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Although COVID-19 has changed everyone’s plans this spring, Graduate Division staff members rallied to make sure the campus’s annual Grad Slam competition — showcasing graduate student research — continued as planned. This year’s qualifying round was different than previous years. Each of the competition’s 21 participants submitted a three-minute video pitch along with a three-slide presentation explaining their research to a general audience.
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