UGA hosts 10th annual Three Minute Thesis competition
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The University of Georgia Graduate School hosted the 10th annual Three Minute Thesis competition in a virtual ceremony on April 8. Better known by the acronym 3MT, the competition requires contestants to explain their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance in three minutes or less using only a single static presentation slide.
This year’s grand prize winner was Judith M. Reyes Ballista, a doctoral student in the Department of Infectious Diseases, for her presentation titled “The Grinch of the Cells.”
The runner-up was Shannon Rodriguez, a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics. And the people’s choice award, which is given to the contestant who receives the most votes from viewers of the competition, went to Aarya Venkat, a doctoral student in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.