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.

Kaitriana Colling

Kaitriana Colling

Winner, Applied Health & STEM People's Choice
  • Program: Cancer Biology
  • Turning Hormones Into Hope for Uterine Cancer

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Erin Wissler Gerdes

Erin Wissler Gerdes

Honorable Mention
  • Program: Epidemiology
  • Under Pressure: Characterizing Parental Rage and its Relationship with Anxiety in Modern Parenthood

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Mainul Islam

A H M Mainul Islam

Social Sciences & Humanities People's Choice
  • Program: Geography
  • Tracking Bur Oak Blight Across Iowa

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Beth Blanco

Beth Blanco

  • Program: Industrial Engineering
  • The Power of the Top 3

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Ryan Byrd

Ryan Byrd

  • Program: Biomedical Engineering
  • Toxin Exposure Sets Your Fat Ablaze

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Sam Swearson

Samuel Swearson

  • Program: Biomedical Engineering
  • New Treatment for Craniosynostosis

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Emmanuel Aladenika

Emmanuel Aladenikap

  • Program: Oral Science
  • When a DNA Switch Breaks: A Hidden Cause of Cleft Lip

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Oscar Danladi

Fwangmun Oscar Danladi

  • Program: Religious Studies
  • Roots of Belonging: What an Umbilical Cord Burial Reveals About Human–Land Relationships

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Immaculate Edwin

Immaculate Edwin

  • Program: Genetics
  • Outsmarting Treatment: Resistance in Low Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

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Agatha Greenway

Agatha Greenway

  • Program: Molecular Medicine
  • Mapping Migraine: Sex Differences and the Journey to Personalized Therapy

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Matthew Kliegl

Matthew Kliegl

  • Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Modelling Melvin Price Locks and Dam to find effective fish passage alternatives

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Riley Pacer

Riley Pacer

  • Program: Geography
  • Unseen Influences: Assessing the Impact of Prairie Restoration on Local Temperatures

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Kayla Riesch

Kayla Reisch

  • Program: Immunology
  • Back in Action: Discovering Novel Regulators to Combat T Cell Exhaustion

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