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.
Tianlu Zhang
Winner
- Program: Second Language Acquisition
- Frenemy: A Relationship Between Native Language and Second Language
Muhammad Taifur Rahman
Honorable Mention
- Program: Biology
- Preventing auditory neuron degeneration with an anti-inflammatory medicine
Hannah Campbell
- Program: Biochemistry
Asif Rahman
- Program: Geography
Melissa Airy
- Program: Art
- An Artistic Depiction: The Power of Community on Pilgrimage
Miriam Janechek
- Program: English
- Children's Literature and Belief: A 19th-Century Focus
Brandon MacDougall
- Program: Geography
- Camera Trapping For Urban Biodiversity Conservation
Amanda Mollet
- Program: Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- “Being invisible isn’t a privilege”: Examining asexual identity development