2024 3MT: Three Minute Thesis
Videos from the 2024 3-Minute Thesis Competition
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. While the original competition was for graduate students, a number of colleges are now sponsoring undergraduate competitions. The Writing Center sponsored Harvard's first undergraduate Three-Minute Thesis competition in April 2019. 3MT offers seniors the opportunity to create an accessible and interesting presentation of their senior thesis research for an audience of non-specialists.
First Prize
LyLena D. Estabine (Sociology): Shaping Chicago: How Trust and Ownership Influence Community Engagement
Second Prize
Justin Hu (Romance Languages/Literature; History): Studying with Césaire: How a Colonial High School Helped Change the World
Third Prize
Jacob Winter (Economics): Doctors or Dealers? Investigating the Link Between Prosecuting Overprescribing Doctors and Opioid-Involved Deaths
Finalists
Hemanth Asirvatham (Economics): The Dynamo Is Not The Computer: A Historical Exploration of What Makes Tech Adoption Faster
Rebecca Buehler (Romance Languages/Literature; Government): "Women and Children First": The Problem of Gender Essentialisms in Humanitarian Media
Steven Cho (Electrical Engineering): Transceiverless Radio Frequency Based Human Rescue in Avalanche Disasters
Mira-Rose Kingsbury Lee (History; HEB): The Forgotten Microbes: Reconsidering the 'Golden Age' of Microbiology (Video unavailable)
Nikita Nair (Integrative Biology/Astrophysics): "Your Brain on Space: Examining the Effects of Microgravity on the Cerebellum
Yasmine Omri (Electrical Engineering): Towards a Real-Time Image to Speech Tool for the Visually Impaired: Efficient Hardware for On-device Machine Learning
June Park (Government): "Teach Me Why and How to Vote. Then I’ll Vote": The Effects of High School Voter Registration Drives
Mireya Sanchez-Maes (TDM/English): Writing the New Mexican Comedy Play
Erik Zou (HAA/Statistics): Painting by Pixels: Exploring Digital Color in Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral Paintings