2023 Finalists
David Ramotowski, Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD - Unlikely Heroes: Keeping Toxic PCBs Out of Our Air With Bacteria and Biochar
Samuel Taylor, Geography PhD - Better Protection Through Better Prediction: Climate-Resilient Debris-Flow Modeling
Maaz Musa, Computer Science PhD - Unveiling the Digital Veil: Empowering Transparency and Accountability in Online Privacy
Yazeed Alabbad, Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD - Empowering Communities Against Floods
Amanda Heiderscheit, Immunology PhD - Living with Uncertainty: A Quest for Management of a Rare Kidney Disease
Akansha Jain, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics PhD - Misaligned feet: the root cause of an immotile cilia airway disease
Karthika Kelat, Biomedical Engineering PhD - Tackling Radiologists' Errors to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Maddi Lensing, Immunology PhD - The Battle Within: Harnessing Tregs to Combat Hair Loss
Sarina Murray, Cancer Biology PhD - What does Michael Myers from the Halloween film and Uveal Melanoma have in common?
Winter Philibert, Biomedical Engineering PhD - Shear Coincidences and Fixing Broken Mucociliary Escalators
Austin Tang, Geography PhD - How can we resist antibiotic resistance?
Yan Xu, Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD - Boosts immunity for oral health
2022 Finalists
Mayo Akinbo, Immunology PhD - TIM3 on DCs Helps Fight Viruses
Kassie Baron, English PhD - The Difference a Mill Girl Makes
Berkley Conner, Rhetoric, Culture & Engagement PhD, Containing Menstruation - "Protecting" the Nation
Jace Heath, Immunology PhD - An investigation into the post-thymic regulation and function of the CD5 co-receptor in T cells
Amanda Heiderscheit, Immunology PhD - A novel biomarker for chronic kidney disease: C3 glomerulopathy
Tahsin Khataei, Health & Human Physiology - No Pain No Gain" vs "All Pain No Gain
Vingie Ng, Human Toxicology PhD - Vaping vs. Asthma: Smoking without the Smoke
Winter Philibert, Biomedical Engineering PhD - Nitric Oxide: A Key to New Respiratory Disease Treatments
Riley Post, Civil Engineering PhD - Can Little Ponds Fight Big Floods?
Nimesh Pasan Ranasinghe, Chemistry PhD - Membrane Science: A solution for major global challenges
Austin Santhin, Immunology PhD - Vaccines from Trees: You'll be saying "Yes Please!"
Piyumi Wijesirigunawardana, Organic Chemistry PhD - Investigating a cure for Alzheimer's
Konna Zoga, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering - Thermal treatment of biofilm infections: the next step
2021 Finalists
Amanda Bullert, Occupational and Environmental Health, From the Window, From the Wall, to the Brain
Andrea Malek Ash, Teaching and Learning - Science Education, Measuring Invisible Things
Levi Kirby, Industrial Engineering, Protecting Those, Protecting Us: A 3D Printing Approach to Safer Explosives
Darcy Diesburg, Psychology, Beta Bursts: Signatures of Our Brain's Braking System
Hannah Zadeh, Sociology, The Genealogy of Racialized Method: eGFR as Case Study
Emily Steinbach, Free Radical and Radiation Biology, Unfiltered Topics: Long-Term Kidney Toxicity In Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Novel Therapeutic Intervention
Ellen Upton, Immunology, The Role of ISG15 in Cellular Protection from Pathogens
Jeehan Malik, Computer Science, How do vulnerable road users respond to traffic safety information presented to them through technology?
Bethanny Sudibyo, Spanish, Imperial Imaginings: Representations of Religion, Race, and Gender in 19th Century Spanish-Philippine Novels
Yuehong (Cassandra) Tai, Political Science, Pandemic vs. Vaccine Hesitancy: Trust Matters
Andrew Voigt, Biomedical Science - Molecular Medicine, Location, Location, Location: What Makes the Macular Retina Unique?
2020 Finalists
Maggie Carolan, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Surveying Radium in Iowa Private Drinking Water Wells
Ivy Debreceni, Immunology, Determining early signals that lead to Sjögren Syndrome
Nyema M. Harmon, Chemistry, Switching on the Lights Within Cells
Megan Lindmark, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Hey Siri, How’s My Water quality? Smart Drinking Water Systems for Central America
Alyssa Mianecki, Civil & Environmental Engineering, The Story of Toilets, Fish, Spiders, and People: Finding the Chemicals That Impact Hormones
Stephanie Peterson, Immunology, A Fructose Rich Diet May Impact Disease by Influencing the Gut Microbiome
Runqing Qi, Second Language Acquisition, An Instructional Model for Reading Authentic Chinese Texts
Megan Small, Music, A Song Unsung: The Music of Water Ballet
Kody Waldstein, Immunology, Mutations and Viruses: Small Changes with Deadly Results
Thapelo Whitfield, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations, Differential Item Functioning Analysis of Campus Climate Survey Data
Emily Wieder, French & Francophone World Studies, Being, Seeming, Resisting: Claude Cahun
2019 Finalists
Rasheid Smith, Pharmacy, Cancer Immunotherapy: A Viral Approach
Barbara Kagima, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, Geographic Health Disparities: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
Claire Muerdter, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pollution Processing by Vegetation: Protecting Water, Food, and Environmental Quality
Haydar Al-Jaafari, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Biofilm Elimination on Biomedical Devices
Hannah Molitor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, From Toxic to Tasty: Nutritious Algal Protein from Waste
Murphy Keller, Immunology, Infection Hijacks Cellular Communication
Nazmin Akter Eti, Human Toxicology, Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB), Fish Consumption, and Miscarriages: An Untold Story
Hadley Galbraith, French and Italian, Bigidi and Re-Creating the Memory of Survival: Resisting Slavery in Literature, Film, and Performance
Vahid Eghbal Akhlaghi, Business Analytics, Fuel Distribution Planning for Disasters on Islands
2019 3MT Showcase
2018 Finalists
Hannah Campbell, Biochemistry, Cells That Work Together, Stay Together
Amanda Mollet, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies (Higher Education & Student Affairs), “Being invisible isn’t a privilege”: Examining Asexual Identity Development
Asif Rahman, Geography, Social Vulnerability to River Floods in the U.S.
Miriam Janechek, English, Children's Literature and Belief: A 19th-Century Focus
Brandon MacDougall, Geography, Camera Trapping For Urban Biodiversity Conservation
Melissa Airy, Art & Art History, An Artistic Depiction: The Power of Community on Pilgrimage
2018 3MT Showcase
2017 Finalists
Ali Al-Jumaili, Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Socioeconomics)
Anh-Vu Do, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Behnoush Khorsand, Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics
Brandon MacDougall, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences
Caitlin Marley, Classics
Emily Malcolm, Biochemistry
Eric Emmons, Neuroscience
Ernane Souza, Pharmacy (Medicinal & Natural Prod Chem)
Jessica Gregson, Microbiology
Lalita Oonthonpan, Biochemistry
Lucas Bon Durant, Molecular and Cellular Biology
2017 3MT Showcase
Spring 2016 Finalists
Amber Bates, Methods to Study Inflammation in the Mouth
Caitlin Cosme, The Role of the Insular Cortex in Cocaine Relapse
Sebastian De Pascuale, Voyage of the Van Allen Probes on the Shore of Space
Michael Freedberg, Reward, Punishment, and Skill Acquisition
Richard Ligo, The Mobius Energy of Weighted Knots
Katherine Peter, Nanomaterial-Enabled Drinking Water Treatment Technologies
Allison Songstad, The Vision to Cure Blindness
Shiyi Wang, Preventing Suicide by Understanding Brain Disorders
Crystal Wotipka, Embracing the Screen of Mediated Environments: An Exploration of the Buffer Effect's Role in Communication Surrounding Transgressions
Fall 2016 Finalists
Anh-Vu Do, Using Ultrasound to Enhance Tumor Cell Killing
Vijay Permeswaran, Reverse Shoulder Replacement
Magdalene Ameka, Lose the Weight by Ignoring the Fat
Laura Kuhlman, The Beat Goes On: Women Writers of the Beat Generation
Erica Ricker, Implant Infection Mitigation
Madhur Joshi, Access to Aza-heterocycles: Key to a Better Future
Ali Al-Jumaili, Towards a Better Work System in Nursing Homes
Ying Hsu, What Happens When Elevators Break Down in Photoreceptor Cells?
Kareem Ebeid, Targeted Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment
Tim Chung, Will it Rupture?
Kathryn Brightbill, Explaining Analyst Bias: Uncertainty & Time
Rachel Anderson, The Effects of Chronic Corticosterone on the Female Rodent Brain
Sara Knox, How Helpful Are Specific Techniques in Online Counseling?
Suvendra Vijayan, Accuracy and Reliability of Using Bio 3D Printed Prostheses
Nyla Balakrishnan, Integration of Oral Health and Chronic Diseases