The 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) challenges students to communicate the significance of their projects without the use of props or industry jargon, in just three minutes. The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and help students' learn to quickly explain their research to a non-specialist audience leaving them wanting to know more.
3MT 2019 will take place Friday, November 8, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Coffman Memorial Union Theater (room 110).
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2019 Finalists
ELIZABETH ABRAHAM, DOCTORAL STUDENT
- Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of Tribal Farmers Managing Misdirection: Learning to Look in All the Right Places
- Work and Human Resource Education, College of Education & Human Development
CAITLIN SISK, DOCTORAL STUDENT
- Managing Misdirection: Learning to Look in All the Right Places
- Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
GEORGE FUREY, DOCTORAL STUDENT
- Can a Diversity of Prairie Plants Build a Fertile Soil?
- Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
MARIE GILBERTSON, DOCTORAL STUDENT
- Stopping a Deadly Virus in Florida Panthers
- Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
ILSE RENNER, DOCTORAL STUDENT
- Light Signals Increase Cancer-Prevention Power of Cabbage
- Applied Plant Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences
SUMMER TRAN, DOCTORAL STUDENT
- The Moon Shot & Immunotherapy
- Social & Administrative Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy
2019 Judges
RICHARD CHIN
Reporter, Star Tribune
BILL HALDEMAN
Senior Assistant to the President, University of Minnesota
KAO LY ILEAN HER
University of Minnesota Regent, Chief Executive Officer of the Hmong Elders Center
KRISTIN MAKHOLM
Executive Director, Minnesota Museum of American Art
NEKEY OLIVER
Manager of Grants and Government Relations, Minnesota Office of Higher Education