Grad students ready to compete in Three Minute Thesis Final
Dinesh Basker delivers his Three Minute Thesis during preliminary heats on Wednesday. Basker will be competing in the Final today at 1:30 pm in CIBC Hall.
The preliminary heats are over!
Fourteen graduate students from across McMaster University will be competing in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition on Thursday, February 12, at 1:30 p.m. in CIBC Hall, third floor of MUSC.
All are welcome to cheer on the competitors.
The finalists were chosen from a field of 33 competitors in four preliminary heats over the past two days. The challenge of the competition is to present your research – and its wider impact – to a non-specialist audience, in just three minutes and using only one static slide.
2015 finalists:
- Dinesh Basker from the Faculty of Science
- Anthony Gatti from the Faculty of Health Sciences
- Hamid Gholizadeh from the Faculty of Engineering
- Jenna Gillen from the Faculty of Science
- Linda Gillis from the Faculty of Science
- Teng Guo from the Faculty of Engineering
- Alexander Kuntz from the Faculty of Science
- Melissa McCardy from an interdisciplinary field
- Noeman Mirza from the Faculty of Health Sciences
- Caoileann Murphy from the Faculty of Science
- Paul Naphtali from the Faculty of Science
- Matt Pachai from the Faculty of Science
- Mai Yamamoto from the Faculty of Science
- Jessica Yu from the Faculty of Health Sciences
The winner of McMaster’s 3MT receives $1,000 and will represent McMaster at the Ontario 3MT Final at Western University on April 23.
The online People’s Choice Award will be open later this month. Watch the Graduate Studies website for details.
