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Fall 2022 3MT® Competition | The Heats

Please join us for the preliminary Heats - the first round of the 3MT® Competition, where graduate students will be rising to the challenge of presenting their research in 3 minutes or less using a single PowerPoint slide!

Tuesday, November 1 | 2:00 p.m. | Burge Union

Meet the judges

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

  • Collage of images depicting what applications look like, topic modeling, and decision modeling. The takeaway is that GPA, GRE predicted admissions; university honors, prior coursework, and endorsement of potential predicted denial.

    James Adaryukov - Doctoral student in Psychology

    Weight and See: How Graduate Admissions Decisions Use Verbal and Numeric Information

  • World view through the rapid image viewer with enlarged images of environmental hazards: fire, flood, drought.

    Kenneth Ekpetere - Doctoral Student in Geography

    From Flood to Drought to Fire: Visualizing and Monitoring Environmental Hazards through the Lens of the Rapid Image Viewer (RIV)

  • Three Minute Thesis slide with an image in the center of a fingerprint being scanned, with images on the left side of a baby and an older man at the doctor's office with the nurse holding a syringe and on the right side, images of diseased and healthy patient's fingerprint lipids.

    Madeline Isom - Doctoral Student in Chemistry

    Disease Diagnosis at our Fingertips

  • The first image portrays a person putting puzzle pieces together, followed by images of a cancer cell that show the pace of the exchange taking place.

    Sachini Karunaratne - Doctoral student in Chemistry

    Antibody Drug Conjugates: A Fight Against Cancer

  • The first section of the image shows the problem focused on the more than 80 different types of autoimmune disorder, leading to therapeutics, treatment and response variability. The second section focuses on the approach, which shows and endogenous and exogenous metabolism, leading to metabolome (input), processing and biological networks (output).

    Amar Kumar - Doctoral student in Computational Biology

    Metabolomics : A Comprehensive Approach to Achieve Precision Medicine

  • Images of opals and a robot in Mars.

    Sarah Lamm, Doctoral student in Geology

    In Search of Kansas Opals for Mars Research

  • A view of the Milky Way depicting where we are and showing satellites and different kinds of waves traveling through space.

    Xinyu Mai - Doctoral student in Physics

    A Detailed look at Cosmic Neighborhood: The Center of the Milky Way

  • Screenshots of victim stories and posts from other people on Twitter, while also showing some statistics: 100 tweets were analyzed, 300 victims, 15 victims filed complaints, and 46 recorded videos of rape.

    Zahra Mansoursharifloo - Doctoral student in Sociology

    Online social movements: A Case Study of #MeToo in Persian Twitter

  • The center image portrays an eye, followed by an image of a child and an adult, a fish, and a reward chamber.

    Sayuri Niyangoda, Doctoral student in Chemistry

    Alzheimer's Disease through the Eyes of a Fish

  • Two paintings - one of them depicting Kim Ki-chang's Myeongnyang Battle (1597), 1975 and Mun Hak-jin's 1919 Independence Movement Day, 1976

    Hae Jeong Yoon - Doctoral student in History of Art

    Copy and Paste, Edit the Present: Documenting Glory in 1970s South Korea

School of Education and Human Sciences

  • Two overlapping circles showing the intersection of critical literacy and trans-languaging for bilingual reading. On the right of the circles is a graph that shows Critical Reading Process at the center and five items associated with it: pre-reading questions, parallel reading, general discussion questions, targeted questions, and reflection.

    Jiahong Annie Wang - Doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction

    Using Translanguaging to Support English Language Learners' Critical Literacy Development

    School of Engineering

    • Sequence showing an autonomous vehicle in motion, leading to Bayesian Brain Inferring based on prior knowledge, and ending with a graphic of Bayesian Inference to find the Optimal Trajectory

      Iman Askari - Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering

      Inferential Control for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning

    • Collage portraying images related to refrigeration - preservation, storage, comfort, and manufacturing; environmental impact, focused on ozone depletion leading to global warming; refrigerant mixtures, such as a refrigerant mixture tank that can't be separated with conventional separation technology; a separation tower; and a final area showing how to re-use or re-purpose these refrigerant mixtures.

      Kalin Baca - Doctoral student in Chemical Engineering

      Recycling High Global Warming Potential Refrigerant Mixtures

    • Microchip in the center with a callout to a sample showing test tubes; a second callout showing a person in a lab coat, an injection and lab equipment; and a callout leading to an anwer.

      Katie Childers - Doctoral student in Bioengineering

      "Time is Brain": Developing a Blood Test to Diagnose Stroke

    • Heracles vs Hydra, where Hydra represents traditional antibiotics and Heracles represents antimicrobial peptides.

      Nicole D'Souza - Master's student in Bioengineering

      Defeating the Hydra: Combatting Antibiotic Resistance in Orthopedic Surgery

    • Image titled "Electrodes are like onions: Exploring the Electric Double Layer for Clinical Applications".

      Jordan Gamble - Doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering

      Electrodes are like Onions: Exploring the Electric Double Layer for Clinical Applications

    • There are two groups of images. On the left, a DNA strain, DNA sequences and a microbe are shown. On the right, the DNA sequences lead to genes/enzymes, which in turn lead to drug discovery.

      Sirisha Thippabhotla, Doctoral student in Computer Science

      Solving the Microbe Puzzle for Novel Gene Discovery

    School of Music

    • A photo of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in 1940

      Denise Finnegan-Hill - Doctoral student in Music

      The Kansas City Philharmonic: An Alternative Model for the Modern Orchestra

    • An image of a person relaxing on the grass, followed by a image of someone meditating and text that reads as follows: treat practicing as a science experiment, various methods, body mapping: what is it?, how she has brought it into the practice room as a musician, taking what we know into the outside world.

      Emily Riding - Master's student in Music

      Relaxation is not Relaxation is not Relaxation