Grad Slam 2016
Click on the finalist to jump to each talk. Watch the announcement of the winners.
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Rewriting evolutionary history: cyborg bacteria for high-efficiency photosynthesis
Kelsey Sakimoto
UC Berkeley
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What the nose knows: smell helps explain why marine animals eat plastic
Matthew Savoca
UC Davis
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The puzzling colors of climate change
Mallory Hinks
UC Irvine
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Traveling to Mars with immortal plasma rockets
Gary Li
UCLA
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Long-term cancer survival: cancer beliefs, fears of recurrence, and lifestyle habits
Arturo Durazo
UC Merced
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Renewable nanopower: the new age of earth abundant electronics
Peter Byrley
UC Riverside
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Using “central intelligence” to fight and conquer brain tumors
Tiffany Taylor
UC San Diego
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The sobering cost of alcohol intoxication
Shannon Smith-Bernardin
UCSF
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Lighting the path from the eye to the brain
Nicole Leung
UC Santa Barbara
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Planetary dynamics around cramped exoplanet star systems
Michael Nayak
UC Santa Cruz