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)
Winner & People's Choice
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
- No More PCBs in School Air
Elmira Jangjou
Honorable Mention
- Program: Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- The Lived Experience of Postsecondary Students with an On-Campus Food Pantry
Clarissa Shaw
Honorable Mention
- Program: Nursing
- Elderspeak: Nurse Communication in Hospital Dementia Care
Mariam El-Hattab
People's Choice
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- A Little Fat Never Hurt Anybody: How Fat Can Influence Wound Healing
Nyema Harmon
- Program: Chemistry
Megan Small
- Program: Music
Stephanie Peterson
- Program: Immunology
- A Fructose Rich Diet May Impact Disease by Influencing the Gut Microbiome
Runqing Qi
- Program: Second Language Acquisition
- An Instructional Model for Reading Authentic Chinese Texts
Ivy Debreceni
- Program: Immunology
- Determining Early Signals that Lead to Sjögren’s Syndrome
Emily Wieder
- Program: French and Francophone World Studies
Kody Waldstein
- Program: Immunology
- Mutations and Viruses: Small Changes with Deadly Results
Maggie Carolan
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Surveying Radium in Iowa Private Drinking Water Wells
Alyssa Mianecki
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
- The Story of Toilets, Fish, Spiders, and People: Finding the Chemicals That Impact Hormones
Thapelo Whitfield
- Program: Psychological and Quantitative Foundations - Educational Measurement and Statistics
- Differential Item Functioning Analysis of Campus Climate Survey Data
Megan Lindmark
- Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering - Sustainable Water Development
- Hey Siri, How’s My Water Quality? Smart Drinking Water Systems for Central America