of Nutritional Sciences

3rd Place Award Winner

Sonia Delphin Pérez, School of Natural Resources and the Environment

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Performing and Creative Arts Competition Winners Performances

Performances are in listed in alphabetical order by last name with their program and the title of their performance. The students listed won the first Grad Slam Performing and Creative Arts Competition on March 30, 2019. In addition to winning a cash prize, they are awarded the opportunity to perform as part of the Grad Slam 2019 final round. The performances below are from the Grad Slam final round.

 

Victoria Arredondo, Special Education, Performance of Interspace

Antonio Coronado, Communication, Performance of Lost in Transit

Francis Larson, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Performance of Masculinity in C#, 1st Movement - "Love"

Jacob Ransom, Percussion Performance, Performance of Last Night on Mars

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Grad Slam 2018

Finalist videos are in the presentation order used on April 3, 2018. The grand prize winners went on to represent the University of Arizona at the Southwest Showdown 3-Minute Grad Slam to compete with presenters from Northern Arizona University , University of Nevada, Reno, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

 

Mithun Paul, Dept. of Computer Science, College of Science

 

Lusine Gomtsian, Dept. Medical Pharmacology, College of Medicine - Tucson

1st Place Award Winner

 

Valerie Madera-Garcia, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

3rd Place Award Winner and Best Environmental Presentation Award Winner

 

Yiyi Huang, Dept. of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Science

 

Quentin Raffaelli, Dept. of Psychology, College of Science

 

Travis Sawyer, College of Optical Sciences

2nd Place Award Winner and People's Choice Award Winner

 

Grad Slam 2017

Finalist Presentations in presentation order

The top four presenters went on to represent the UA at the 2017 Arizona 3-Minute Grad Slam. The top presenter also represents the UA at the Western Association of Graduate Schools 3MT competition in Spring 2018.

 

Lourena Arone, Plant Pathology, Impacts of farming practices on the fates of aflatoxin in the environment

People's Choice, Honorable Mention, and Best Environmental Presentation Award Winner

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Sara Khosravi, Systems and Industrial Engineering, SmartWalk Assistant for Disabled Pedestrians

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Samantha Reznik, Clinical Psychology, Developing a new intervention for treatment-resistant depression

Second Place Finalist

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Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching GIDP, Pronunciation Technology: Clear Speech and Empowerment

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Tim Frost, Biomedical Engineering GIDP, Accelerating drug discovery with microfluidic models

First Place Finalist

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Lora Key, History, Mexican Americans in the World War II Era

Third Place Finalist

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Grad Slam 2016

Press Videos  (These videos are temporarily unavailable)

Link to related UA News Article by La Monica Everett-Haynes "Connected-Vehicles Visionary Wins Grad Slam"

Finalist Presentations

The videos are presented in order of presentation on the day of the event. The top three presenters and the Honorable Mention qualified to represent the UA at the statewide Arizona 3-Minute Grad Slam on April 16, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona.

 

Adam Watson, Doctoral Student, Cancer Biology GIDP, Finalist

Andisheh Ranjbari, Doctoral Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 3rd Place Finalist

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Scott Daniel, Doctoral Student, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Honorable Mention Finalist

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Joshua Scholl, Doctoral Student, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Finalist

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Alejandro Martinez Chibly, Doctoral Student, Cancer Biology GIDP, 2nd Place Finalist and People's Choice Award Winner

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Shayan Khoshmagham, Doctoral Student, Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, 1st Place Finalist

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Grad Slam 2015

Press Videos

UA News Video on Grad Slam, April 1, 2015 (This video is temporarily unavailable) (Return to top)

Grad Slam 2015 Finalist Presentations, April 6, 2015 (Return to top)

The following videos showcase the six finalists of Grad Slam 2015. All videos were created by the University of Arizona Libraries, and are presented in order of appearance the day of the event.

Matthew Bronnimann, Doctoral Student, Department of Immunobiology, College of Medicine, Tied for 3rd Place (Return to top)

Rachel LaMantia, Masters Student, College of Architecture, 1st Place Finalist (Return to top)

Emily Mackelprang, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, College of Science, 2nd Place Finalist  (Return to top)

Victoria Moses, Doctoral Student, School of Anthropology, College of Social and Behavioral Science, Finalist (Return to top)

Nina Patrick, Doctoral Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences Program, College of Pharmancy, Tied for 3rd Place (Return to top)

Jasmine Sears, Doctoral Student, College of Optical Science, Finalist (Return to top)

Last updated 4 May 2023