#  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