The Graduate recognized a total of 4 winners at the 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition earlier this month after a myriad of outstanding performances by doctoral students ranging from business to music and more.
First-place winner Belen Fadrique,
Cancer Biology Ph.D. student
The winners were selected by an interdisciplinary panel of judges consisting of distinguished UM faculty members: Dr. John Bixby, Vice Provost for Research and Professor of Pharmacology and Neurological Surgery; Dr. Tim Watson, Chair and Associate Professor of the English Department; Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Vice Provost for Institutional Culture and Professor of Educational and Psychological Studies; and Dr. Charles Eckman, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian.
This year’s 3MT® Competition was part of Graduate Research across Disciplines (GRaD) Day, which was dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. The awards ceremony for the 3MT® Competition included the announcement of the winners from Graduate Student Research Symposium held earlier that day, who will also present their research at the 2018 Conference of Florida Graduate Schools.
Dr. Guillermo “Willy” Prado, Dean of the Graduate School, expressed his gratitude to a crowded audience for supporting this event on graduate research and voiced his admiration of the competitors on their outstanding performances, saying “our students did a phenomenal job and I am immensely proud of their hard work and dedication to the competition.”
The Graduate School congratulates all of the competitors of the 2018 3MT® Competition:
Kilan C. Ashad-Bishop, Cancer Biology, Miller School of Medicine- Julián Brijaldo, Composition, Frost School of Music
- Summer D. DeBastiani, Nursing, School of Nursing and Health Studies
- Belen Fadrique, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
- Haley Mathis, Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences
- Carter Morgan, Marketing, Miami School of Business
- Andrea M. Peters, Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering
- Narciso Quidley-Rodriguez, Nursing, School of Nursing and Health Studies
- Alvaro Ruiz Emparanza, Civil Engineering, College of Engineering
- Philip Staudigel, Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
For pictures of the 2018 3MT® Competition click here. To view the full recording of the competition, click here.
