SLAM Finalists

1st Place

Anne Villacastin

Biosciences

"Sorghum and Me: A Complicated Relationship"

2nd Place

Bernard Field

Energy Sciences

"Choosing the Floor for Dancing Electrons"

3rd Place

Yuan Gao

Energy Technologies

"Zero Energy Windows"

1st Place

Brandon Zimmerman 

PLS

"3D Printing the Future: Designing Additively Manufactured Materials for Extreme Environments"

2nd Place

Aditya Prajapati 

PLS

"Climate Change is Hot, Electrochemistry is Cool"

3rd Place

Widi Moestopo 

ENG

"Igniting Tomorrow’s Clean Energy:

3D Printing for Fusion Power Plants"

1st Place

Karuna Jetty 

Microbes at Work: The Magic Behind the Palm Kernel Oil Production

2nd Place

Valentina Garcia 

"Taking off fueled by biology: Using yeast to make sustainable aviation fuels"

3rd Place

Iris Jones 

"Preventing the next pandemic: identifying host proteins conserved for viral entry"

1st Place

Taran Driver 

LCLS

"Measuring the delay in Photo Ionization"

2nd Place

Sihan (Sandy) Yuan 

KIPAC

"Learning Real Physics From a Virtual Universe"

Runner Up

Ozge Bozkurt 

SSRL

"Cutting plastics with stylish catalysts"