‘New Hot Air’ Is a Grad Slam Dunk
Alice Dien Uses Little Air to Explain Her Research
"Biological systems engineering Ph.D. student Alice Dien won the 2022 UC Davis Grad Slam with her 2-minute, 54-second presentation on her research into a new, sustainable way of drying food, “Cooling Down With the New Hot Air: The Future of Drying in Agriculture.”
Jean-Pierre Delplanque, vice provost and dean of Graduate Studies, as master of ceremonies, opened the program with an explanation: 'What we’ve done here is challenge graduate students to take literally thousands of hours of research and compress them into three minutes ... and to make it accessible to a nonspecialist audience.'"