2018 3MT Finalist
![Miriam Janechek](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Janechek_web.jpg?h=0b5b5cde&itok=Tjk35BAt)
Miriam Janechek
Miriam Janechek is a doctoral candidate in the English Department and will defend her dissertation in May 2019. Under the direction of Dr. Lori Branch
![Asif Rahman](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Rahman_A_web_1.jpg?h=0cdbaf97&itok=VP58KMoV)
Asif Rahman
Asif is a third year PhD student at the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences and works with Professor Eric Tate. He completed his MS
![Melissa Airy](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Airy_web.jpg?h=5ed4a3f2&itok=RXI7Z6rT)
Melissa Airy
Melissa is a second year Masters of Fine Arts candidate studying intermedia art. She was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, IA and completed her BFA in
![Hannah Campbell](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Campbell_web.jpg?h=dd69cf94&itok=VJGtc-_F)
Hannah Campbell
Hannah is a fourth-year biochemistry graduate student in Dr. Kris DeMali’s lab. She completed her BS in biochemistry at the University of Iowa and was
![Amanda Mollet](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Mollet_web_0.jpg?h=173484c5&itok=FP3rQCxv)
Amanda Mollet
Amanda is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies. She completed her PhD in May 2018 from the
![Brandon MacDougall](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/MacDoughall_1.jpg?h=0fc491a5&itok=tZsOeyZq)
Brandon MacDougall
Graduate school provides Brandon with the ability to pursue knowledge to his own level of satisfaction, surpassing the bounds set in an undergraduate
![Oronde Drakes](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Drakes_web.jpg?h=c0dfebf1&itok=ncdyrvzQ)
Oronde Drakes
Oronde is a PhD student in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography from the
![Timothy Acri](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Acri_web.jpg?h=5b0b887d&itok=m4YRMeya)
Timothy Acri
Timothy is driven towards tissue engineering because it combines his passion for engineering with his love of medicine. On this path, he received his
![Muhammad Taifur Rahman](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Rahman_M_web.jpg?h=c93cc4b9&itok=97kLzXIv)
Muhammad Taifur Rahman
Taifur completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Dhaka Medical College in Bangladesh, where his interest in neurological disorders developed
![Tianlu Zhang](/sites/grad.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1312_x_738/public/2021-01/Zhang_2_web.jpg?h=a3fb1113&itok=DN5tCbnD)
Tianlu Zhang
Tianlu holds an MA degree in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and is a fifth-year doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition at the