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.
Israel Wipf
Winner
- Program: Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Fueling the Fire: Fruit Flies and the Obesity-Cancer Connection
Sun Joo Lee
Honorable Mention
- Program: Music - Music Education
- Outcomes of Therapeutic Group Singing for People with Parkinson’s Disease
Riley Behan-Bush
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Mac Smash! How PCBs Turn Immune Cells into Monsters
Cameron Brown
- Program: Communication Studies
- You Got Me Feeling Emotions: Queer Emotional Labor and Audiences of Reality
Jordan Mayberry
- Program: Genetics
- Friend or Foe: The Role of the Immune System in Glaucoma
Winter Philibert
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Improving airway mucus properties for easier breathing
Akansha Jain
- Program: Biomedical Science - Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Balancing Oxygen: Insights from our Lungs
Shanari Rathnayake
- Program: Chemistry
- Color Changing Polymers: A Simple Solution for Detecting Spoiled Meat
Misty Perez
- Program: Biomedical Science - Molecular Medicine
- Cheers to FGF21: The Hormone Helping You Drink Less
Ti-Ara Turner
- Program: Immunology
- Using a Humanized Mouse Model to Better Understand Multiple Sclerosis
Kaitriana Colling
- Program: Biomedical Science - Cancer Biology
- Harnessing Hormones: Advancing Progestin Therapy for Uterine Cancer
Shobhan Roy
- Program: Mechanical Engineering
- How (NOT) to trigger a detonation in energetic materials: the microstructure holds the key!
Mavis Gyesi
- Program: Educational Policy and Leadership Studies - Higher Education and Student Affairs
- Examining (Mis)alignment of Educational Goals and Career Aspirations Among Sub-Saharan African International Graduate Students in the United States