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.

Kawther Ahmed

Kawther Ahmed

Winner
  • Program: Pharmacy - Pharmaceutics
  • Engineered Cancer Vaccine

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Allison Songstad

  • Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • The Vision to Cure Blindness

 

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Richard Ligo

Richard Ligo

  • Program: Mathematics
  • The Mobius Energy of Weighted Knots

 

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Shiyi Wang

  • Program: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
  • Preventing Suicide by Understanding Brain Disorders

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Katherine Peter

Katherine Peter

  • Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Nanomaterial-Enabled Drinking Water Treatment Technologies

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Caitlin Cosme

  • Program: Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences
  • The Role of the Insular Cortex in Cocaine Relapse

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Amber Bates

Amber Bates

  • Program: Oral Science
  • Methods to Study Inflammation in the Mouth

 

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Sebastian De Pascuale

  • Program: Physics & Astronomy
  • Voyage of the Van Allen Probes on the Shore of Space

 

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Crystal Wotipka

  • Program: Communication Studies
  • Embracing the Screen of Mediated Environments: An Exploration of the Buffer Effect's Role in Communication Surrounding Transgressions

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Michael Freedberg

Michael Freedberg

  • Program: Neuroscience
  • Reward, Punishment, and Skill Acquisition