Three Minute Thesis Finals

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges graduate students to communicate their research in three minutes or less in non-specialist language. Contestants represent a diverse array of disciplines and areas of study and reflect the passion and thirst for discovery common among all of Iowa's graduate students.

2018 FINALISTS:

• Hannah Campbell, Cells that work together, stay together.
• Oronde Drakes, Flooding and Suffering in America
• Amanda Mollet, “Being invisible isn’t a privilege”: Examining asexual identity development
• Muhammad Rahman, Preventing auditory neuron degeneration with an anti-inflammatory medicine
• Asif Rahman, Social Vulnerability to River Floods in the U.S.
• Miriam Janechek, Children's Literature and Belief: A 19th-Century Focus
• Brandon MacDougall, Camera Trapping For Urban Biodiversity Conservation
• Tianlu Zhang, Frenemy: A Relationship Between Native Language and Second Language
• Melissa Airy, An Artistic Depiction: The Power of Community on Pilgrimage
• Tim Acri, Bone tissue engineering: a gene delivery approach