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. All finalists were offered the opportunity to work with a writing tutor and a public speaking tutor to craft their final presentations.
First prize
Yiping Li (Psychology)
Infants’ Inferences About Insides
Second prize
Brian Yu (Computer Science and Linguistics)
Authorship Attribution: In Search of a Linguistic Fingerprint
Third prize
Hilda Jordan (Philosophy and African American Studies)
How should we think about racial identities?
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Ashri Anurudran (Economics)
Empower to Eliminate: A Randomized Evaluation of a Sexual Violence Prevention Program in Kisumu, Kenya
Victor Agbafe (Government)
Income Security and Health
Rana Bansal (Economics)
Does Cash Matter for Trade? Evidence from India
Maya Chung (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Down with Density: A New Way to Quantify Ocean Warming due to Climate Change
Melissa Dreier (Psychology)
Food, the Body, and the Peanut: Examining What it Means to Think Often About What We Eat
Ayanna Dunmore (Environmental Science and Public Policy)
Hurricanes Do Not Cause Disasters – People Do
Evan MacKay (Sociology)
Beyond the Vote: Felony Disenfranchisement, Exclusion, and Belonging
Gabriella Monico (Economics)
Brazil’s Magic Bean: The Impact of Historic Coffee Plantations on Development Today
Zaria Smalls (Design Engineering and Social Change)
Designed to Distract