USD’s graduate school is sponsoring the fourth annual Three Minute Thesis competition this month. The preliminary rounds were held Thursday, Feb. 11 and the final rounds will be held Wednesday, Feb. 17 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The winner of the competition will be awarded $350 and will go on to the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools 3MT competition. The second and third place winners will be awarded $250 and $150, respectively. There are six contestants moving on to the final round: Kirby Fuglsby, Christa Huber, Brandon Meyerink, Carrie Minette, Elizabeth Sterling and Nisitha Wijewantha.
The Three Minute Thesis competition is judged by criteria set out by the Three Minute Thesis rules. The competition criteria dictate judges of the competition must be non-specialists. The preliminary round judges were Beth Lambeth, USD’s Technology Transfer Officer; Doug Wagner, Director of the Munster University Center and Student Programing and Travis Vlasman, Director of Graduate Admi