The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges graduate students to communicate their research in three minutes or less in non-specialist language. Contestants represent a diverse array of disciplines and areas of study, and reflect the passion and thirst for discovery common among all of Iowa's graduate students.
David Ramotowski
Winner
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering - Environmental Engineering
- Unlikely Heroes: Keeping Toxic PCBs Out of Our Air With Bacteria and Biochar
Samuel Taylor
Honorable Mention
- Program: Geography
- Better Protection Through Better Prediction: Climate-Resilient Debris-Flow Modeling
Maaz Musa
People's Choice
- Program: Computer Science
- Unveiling the Digital Veil: Empowering Transparency and Accountability in Online Privacy
Yazeed Alabbad
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering - Water Resources
- Empowering Communities Against Floods
Amanda Heiderscheit
- Program: Immunology
- Living with Uncertainty: A Quest for Management of a Rare Kidney Disease
Karthika Kelat
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Tackling Radiologists' Errors to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Yan Xu
- Program: Pharmacy - Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Boosts immunity for oral health
Maddi Lensing
- Program: Immunology
- The Battle Within: Harnessing Tregs to Combat Hair Loss
Winter Philibert
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Shear Coincidences and Fixing Broken Mucociliary Escalators
Akansha Jain
- Program: Biomedical Science - Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Misaligned feet: the root cause of an immotile cilia airway disease
Sarina Murray
- Program: Biomedical Science - Cancer Biology
- What do Michael Myers from the Halloween film and Uveal Melanoma have in common?