Northern Michigan University has announced the winners of its 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. NMU graduate students and McNair scholars presented their original research in only three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience, and with only one static PowerPoint slide.
The winners received prizes for their accomplishments, and graduate student first-place winner Kaylee Mercer will be eligible to represent NMU at the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools 3MT competition in early April.
Final results, including the contestant names and titles of their presentations, follow:
Graduate Students:
1st: Mercer, "The Impact of Social Anxiety on Neural Responsiveness to Social Reward Through Social Media and Problematic Social Media Use."
2nd: Giuseppe Capello Real, "The Effect of the Bilateral Limb Deficit on Change of Direction and Linear Sprint in Division II Soccer Players."
People's Choice: Vanessa Steigauf, "The Effect of an Acute Bout of Rock Climbing on Prefrontal Cortex-Dependent Cognitive Functioning."
McNair Scholars:
1st: Trinity Valentin, "Evaluating Variation in Aboveground Biomass of Industrial Hemp Using an Integration of Field and Remote-Sensing Methods."
2nd: Shitaye Sam, "Implementation of an Educational, Cost-Focused Intervention to Reduce Cigarette Smoking and Vaping Rates In a Sample of Adults in the Midwest."
People's choice: Trinity Valentin, "Evaluating Variation in Above-ground Biomass of Industrial Hemp Using an Integration of Field and Remote-Sensing Methods."
This year's 3MT competition at NMU was held as part of the PEAK25 conference. NMU began its annual participation in 3MT in 2018. The University of Queensland developed the competition format a decade earlier to cultivate students' academic, presentation and research commmunication skills.
