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.
Matthew Nagorzanski
Honorable Mention
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Herbicides & Insecticides & Pharmaceuticals, Oh My! Using Polymer Nanofibers to Look for Unwanted Chemicals in Air and Water
Cassandra Tai
- Program: Political Science
Andrea Malek Ash
- Program: Teaching and Learning - Science Education
- Measuring Invisible Things
Levi Kirby
- Program: Industrial Engineering
- Protecting Those, Protecting Us: A 3D Printing Approach to Safer Explosives
Darcy Diesburg
- Program: Psychology
- Beta Bursts: Signatures of Our Brain’s Braking System
Hannah Zadeh
- Program: Sociology
- The Genealogy of Racialized Method: eGFR as Case Study
Ellen Upton
- Program: Immunology
- The Role of ISG15 in Cellular Protection from Pathogens
Bethanny Sudibyo
- Program: Spanish
- Imperial Imaginings: Representations of Religion, Race, and Gender in 19th Century Spanish-Philippine Novels
Jeehan Malik
- Program: Computer Science
- How do vulnerable road users respond to traffic safety information presented to them through technology?
Andrew Voigt
- Program: Biomedical Science - Molecular Medicine
Amanda Bullert
- Program: Occupational and Environmental Health
Emily Steinbach
- Program: Biomedical Science - Free Radical and Radiation Biology
- Unfiltered Topics: Long-Term Kidney Toxicity In Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Novel Therapeutic Intervention