We have a winner. For her 3-minute research talk, “Healthy Forests, Healthy Humans,” Kacie Ring, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, earned the title 2024 UCSB Grad Slam Champion in the competition’s final round (link is external) , held Friday, April 5, in Campbell Hall. “It's a lot of hard work going into this, strangely, for three minutes,” Ring said of her Grad Slam experience. “But I feel like it's all worth it.” One big reward was meeting the other ...