2024 Grad Slam contestants

Watch the Grad Slam livestream at 10:30 a.m. (PT), on Tuesday, April 29 at gradslam.universityofcalifornia.edu. Get ready to vote for your favorite! 

From avoiding California power outages by better forecasting electricity demand to stopping Alzheimer’s disease before it starts, UC graduate students are making advances that will affect us all.

Get a master class — in brief — on these and other cutting-edge research projects at Grad Slam, the UC-wide competition that challenges graduate students to explain their complex research in just three minutes flat.

Often infused with humor and unexpected analogies that make even the knottiest of subjects easy to understand, their talks are thought-provoking, enlightening and entertaining, offering relatable ways to think about complex, technical or abstract topics.

Learn more about this year’s event at the UC Newsroom