Grad Slam 2026 Preliminary Round Presenters to Showcase their work on February 9

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

• Laurel Hendrickson, Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies
• Vanessa Macamo, Special Education
• Cole Meyer, Planetary Sciences
• 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
• Hilary Houlette, Higher Education
• Charlotte Zehnder, Physics
• Mahdi Faraji, Environmental Health Sciences
• 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, Physiological Sciences
• 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
• Jazzie Terrell, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
• Danielle DiFranco, Cancer Biology

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