UCSF Grad Slam 2025

Date: 
April 2, 2025
Time: 
4 p.m. PDT
Place: 
Byers Auditorium - Genentech Hall + Live Stream via YouTube

Join us on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 4-6 p.m. PST, for our popular Grad Slam event, during which 10 PhD student finalists will present their research in three minutes or less, in language accessible to a general audience. It's a celebration not only of the finalists and contest winner, but also of graduate research at UCSF and of scientific inquiry.

grid of headshots of 10 Grad Slam finalists
UCSF Grad Slam finalists! 1st row: Matt Arvedson, Kingsley Chow, Zach Cogan, Maggie Colton Cove, Sophia Miliotis. 2nd row: Devin Schoen, Benjamin Sipes, Kai Trepka, Madeleine Urbanek, Kaylee Wedderburn-Pugh.

 

Grad Slam will be a featured event in UCSF's celebration of Graduate Student Appreciation Week.

Cash prizes of $4,000, $2,000, and $1,000 will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners chosen by the panel of judges. And the audience will choose the "People's Choice" winner, who will receive $750.

There are two ways to join us:

In Person: Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall, Mission Bay campus. Doors open to audience at 3:45 p.m. Light refreshments after the talks! No registration required.

Online: Watch the live stream.*

* Some Grad Slam fans have reserved HSW 300 at Parnassus for live stream viewing, in case you're at Parnassus and want to watch with a group!

Tag us on social media @ucsfgraddiv

#GradSlam, #UCSFGradSlam

More details to come.

Questions? Please contact Erik Rotman.

 


UCSF welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities to our events. To request a reasonable accommodation for this event, please contact Analisa Bea at [email protected] as soon as possible.