/ Doctoral Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/ecology-student-advances-grad-slam-finals <p>Doctoral student Matt Savoca talks trash — well enough that he's just earned a&nbsp;spot in a prestigious&nbsp;University of California competition for communicating graduate research.</p> <p>The ecology student won a campus&nbsp;contest on Friday and will compete against nine winners from sister campuses in the&nbsp;<a href="https://gradslam.universityofcalifornia.edu/">51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Grad Slam</a> finale in San Francisco on April 22. <a href="https://gradslam.universityofcalifornia.edu/finalists/"><em>Check out his competition.</em></a></p> April 11, 2016 - 5:54pm Julia Ann Easley /news/ecology-student-advances-grad-slam-finals /news/top-mexican-grad-students-uc-davis <p>Their fields of study are very different: the evolution of marine invertebrates that date back more than 500 million years and the quest to make a new generation of biofuels from yeast.</p> September 16, 2015 - 8:00am Robyn Frances Huey /news/top-mexican-grad-students-uc-davis