The 3MT competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), 3MT 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.
Participants in the 2019 3MT Pitt Competition.
The 2019 event was held April 1, 2019, in the Digital Scholarship Commons at Hillman Library and was co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the University Center for Teaching and Learning, and the University Library System.
2019 Eligibility Guidelines
The program is open to PhD students who have successfully completed the dissertation proposal defense (PhD candidate status) and are actively in the dissertation stage of training. To become a finalist in the 2019 Pitt Competition, students were required to have:
- Won your school-level competition:
- Katz Graduate School of Business competition, held March 20, 2019;
- Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences competition, held March 22, 2019;
- School of Computing and Information competition, held March 22, 2019;
- School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences competition, held March 21, 2019;
- Swanson School of Engineering competition, held March 20, 2019; or
- If no competition was held in their school, to have placed in the online competition.
2019 University Competition Winners
First Place Prize—$1,000 travel grant
Piyusha Gade
Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering
Rational Design of Vascular Grafts in Aged Hosts
Vice Provost Nathan Urban presents first-place prize to bioengineering student Piyusha Gade.
Runner Up and People's Choice Winner—$500 and $1,000 travel grants, respectively
Gerald Ferrer
Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering
Improving Rotator Cuff Tear Treatment Decisions
Bioengineering student Gerald Ferrer receives runner-up and People's Choice Award prizes from Vice Provost Nathan Urban.
Runner Up—$500 travel grant
Jacqueline Lombard
History of Art & Architecture, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Constructing Racial Identity in Medieval European Art
History of Art & Architecture student Jacqueline Lombard accepts runner-up prize from Vice Provost Nathan Urban.
2019 School and Online Competition Finalists
Michael Chiang
Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine
What Your Brain Thinks about Pain
Judicael-Briand Djoko-Takougue
Computer Engineering, School of Computing & Information
Practical and Secure Access Control on Untrusted File Sharing Platforms Using Client-side Trusted Hardware
Olivia Lanes
Physics & Astronomy, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Quantum Measurement with Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers
Ravi K. Patel
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
Combatting Drug Resistance In Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Caitlin Schroering
Sociology, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
The Global Economy, Resource Conflicts, and Transnational Social Movements: Dimensions of Resistance to Water Privatization
Kristen Stack
Accounting, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
The Unintended Costs of SEC Regulation
Akhila Veerubhotla
Human Engineering Research Laboratories, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Towards Accessible Health and Fitness Tracking: From Walking to Wheelchair Propulsion