UMD Three-Minute Thesis Competition

The 2025 Final Round 3MT Competition was hosted on April 16, 2025.

View the Recording Here

3MT Award Winners of the 2025 Competition

Celia Chen – Information Studies
Kiersten Janjigian – Kinesiology/Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Hongjin Lu – Plant Sciences
Tifanee McCaskill – TLPL/Urban Education
Smrithan Ravichandran – Chemical Physics
Emily Woerner – Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health
 

3MT Finalists

Arseniy Braslavskiy – Economics
Alyssa Petersen – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Benjamin Lanham – Biochemistry
Grace Phelps – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Hannah Burchard – Animal and Avian Sciences
Jiannan Xu – Decision, Operations and Information Technologies
Karoline Trovato – Psychology
Kathleen Evans – Entomology
Rajan Jayasankar – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Sagnik Bhattacharya – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shantanu Vachhani – Mechanical Engineering
Xiechen Zheng – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yan Li – Physics
Yiming Zhang – Geographical Sciences

The 3MT competition challenges students to communicate the significance of their research projects to a non-specialist audience in just THREE MINUTES! The University of Maryland Graduate School invites graduate students from all disciplines to compete in the annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT).   

Each year the campus holds a 3MT Competition.  Students are asked to register for the competition in February.  The first round occurs in March and the Final Round is in April. 

Participation in the 3MT competition provides students with...

~Experience in presentation skills and public speaking
~Better perspective about how their research fits into the larger picture
~An opportunity to showcase their work to colleagues and prospective employers
~Networking opportunities with students and faculty on campus
~Recognition and prizes