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. Moala Keshei Bannavti, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, is the 2020 winner. Her presentation focused on remediation efforts of PCBs in schools.
![Moala Keshi (Bannavti)](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Moala-Bannatvi-landscape-portrait-2.jpg)
![Clarissa Shaw](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Clarissa-Shaw-landscape_portrait_0.jpg)
![Mariam El-Hattab](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Mariam-Y-El-Hattab-landscape-portrait-alternative_1.jpg)
![Nyema Harmon](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Nyema-Harmon-landscape-portrait_0.jpg)
![Elmira Jangjou](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Elmira-Tazehkand-landscape-portrait.jpg)
![Ivy Debreceni](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Ivy-Debreceni-landscape-portrait-alternative.jpg)
![Stephanie Peterson](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Stephanie-Peterson-landscape-portrait.jpg)
![Megan Lindmark](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Megan-Lindmark-landscape-portrait.jpg)
![Emily Wieder](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Emily-Wieder-landscape-portrait.jpg)
![Alyssa Mianecki](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Alyssa-Mianecki-landscape_portrait_0.jpg)
Alyssa Mianecki
The Story of Toilets, Fish, Spiders, and People: Finding the Chemicals That Impact Hormones
![Kody Waldstein](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Kody-Waldstein-landscape_portrait.jpg)
![Megan Small](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Megan-Small_landscape_portrait.jpg)
![Maggie Carolan](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Maggie-Carolan_landscape_portrait.jpg)
![Runqing Qi](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Runqing-Qi_landscape_portrait_0.jpg)
![Thapelo Whitfield](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/2024-07/Thapelo-Whitfield-landscape_portrait_0.jpg)