The participants of the 2016 GGSE Grad Slam (l-r): Emmie Matsuno, Kevin Delucio, Joshua Kuntzman, Kyle Crocco, Jacob Kirksey, and Walter Aminger.
Six Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on March 30 and eight students will participate in the 2016 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 4-15. For both Grad Slam events, graduate students have the chance to tell the campus about their research or share their thoughts on big ideas that matter, in just a three-minute talk.
All the presentations are free and open to the public.
The Gevirtz School event will be Wednesday, March 30 in Education 1215 and begin at 12 pm. This slam is non-competitive and meant to help participants hone their skills.
Eighty-six graduate students representing departments and programs all across campus are scheduled to compete in the campus-wide event. Creative presentations are welcome but all talks must include a live oral presentation and between one and three PowerPoint slides. The grand prize is $5,000. Two runners-up will receive $2,500. Semi-finalists will receive $750, while preliminary round winners will receive $50. A full calendar of Graduate Student Showcase events is on-line: http://www.gradpost.ucsb.edu/grad-student-showcase-2016.
The Gevirtz School presentations will be:
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 1
Andrew Choi | Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology
“Measuring Prejudice and Encouraging Change from Within”
Kyle Crocco | Education
“Why Is My Message So Repetitive Repetitive? Strategies for Improving Multiplatform Writing”
Monday, April 4, 11 am – noon
Engineering Science Building 1001
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 2
Taylor Damiani | Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology
“Path to Purpose: Finding Our Inner Music”
Veronica Fematt | Education
“Transfer Student Microaggressions and Stereotypes: A Closer Examination of the Campus Climate at a Four-Year Research University”
Monday, April 4, 3 – 4 pm
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 3
Jacob Kirksey | Education
“Teacher Education SPED Up: A Natural Experiment”
Tuesday, April 5, 11 am – noon
ESB (Engineering Science Building) 1001
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 6
Emmie Matsuno | Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology
“LGB and T? Examining LGB Attitudes Towards Transgender Populations”
Wednesday, April 6, 3 – 4 pm
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 8
Kevin Delucio | Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology
“Come Out, Come Out, However You Want: Exploring an Alternative to Verbal Disclosure of Gay Identity”
Joshua Kuntzman | Education
“Educational Dialogs: Uncovering the Foundation for School Reforms”
Thursday, April 7 from 3 – 4 pm
UCen, Flying A Studios