Graduate Student Success

UC Davis graduate student Lauren Rountree

UC Davis Grad Slam Finalist: Lauren Rountree

  • by Elizabeth Lambert, Director of Marketing and Communications

UC Grad Slam is an annual contest in which master’s and Ph.D. students across UC campuses – in disciplines ranging from hard sciences to humanities – compete to sum up their research for a general audience. Students present the significance and fundamental points of their work at UC Davis in a clear, direct and interesting manner. Lauren Rountree is a graduate student in the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership master's program.

UC Davis graduate student Katie Dalhausen

Koala Poo, Chlamydia and the Microbiome: Biophysics Graduate Student Katherine Dahlhausen

  • by Greg Watry, College of Biological Sciences

Katherine Dahlhausen's microbial curiosity was inspired by a bacterial disease she contracted while traveling. Today, she's a student in the Biophysics Graduate Group and works in the lab of Professor Jonathan Eisen. She helped uncover that treatments meant to combat chlamydia in koalas actually hurt important gut microbes

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