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Graduate Division Hosts 10th Grad Slam Competition

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Graduate students from ºÚÁϰٿÆâ€™s three schools will take the stage to compete in the Graduate Division’s 10th Grad Slam finals on April 8.
Graduate students from ºÚÁϰٿÆâ€™s three schools will take the stage to compete in the Graduate Division’s 10th Grad Slam finals on April 8.

Who will ºÚÁϰٿÆâ€™s Grad Slam champion be?

Cheer on the on April 8 and find out.

Graduate students from ºÚÁϰٿÆâ€™s three schools will take the stage to compete in the Graduate Division’s 10th Grad Slam finals.

Grad Slam is an annual University of California competition that aims to make research accessible to all by providing emerging scientists and scholars with the skills to engage the public in their work. Forty graduate students competed in the qualifying round in March and the top 10 advanced to the campus’s final round.

Finalists, in alphabetical order, are:

  • Sarah Alnahari, seventh-year Ph.D. student in

  • Maged Elshatoury, second-year Ph.D. student in

  • Cayce Fylling, fifth-year Ph.D. student in

  • Tony Hua, fourth-year Ph.D. student in

  • Samuel Leventini, third-year Ph.D. student in

  • Daniel Miliate, second-year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering

  • Jose Morales, second-year master’s student in mechanical engineering

  • Pravien Rajaram, fourth-year Ph.D. student

  • Alejandra Santoyo, fourth-year Ph.D. student in

  • Ambarish Vardan, sixth-year Ph.D. student in

Each finalist receives a $250 award. The first-place winner of the campus’s Grad Slam final round will receive $5,000. The second-place winner will receive $2,000 and third place $1,000.

The finals start at 2 p.m. April 8 in the Dr. Vikram and Priya Lakireddy Grand Ballroom inside the Conference Center and all are welcome. Doors open at 1:40 p.m. Those who can’t attend in person may watch via (Meeting ID: 896 7960 8213) the day of the event. There is no need to pre-register.

The campus champion will compete at the event Friday, May 3, at LinkedIn’s headquarters in San Francisco. View , including 2021 champion Shayna Bennett and 2023 People’s Choice winner Aneelman Brar of ºÚÁϰٿÆ.

Good luck to all finalists!

Brenda Ortiz

Senior Public Information Representitive

Office: (209) 228-4203

Mobile: (209) 628-8263

bortiz@ucmerced.edu