Wax Cavallaro named as finalist at 2024 Grad Slam

On March 2, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maya Wax Cavallaro took part in this year’s Grad Slam and made it into the final round of the competition. Her talk was titled Syllables in Our Minds: Evidence from a Learning Experiment (from 1:01:02-1:07:33). Maya went through tough competition and won the Humanities Division preliminaries on Feb 7, securing a spot in the final round to compete with winners from four other divisions (Arts, Engineering, Physical and Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences).

As background, Grad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz (and across all UC campuses) Graduate Division that is open to all graduate students, where participants have a maximum of three minutes to explain their graduate research or artistic endeavor to a general audience.

Congratulations to Maya on her wonderful performance and on showcasing linguistic research to a wide audience!