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The 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition challenges graduate students to clearly and effectively communicate their research in just three minutes. Each year, awards are presented for First, Second, and Third Place, as well as a People’s Choice Award selected by the audience.

3MT Finalists and Winners 

  • 2025

    First Place
    Suman Poudel

    Master’s Student, Civil Engineering
    Presentation: Broken Steel Member to Blackout: Impact of Tornado Debris on Electric Transmission System

    Second Place
    Sydney Vieira

    Master’s Student, Agricultural Economics
    Presentation: Pines, Profits, and Carbon: Unlocking Marginal Land in Eastern Oklahoma

    Third Place
    Irene Lee

    Doctoral Student, Nutritional Sciences
    Presentation: Processed Ginsengs to Slow Down Biological Aging

    People’s Choice
    Silan Bhandari

    Doctoral Student, Chemistry
    Presentation: Electrochemical Meat

  • 2024

    First Place
    Kainat Ahmed

    Doctoral Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
    Presentation: HepB-Virus: The Party You Didn't Know Your Liver Was Throwing

    Second Place
    Pratikshya Paudel

    Doctoral Student, Chemistry
    Presentation:
    Beyond Pesticides: Targeting Moth Proteins for Sustainable Farming

    Third Place
    Bridget Broome

    Doctoral Student, Mathematics Education
    Presentation: Exploring the Relationship Between Multiplicative Double CountingState and Multiplication Fluency Level: A Mixed Methods Study

    People’s Choice
    Pratikshya Paudel

    Doctoral Student, Chemistry
    Presentation: Beyond Pesticides: Targeting Moth Proteins for Sustainable Farming

  • 2023

    First Place
    Jesse Hurd

    Integrative Biology
    Presentation: The Secret Life of the American Prairie Vole

    Second Place
    Isabel Tobin

    PhD Student, Animal Science
    Presentation: Leveraging Commensal Bacteria to Protect Chickens from Necrotic Enteritis

    Third Place
    Azmeen Rahman

    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Presentation: Will Your Implant Fry Your Heart?

    People’s Choice
    Femi Olawale

    PhD Student, Nutritional Sciences
    Presentation: Metabolic Disorders in Menopause: The Role of Pinto Beans

  • 2022

    First Place
    Grace Baxter

    Master’s Student, Agricultural Economics
    Presentation: Targeting Prime with Wagyu-Influenced Genetics

    Second Place
    Himidu Pitigala

    Doctoral Student, Integrative Biology
    Presentation: The Effects of the Skin Microbiome on Calling Behavior in Treefrogs

    Third Place
    Vanessa Claire Santos

    Doctoral Student, Comparative Biomedical Science
    Presentation: Viral and Cellular Proteins Cooperate for Herpes to Reactivate

    People’s Choice
    Azmeen Rahman

    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Presentation: Silicon for Faster Electronics

  • 2021

    First Place
    Christy Eslinger

    Doctoral Student, Biomedical Sciences
    Presentation: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

    Second Place
    Tameko Collins

    Master’s Student, Educational Psychology
    Presentation: Ditching the Lecture: Can Blended Learning Affect Motivation?

    Third Place
    Makenna Paniel

    Master’s Student, Plant and Soil Science
    Presentation: Where Goes Oklahoma?

    People’s Choice
    Kayla Loper

    Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
    Presentation: Defining and Evaluating Students' Sense of Belonging

  • 2020

    First Place
    Eva Kao

    Master’s Student, Veterinary Biomedical Science
    Presentation: A New Therapy to Improve Survival of Cats with Acute Cytauxzoonosis

    Second Place
    Alvin Ngo

    PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Presentation: Healing Wounds with Lightning

    Third Place
    Christine Watson

    Master’s Student, Materials Science and Engineering
    Presentation: Continuous Filtration of Produced Water Using Low-Cost Porous Ceramic Membranes

    People’s Choice
    Anmol Kajla

    Master’s Student, Horticulture
    Presentation: Shade: Is It Making Your Lawn Look Shady?