2021 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® 2021 Award Winners
First Place: $500 Cash
Second Place: $250 Cash
People’s Choice: $250 Cash
Cash awards provided by the Graduate Student Association
Top 10 Finalists
Extraction Efficiency Testing of Degraded Bone Samples: Comparing Four Extraction Methods for Use in Downstream Massively Parallel Sequencing Applications
Emily Deem – First Place
Biology – M.S.
H.D.’s Waves: A Modernist Confluence of Literature, Science, and Spirituality
Stephanie Cook – Second Place
English – M.A.
Reviewing a Framework for Concealable Stigma in Communication Disorders: Addressing Adverse Outcomes and Promoting Inclusion
Nicholas Fasanello – People’s Choice
Communication Sciences and Disorders – M.S.
Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Locusts of the Southern Appalachians
Brandon Wheeler
Biology – M.S.
Towards a Better First Year Composition Experience
J.B. Bost
English – M.A.
A Closer Look at Africa in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
Emily Gaddy
English – M.A.
Bleak House: Mirrors as Criticism
Kyle Ratsch
English – M.A.
Coquetting with Truth: The Erosion of Earnestness in Dickens’s Bleak House
Tess Perdue
English – M.A.
Student-Athlete Identity Exploration and the Effect on Career Maturity
Jacob Lowman
Higher Education Student Affairs – M.ED.
Perceptions and Lived Experiences of Black Americans in Funding Funerals and how do they impact bereavement
Laura Hanna-Sturgell
Social Work – M.S.W.