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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
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
BYU Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts Three Minute Thesis competition byu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from byu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.