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.
Riley Post
Winner
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering - Water Resources
- Can Little Ponds Fight Big Floods?
Winter Philibert
Honorable Mention
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Nitric Oxide: A Key to New Respiratory Disease Treatments
Mayo Akinbo
- Program: Immunology
- TIM3 on DCs Helps Fight Viruses
Piyumi Wijesitigunawardana
- Program: Chemistry
- Investigating a cure for Alzheimer's
Tahsin Khataei
- Program: Health and Human Physiology
- No Pain No Gain vs All Pain No Gain
Berkley Conner
- Program: Communication Studies
- Containing Menstruation, "Protecting" the Nation
Austin Santhin
- Program: Immunology
- Vaccines from Trees: You'll be saying "Yes Please!"
Vingie Ng
- Program: Human Toxicology
- Vaping vs. Asthma: Smoking without the Smoke
Nimesh Pasan Ransinghe
- Program: Chemistry
- Membrane Science: A solution for major global challenges
Amanda Heiderscheit
- Program: Immunology
- A novel biomarker for chronic kidney disease: C3 glomerulopathy
Konna Zoga
- Program: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Thermal treatment of biofilm infections: the next step
Jace Heath
- Program: Immunology
- An investigation into the post-thymic regulation and function of the CD5 co-receptor in T cells