Three minutes, one slide: Doctoral students to present thesis projects
Yale Ph.D. students will vie to win a $1,000 prize at the third annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition on Friday, April 5. The event will take place 5-7 p.m. in Sudler Hall, part of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The Yale community is invited.
The 12 doctoral students, who hail from 12 different fields, must describe their thesis project in three minutes, using only one slide. The goal of the competition is to help students hone their communication skills while sharing their research with Yale students, postdocs, faculty, and staff.
First prize is $1,000; second prize is an Apple watch; and the third is a $200 gift card. People’s Choice Awards of $350 will be presented to one student in the humanities and social sciences, and one in the STEM fields.
This year’s competitors and their thesis projects are:
- Matthew Calvin, economics: “What happened when United Left Cleveland: Effects from Airline Dehubbing”
- Ann Chen, biomedical engineering: “Overcoming Barriers: Novel Nanoparticles For Brain Cancer Treatment”
- Susanna Curtis, investigative medicine: “Can Cannabinoids Treat Pain or Reduce Inflammation in People with Sickle Cell Disease?”
- Ross Federman, immunobiology: “Building Functional Proteins With Minimal Chemistry, Or Why I Love Leucine”
- Jeremy Gaison, physics: “Precision Neutrino Measurements: The Fingerprint of a Nuclear Reactor”
- Michael William Grome, cell biology: “Biomimetic Membrane Remodeling With Self-Assembling DNA Nano-machines”
- Hazel Hollingdale, sociology (Fox Fellow): “Testing the Lehman Sisters’ Hypothesis”
- Sharif I. Kronemer, interdepartmental neuroscience program: “Detecting Consciousness Through The Eye”
- Charlotte Kwakye-Nuako, Psychology (Fox Fellow): “The experiences of victims of child sexual abuse and their caregivers as they pursue justice in Ghana—a search for an alternative”
- Anne Norman-Schiff, Religious Studies: “Writing Beyond Reading in Ancient Judaism”
- Mehraveh Salehi, Electrical Engineering: “Individualized and Task-specific Functional Brain Mapping”
- Luna Zagorac, Physics: “How Small Black Holes Teach Us About the Big Bang”
The Three-Minute Thesis Competition is a collaboration of the offices of the McDougal Graduate Student Center. It is supported by Spark Investment Management and the Graduate School Alumni Association through the contribution of board member Kemal Ciliz ’94 M.A., economics).
