Pravrutha Raman, a doctoral candidate in the Biological Sciences Program, has been named winner of the fifth annual University of Maryland Three Minute Thesis competition, held April 4 during Graduate Research Appreciation Day (GRAD) at the University of Maryland campus. In the Three Minute Thesis contest, created by the University of Queensland (Australia), competitors explain their research and its impact to an educated lay audience in just three minutes.

Three graduate students from the University of Maryland have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright research fellowship. Saswathi Natta (Sociology), Samuel Miner (History), and Thomas 

The Graduate School is hosting the fifth annual Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition during Graduate Research Appreciation Day (GRAD) on April 4. The 3MT competition challenges doctoral students to communicate the significance of their research projects to an educated, non-specialist audience in just three minutes. The nine finalists for the UMD competition will present live on April 4 from 11:30-12:30 pm in the Charles Carroll Room of the Stamp Student Union. The finalists for the 2018 contest are: