#  2025 3MT: Three Minute Thesis 

 



## **Videos from the 2025 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. You can see videos from our 2024 competition [here](https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/2024-3mt-three-minute-thesis).



 

##  First Prize 

Antara Bhattacharya (Linguistics/Computer Science): Comparing Number Understanding in Language Models and Humans Through Multilingual Reasoning Puzzles



 

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##  Second Prize 

Matine Khalighi (Economics/NELC): Behind the Headlines: What Shapes Iranians' Trust in Their Government?



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

##  Third Prize 

David Brown (Applied Math): High Altitude Balloons to Revolutionize Environmental Monitoring



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

##  Finalists 

 

Matthew Allana (History): Scrambled Signals: The Marconi Affair and the Politics of Scandal



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Audrey Chang (Statistics/Computer Science): Trust Me, I'm Calibrated: Addressing Overconfident Predictions of Atypical Samples in Regression



 

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Soy Choi (Mechanical Engineering): The Future Is in Our Hands: My Buddy, Armando



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Onovughakpor Otitigbe Dangerfield (Biomedical Engineering): Rhythms in Motion: Reclaiming Music as Medicine for Gait Rehabilitation



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Edward Dong (Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology): Using RNA Fingerprints to Enable Precision Gene Delivery



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Conner Huey (Government/History): The Progressive Paradox: How the Democratic Party Won in Rural Western Washington, 1976 to 2024



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Min Ko Ko (Social Studies): The Lost Golden Age of Children's Rights in America



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Nia Weeks (Theater, Dance & Media): Are You Afraid of the Dark? Addressing Mental Health Disparities Through Theatrical Horror