More than 400 graduate students received internal or external funding for their research endeavors.

At our annual 3MT competition, graduate students have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their (often complex) research to a non-specialist audience. Our latest competition was nothing short of impressive.

Graduate student Mackenna Wood with the Department of Physics and Astronomy took the top prize during The Graduate School’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition. 

The Graduate School announces its top-ten finalists for its upcoming Three Minute Thesis competition, to be held on October 11.

Ava Vargason took the top prize during The Graduate School’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition.

Winners for 2020 are: FIRST PLACE ($1000): Jeliyah Clark (Environmental Sciences and Engineering) – Eating for Two: Mother’s Diet as an Intervention for Arsenic-Induced Lower Birth Weight SECOND PLACE ($600): Meryem Ok (Biomedical Engineering) – Human Intestine on a Dish … Read more

Suzanne Barbour: Tar Heel Bus Tour, Three Minute Thesis and peer review workshop show the many ways graduate students inspire and succeed

Alison Mercer-Smith, an M.D./Ph.D. student who is completing her doctoral work in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the UNC-Chapel Hill Three Minute Thesis (3MT) campus winner.

The public is invited to attend the annual event, in which 10 students present their research in just three minutes; the campus winner will compete in the March 2020 regionals.

The University of Queensland developed the 3MT in 2008 and more than 600 universities in 65 countries now hold their own competitions.