2024 Three Minute Thesis Competition
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Event Recap
The Graduate School and 蜜桃影像 held the 3MT庐 competition on February 23, 2024. The Three Minute Thesis is a global research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland in Australia. It is an academic competition for doctoral and master鈥檚 degree students that require each participant to explain his or her research effectively in three minutes, using one slide, with no animation.
The final competition was judged by Dr. Kathleen Cepelka, Superintendent Emerita, Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Schools and 蜜桃影像 Alumna; Dr. Kimo Ah Yun, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, 蜜桃影像; Ms. Lindsey St. Arnold Bell, Executive Director of Avenues West and the Near West Side Partners; and Mr. Arvind Gopalratnam, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Milwaukee Bucks.
Congratulations to this year's winner Armin Ebrahimian and runner-up and People's Choice Award winner Haozhi Huang!
Armin Ebrahimian earned first place with his talk, 鈥淒esigning the Future: Aviation Class Electric Propulsion System,鈥� communicating his research in power electronics for electric aircraft applications. Armin will move on to represent 蜜桃影像 at the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools regional competition.
The Runner-Up as well as the People's Choice award was awarded to Haozhi Huang with his presentation, "Curcumin Modulates Neuroinflammation to Improve Breathing after Spinal Cord Injury.".
Congratulations and thank you to our winners and competitors from this year鈥檚 competition! It was incredible to learn about the research from our graduate students.