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.
2025 Winners
Kaitriana Colling, Cancer Biology
Erin Wissler Gerdes, Epidemiology
A H M Mainul Islam, Geography
2024 Winners
Israel Wipf, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Sun Joo Lee, Music - Music Education
Bronwyn Stewart, English
2023 Winners
David Ramotowski, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Samuel Taylor, Geography
Maaz Musa, Computer Science
2022 Winners
Riley Post, Civil Engineering
Winter Philibert, Biomedical Engineering
Kassie Baron, English
Mayo Akinbo, Immunology
2021 Winners
Emily Schmitz, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Parham Parnian, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Matthew Nagorzanski, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2020 Winners
Moala Keshei, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Elmira Jangjou, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
Clarissa Shaw, Nursing
Mariam El-Hattab, Biomedical Engineering
2019 Winners
Christie Vogler, Anthropology
Mackenzie Spicer, Biomedical Science - Molecular Medicine
Enrico Bruno, English
2018 Winners
Tianlu Zhang, Second Language Acquisition
Muhammad Taifur Rahman, Biology
Timothy Acri, Pharmaceutics
Oronde Drakes, Geography
2017 Winners
Sharon Idiga, Biomedical Science - Molecular Medicine
Katherine Perschbacher, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Rawa Alammari, Oral Science
2016 Winners - Fall
Kirsten Stoner, Biomedical Engineering
Anh-Vu Do, Chemical and Biomechanical Engineering
Vijay Permeswaran, Biomedical Engineering
Sara Knox, Social Work
