Grad Slam 2025
SSU's Grad Slam 2025 was a huge success! Congratulations to all of the students who participated in Sonoma State's Grad Slam!
This year's winners are:
First Place - Aiyana Singh (Biology)
Too Hot to Handle: Marine Heatwave Impacts on Sea Urchins
Second Place - Jared Height (History)
Assessing the Threat of Wildfires to California’s Cultural Heritage Institutions
Also a huge round of applause to our first ever People's Choice Award Winner:
People's Choice - Erin McAllister (History)
To Amuse and To Instruct: Women, Botany, and Moral Instruction in Victorian England
Thank you for joining us on Zoom and at the LARC Watch Party and supporting our graduate students!
Our SSU Graduate Students made an EXCELLENT showing at this year's CSU Grad Slam on May 9th, hosted by CSU San Bernardino!
Both Aiyana Singh of Biology and Jared Height of History presented in the Preliminary Rounds. Their presentations were wonderful and very well-received in their preliminary rounds.
Aiyana Singh advanced to the Final Round and won the Audience Choice Award for her research presentation, "Too Hot to Handle: Marine Heatwave Impacts on Sea Urchins."
A big round of applause to both Aiyana and Jared!
SSU Grad Slam 2024 is on Friday, April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM. This virtual event is the annual Sonoma State University three-minute scholar competition hosted by the Office of Graduate Studies. SSU Grad Slam is a fast-paced and exciting event in which graduate students present their research, scholarship, and creativity in just THREE minutes or less.
Winners of the SSU Grad Slam will receive prizes, gain valuable experience delivering a professional presentation, and will represent Sonoma State at the CSU-wide Grad Slam competition on Friday, May 9, 2025, hosted by California State University San Bernadino.
This event will showcase and celebrate our graduate students as they present their research and creative activities. Student presentations will be evaluated by a panel of judges on how well they engage a non-specialist audience and whether they effectively communicate a clear and logical sequence of key concepts that reflect the impact of their ideas.
Graduate students across all disciplines are encouraged to participate in the SSU Grad Slam Competition. SSU Graduate Students have been winners in both of the first two (2021 and 2022) CSU-wide Grad Slam competitions, including Audience Choice Winner and State-wide Champion.
Rules, Tips, & Examples
To learn more about the rules of the competition and get tips for developing your slide and presentation, see our Rules & Regulations document. Also watch past presentations from finalists in the CSU Grad Slam from past years!