Boise State News February 11, 2021
-By Kinzi Dorr
Interdisciplinary research is all the rage. Now, more often than not, graduate scholarship seeks to transverse traditional disciplines to create new areas of academic study. But what research falls at the intersection of hydrologic sciences, materials science and engineering, communication, geophysics, and biomolecular sciences?
Trick question; none currently. However, that unique compilation of research areas represents this year’s Boise State Three Minute Thesis (3MT) winners.
The Graduate College hosted the sixth annual 3MT competition as a live webinar on Feb. 2. The 3MT is a global competition that challenges graduate students to present their scholarship in just three minutes or less using one slide. The 16 finalists contended for a $750 first place award, $500 second place award, $250 third place award, and an $150 honorable mention award, as determined by a six-person panel of distinguished judges from the B