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.
Kirsten Stoner
Winner
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- A Pain in the Neck: Modeling Cervical Myelopathy
Anh-Vu Do
Honorable Mention
- Program: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Using Ultrasound to Enhance Tumor Cell Killing
Sara Knox
People's Choice
- Program: Social Work
- How Helpful Are Specific Techniques in Online Counseling?
Magdalene Ameka
- Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Lose the Weight by Ignoring the Fat
Madhur Joshi
- Program: Chemistry
- Access to Aza-heterocycles: Key to a Better Future
Nyla Balakrishnan
- Program: Preventive & Community Dentistry
- Integration of Oral Health and Chronic Diseases
Ying Hsu
- Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
- What Happens When Elevators Break Down in Photoreceptor Cells?
Laura Kuhlman
- Program: English
- The Beat Goes On: Women Writers of the Beat Generation
Suvendra Vijayan
- Program: Oral Science
- Accuracy and Reliability of Using Bio 3D Printed Prostheses
Rachel Anderson
- Program: Psychological & Brain Sciences
- The Effects of Chronic Corticosterone on the Female Rodent Brain
Kathryn Brightbill
- Program: Business Administration - Accounting
- Explaining Analyst Bias: Uncertainty & Time
Ali Al-Jumaili
- Program: Pharmacy - Health Services Research
- Towards a Better Work System in Nursing Homes
Kareem Ebeid
- Program: Pharmacy - Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics
- Targeted Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment