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

David Ramotowski

Winner
Unlikely Heroes: Keeping Toxic PCBs Out of Our Air With Bacteria and Biochar
Samuel Taylor

Samuel Taylor

Honorable Mention
Better Protection Through Better Prediction: Climate-Resilient Debris-Flow Modeling
Maaz Musa

Maaz Musa

People's Choice
Unveiling the Digital Veil: Empowering Transparency and Accountability in Online Privacy
Yazeed Alabbad

Yazeed Alabbad

Finalist
Empowering Communities Against Floods
Amanda Heiderscheit

Amanda Heiderscheit

Finalist
Living with Uncertainty: A Quest for Management of a Rare Kidney Disease
Akansha Jain

Akansha Jain

Finalist
Misaligned feet: the root cause of an immotile cilia airway disease
Karthika Kelat

Karthika Kelat

Finalist
Tackling Radiologists' Errors to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Maddi Lensing

Maddi Lensing

Finalist
The Battle Within: Harnessing Tregs to Combat Hair Loss
Sarina Murray

Sarina Murray

Finalist
What does Michael Myers from the Halloween film and Uveal Melanoma have in common?
Winter Philibert

Winter Philibert

Finalist
Shear Coincidences and Fixing Broken Mucociliary Escalators
Austin Tang

Austin Tang

Finalist
How can we resist antibiotic resistance?
Yan Xu

Yan Xu

Finalist
Boosts immunity for oral health