2019 Grad Slam Winners
First Place:
Katie Murphy, Plant Biology
"Call the Plant Doctor"
Second Place:
Riley Hughes, Nutritional Biology
"Getting Personal with Nutrition
Third Place and People's Choice:
Nahrain Rasho, Political Science
"Regional Autonomy and Local Conflict"
Other UC Davis Finalists:
- Misara Bambao, Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership
- Mackenzie Batali, Food Science
- Fatima Hussain, Chemistry
- Diana Lizarraga, Educational Leadership
- Stacy McCarthy, Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership
- Stela Petkova, Neuroscience
- Lauren Rountree, Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership
2018 Grad Slam Winners
First Place:
Tooka Zokaie, Public Health
"At the Mouth of Health Access"
Second Place:
Rachel Wigginton, Ecology
"Road to Recovery: Plant Invasion and Wetland Restoration on the California Coast"
Third Place:
Divya Kernik, Biomedical Engineering
"An Electric Symphony: Understanding Variability in Heart Cells"
People's Choice:
Mayowa Adegboyega, Anthropology
"Reconstructing Human Evolution: A 3-D Jigsaw Puzzle"
Other UC Davis Finalists:
- Hanjiro Ambrose, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Emery Anderson-Merritt, Geology
- Riley Hughes, Nutritional Biology
- Maci Mueller, Animal Biology
- Augustina Mushale, Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership
- Stela Petkova, Neuroscience
2017 UC Davis Grad Slam Winners
First Place:
Sam Westreich, Integrative Genetics & Genomics
"A Better Understanding of the Gut Microbiome through Metatranscriptomics"
Second Place:
Maci Mueller, Animal Biology
"Mess With the Bull - Don't Get the Horns: Gene-Editing to Improve Animal Welfare"
Third Place:
Carina Fish, Geology
"Surface-Deep Connections: Ocean Acidification"
Other UC Davis Finalists
- Donald Gibson, Integrative Genetics & Genomics
- Omar Hafez, Civil Engineering
- Mike Huh, Geology
- Marc Pollack, Microbiology
- Telha Rehman, Horticulture & Agronomy
- Alex Schmidt, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Youyou Zhang, Civil Engineering
2016 UC Davis Grad Slam Winners
First Place:
Matthew Savoca, Ecology
"Smell explains why marine animals eat plastic debris"
Second Place:
Eric Walters, Microbiology
"Fungal-bacterial coculture for biofuel production"
Third Place:
Kevin Campbell, Biomedical Engineering
"Promoting Lymphatic Vessels to treat Cardiovascular Disease"