The Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals (PFFP) Annual Pathways Conference includes the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) and Three Minute Pitch (3MP) competitions. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) celebrates the exciting research conducted by PhD students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
Win $500 in just 3 minutes! All you have to do is talk about your scholarly work. Find out more about the 3MT and 3MP competitions by viewing the Information Session webinar.
2021 IUPUI Three Minute Thesis / Three Minute Pitch Competition Winners Announced
Picture this. You wrote hundreds of pages and spent countless hours on your thesis or dissertation. Now you have only three minutes to explain your work to a lay audience. That’s what several students did in the 2021 Three Minute Thesis and Three Minute Pitch Competitions. Why would they subject themselves to this stress? The opportunity to win cash and present at a regional level competition!
12 PhD students participated in the 2021 IUPUI Three Minute Thesis Competition, which occurred during the annual Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals (PFFP) Annual Pathways Conference in late November.
Shonda Nicole Gladden, School of Liberal Arts, won the competition. The runner-up was Sailee Lavekar, School of Science, and the People's Choice Award winner was Hayley Drodz, School of Medicine.
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®), developed by The University of Queensland, cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
The Three Minute Thesis competition requires students to communicate their research to a lay audience in a very concise manner which can be quite the challenge. We were thrilled with the level of participation and quality of presentations,” said Tabitha Hardy, Ph.D., assistant vice chancellor of graduate education, assistant dean and director of the PFFP program in the IUPUI Graduate Office.
Gladden's topic was “The Soil of Our Grandmother’s Gardens: Womanist Visual Culture Unearthed from Antebellum American Plantation-Themed Cinema.” Gladden won $500 and will represent IUPUI at the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this upcoming spring.
While the Three Minute Thesis Competition is for PhD students, the Three Minute Pitch (3MP) is for master’s and professional students. The winner of this competition was Julie Marie Frye, School of Education with the topic “Care in a Border Town Public Library.” Frye won $400. The 3MP runner up was Jeevana Maddineni, School of Informatics and Computing with the topic of “Knowledge representation of translating first-time pregnancy experiences.” Jeevana was also the People’s Choice Award winner and therefore won a total of $550 for both wins.
Daenique Jengelly, 3MT Award winner and People's Choice Award winner, with Tabitha Hardy at the 2020 Pathways Conference.
Isheka Orr, 3MP Award winner and People's Choice Award winner, with Tabitha Hardy at the 2020 Pathways Conference.
Elizabeth Swallow 3MT Award winner, with Tabitha Hardy at the 2019 Pathways Conference. Elizabeth’s topic was “Holes - why do we care?"
Swapnali Chavan 3MP Award winner, with Tabitha Hardy at the 2019 Pathways Conference. Swapnali’s topic was “Are Older women being pushed out of labor force?”
Sarvesh Chelvanambi, 3MT Award winner, with Tabitha Hardy at the 2018 Pathways Conference. Sarvesh’s topic was “The persistence of HIV viral protein Nef and the perplexingly high prevalence of vascular disease in HIV patients”
Grady Kepler, 3MP Award winner, with Tabitha Hardy at the 2018 Pathways Conference. Grady’s topic was “The Language Teacher's Imperative: Understanding Learner Responsiveness to Innovative Instruction”
Antja-Voy Hartley, from Pharmacology in the IU School of Medicine, was the first place winner of the 2017 3MT Competition. Pictured here with Dr. Tabitha Hardy. Hartley's topic was “What you know can kill you: targeting unique features of cancer cells for drug development”
People's Choice Winner, Janet Panoch, Communication Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts. Pictured here with Dr. Tabitha Hardy. Panoch's topic was “Preparing High School Students to Communicate Effectively with Healthcare Professionals”
