2025 Graduate 3-Minute Thesis Competition
The 3MT competition is a presentation that lasts literally 3 minutes and highlights a student’s thesis, dissertation, business plan, or scholarly project. It was started at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2008 and has now spread to more than 350 universities across the world. The purpose of the presentation style is to train students to condense and highlight their scholarly work to an educated, but diverse audience in preparation for job interviews, business interactions, and conversations with colleagues both inside and outside of their discipline.
3MT® 2025 Award Winners
First Place: $500 Cash and $500 Spring Tuition Award
Second Place: $250 Cash and $250 Spring Tuition Award
People’s Choice: $250 Cash and $250 Spring Tuition Award
Cash awards provided by the Graduate Student Association
Top 10 Finalists
| 3MT Competitors | Program | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Belal Abuarqub | Engineering and Technology | Eliminating Interference: Redesigning Test Fixtures for Accurate Mountain Bike Analysis |
| Andy Coe | Educational Leadership | Equitable Advising: Helping First-Generation Students Find Their Way |
| Tyler Duncan | Project Management | The Family Legacy Network |
| Kayla Echevarria | Biology | Functional Significance of Vocal Plasticity in Urban Song Sparrows |
| Kristina Gray | Chemistry | Flooded with Microplastics |
| Watson Harlan | History | Democracy, Clergy and Warriors: Frontier Wars, Acculturation and Gendered Developments of Social Classes within the Cherokee Nation |
| Lynne Hudson | Fine Arts | Large Format Handmade Pigmented Paper |
| Cameron Robinson | Educational Leadership | Bridging the Gap: Identifying and Supporting Students with Unidentified Preexisting Mental Health Needs |
| Madeleine Rojas | Social Work | From Environmental Disaster to Environmental Justice: A Post-Helene Study |
| Kathryn Ross | School Psychology | Non-Autistic College Students’ Openness to Friendship with an Autistic Peer: The Roles of Attitudes and Knowledge |
2025 3MT Judges
3MT Judges
Dr. Darden, Assistant Professor, College of Business
Dr. Marie-Line Germain, Professor, Human Resources and Leadership
Dr. Sam Castelblanco, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Dr. Curtis Beimborn, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Physics
Dr. Melissa Mecadon-Mann, Assistant Professor, Counseling