Application Submission Deadline
- TBD for 2025 - End of January-Early February
Virtual Preliminary Competition
- End of January-Early February
In-Person Final Competition
- 3rd week in February
MAGS CompetitionÂ
- 3MT Winner advances to MAGS Competition which is typically the first week in April
- Graduate students enrolled in any Master's program at ¾«¶«AV may compete.
- The degree program need not formally require a thesis, but topic must cover an original research project.
- There will be one preliminary round of virtual judging with top choices selected to advance to final in-person ¾«¶«AV competition.
- Gift card prize awarded to peer choice award and competition winners.
- Competition winner advances on to
- One single static PowerPoint slide permitted, but not required. Slide transitions, animations or ‘movement’ of any description of slide content not allowed.
- No additional electronic media (e.g., sound and video files) or props (e.g., notecards, scripts, pointers, costumes, instruments, lab equipment) permitted.
- Presentations limited to 3 minutes; competitors exceeding that are disqualified.
- Presentations are to be spoken word (e.g., no poems, raps or songs).
- Presentations are considered to have begun when a presenter begins via movement or speech.
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Developed by , the Three Minute Thesis competition cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
- Visit the University of Queensland website above for tips on how to craft your presentation and watch example videos from past winners.
The ¾«¶«AV Graduate School hosted its first annual 3-Minute Thesis, Essay, or Creative Project Competition virtually in 2021. The 2022 competition was offered as a hybrid event and can be viewed on the .
Past Winners
2023
Competition & Peer Choice Winner: Katelyn Gobbie
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Project Title: The Biocrust Canopy Beneath Your Feet
2022
Competition & Peer Choice Winner: Emily Staufer
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Project Title: Toxic Toads: Characterizing Chemical Defenses in Understudied Poison Frogs
2021
Competition & Peer Choice Winner: Kelsey Garner
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Project Title: Assessment of Differential Behavioral Syndromes in Genetically Distinct Clades of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)