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Organized by the Graduate School in partnership with the Graduate Student Association, the sixth annual Three Minute Thesis Competition showcased the minds and brevity of doctoral and research-based master’s degree programs at the University of Miami.
Doctoral candidates in programs historically underrepresented by Black and Hispanic students received McKnight Doctoral or Dissertation Fellowships that offer financial, counseling, and professional development support. When these students complete their degrees, they become eligible to teach at the collegiate level.
Competitors rapidly focus on unique ways to save lives, resources
By Janette Neuwahl Tannen By Janette Neuwahl Tannen
02-05-2021
During the Graduate School’s fifth annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition, students shared condensed versions of a variety of research projects.
There were novel ways to help alert people in the path of catastrophic floods; evidence-based ideas to support those with mental illness and prevent suicide; as well as a solution to making a commute to work smoother, with fewer road projects to heighten traffic.
And those were just a few of the concepts floated by students Thursday night, when they summed up months or years of research into just 180 seconds at the University of Miami Graduate School’s fifth annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition.