The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry hosted its annual Sci-athon competition with the theme “From Waste to Wealth: Turning Trash into Treasure.”

Ten graduate students present their research – with a three-minute time limit – in Oct. 30 Three Minute Thesis competition at UNC-Chapel Hill.

At the annual Three Minute Thesis competition finals, 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate students had only three minutes to explain their months — or years — of research.

In UNC-Chapel Hill’s second-annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, held Nov. 1. Patrick Lang, a doctoral student in cell biology and physiology, won the competition and advances to the March 2017 regional competition in Annapolis, Md.