2022 3MT Winners and Finalists

Winners

3MT winner announcement
Dean Graves announcing announcing the three first-place, second-place and People’s Choice Award recipients for the Three-Minute Thesis competition. Picture credit: Jack McClellan

Winner: Abigail Schulte

Major: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Presentation: Optimizing Solid-state Anaerobic Digestion of Prairie Grass and Dairy Manure

 

Runner Up: Abesh Bera

Major: Microbiology
Presentation: Biased Interaction of Different Tubulin Isotypes with Tumor Overexpressed Genes (TOG) Determines Cell Division Rate

People’s Choice Award: Abigail Koep

Major: Chemical Engineering
Presentation: Developing a Nanoscale Force-Mediated Drug Delivery System for Lung Fibrosis

 

Entire Event Video

 

Finalists

NameMajorPresentation Title
Abigail KoepChemical EngineeringDeveloping a Nanoscale Force-Mediated Drug Delivery System for Lung Fibrosis
Holly LoperMicrobiologyLarge Predictions and Small Changes in Fertilizer Use
Rachel SorensenToxicologyBreak Me Off a Piece of That Plas-tic Bar
Daria DilparicCivil Engineering (Environmental)PFAS: The Forever Chemical in Your Water
Abesh BeraMicrobiologyBiased Interaction of Different Tubulin Isotypes with Tumor Overexpressed Genes (TOG) Determines Cell Division Rate
Abigail SchulteAgricultural and Biosystems EngineeringOptimizing Solid-state Anaerobic Digestion of Prairie Grass and Dairy Manure
Parvin MohammadiarvejehIndustrial EngineeringDeveloping Machine Learning and Optimization Models to Recognize Super-Agers
Clayton CarleyGenetics & Genomics (Predictive Plant Phenomics) and Plant BreedingCounting the Nodules that Count