The Division of Graduate Studies congratulates the finalists in the 2015 Grad Slam! Finalists presented their research on Friday, March 6, 2015, to an enthusiastic audience.

First Place was awarded to Justine Smith, who represented UC Santa Cruz at the Univeristy of California system-wide finals in May in Oakland. Below, we present videos of the First Place Winner Justine Smith, Second Place Winner Susanna Honig, and People’s Choice Awardee Annalisa Cadonna. 

All 2015 UCSC Grad Slam presentations are viewable on the Division of Graduate Studies YouTube site.

First Place

2015 UC Santa Cruz Grad Slam First Place Winner

Runner-Up

People’s Choice


The finalists for the 2015 UCSC Grad Slam contest were:

Alicia Michael, Chemistry
Silencing the Molecular Timekeeper

Gabriel Byrne, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics
Beyond an Abstract Hope: Developing an HIV Vaccine

Susanna Honig, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Seabirds to Reefs: A Messy Connection

Erica Smeltzer, Literature
Urban Space and National Memory: The Narratives of Prague, Gdańsk, and Berlin

Tim Miller, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Floral Display and Clarkia concinna: A Little Plant Solves a Big Dilemma

Jennifer Burt, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Our Strange Place in the Galaxy

Annalisa Cadonna, Statistics & Applied Math
Flexible Spectral Modeling for the Analysis of Complex Brain Signals

Emma Storm, Physics
Non-Thermal Emission from Galaxy Clusters

Justine Smith, Environmental Studies
Humans As Top Dog: Ecological Effects of Carnivore Fear

Rachel Doran, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
HIV Glycans: A Sweet Solution to Challenges in HIV Vaccine Design

Last modified: Dec 02, 2024