Past 3MT Competitions
Three Minute Thesis (3MT庐) is an international competition to help graduate students develop and showcase their research communication skills. The annual university-wide competition hosted by Cornell 黑料社区 School challenges research-degree students to present their dissertation as a compelling story in just three minutes, with one slide, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
2025 Finalists
- First Place: Sydney Womack, biomedical and biological sciences doctoral candidate and veterinary medicine doctoral student 鈥� ““
- Second Place: Ranee Anderson, food science and technology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Third Place: Sara Miller, geological sciences doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Linda Kalunga, food science and technology doctoral student 鈥� ““
- Katherine Koebel, D.V.M. ’23, biomedical and biological sciences doctoral student 鈥� ““
- Maciej Olszewski, physics doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Kasim Saiyyad, applied economics and management doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Viral Shukla, food science and technology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
2024 黑料社区 Finalists
- First Place: Meagan Sundstrom, physics doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Second Place: Sterling Williams-Ceci, information science doctoral student 鈥� ““
- People鈥檚 Choice Award: Sharada Gopal, biomedical and biological sciences doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- C谩tia Dombaxe, biomedical engineering doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Amanda Domingues, science and technology studies doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Viviana Maymi, biomedical and biological sciences doctoral candidate/doctor of veterinary medicine candidate 鈥� ““
- Agust铆n Olivo, animal science doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Jerry Richardson, psychology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
2023 Finalists
- Co-First Place and People鈥檚 Choice Award: Yurong You, computer science doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Co-First Place: Kimberly Hochstedler, statistics doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Second Place: Lidia Komondy, entomology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Fangming Cui, psychology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Sharada Gopal, biomedical and biological sciences doctoral student 鈥� ““
- Yuexing Hao, design and environmental analysis doctoral student 鈥� ““
- Sangwoo Park, biophysics doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Susannah Sharpless, English language and literature doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
2022 Finalists
- First Place: Bruno Shirley, Asian literature, religion, and culture doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Second Place: Vaibhav Sharma, physics doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- People鈥檚 Choice: Juliana Gonz谩lez-Tob贸n, plant pathology and plant-microbe biology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Sebastian Diaz Angel, history doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Fernanda Fontenele, mechanical engineering doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Shagun Gupta, computational biology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Andrew Legan, neurobiology and behavior doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Yanle Lu, civil and environmental engineering doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
2021 Finalists
- First Place: Bhargav Sanketi, biochemistry, molecular, and cell biology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Second Place: Rachel Allison, food science and technology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- People鈥檚 Choice: Kara Fikrig, entomology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, mechanical engineering doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Olivia Graham, ecology and evolutionary biology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Jessica Maya, genetics, genomics, and development doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Seema Singh, city and regional planning doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
- Alan Sulpizio, biochemistry, molecular, and cell biology doctoral candidate 鈥� ““
2019 Finalists
- First Place: Teddy Yesudasan, plant breeding and genetics 鈥� 鈥溾��
- Second Place: Shao-Pei Chou 鈥� genetics, genomics, and development 鈥� 鈥�“
- People鈥檚 Choice: Pamela Meyerhofer, policy analysis and management 鈥� 鈥�
- Katherine Adler, civil and environmental engineering 鈥� 鈥�
- Cassandra Benson, economics 鈥� 鈥溾��
- Michelle Duong, food science and technology 鈥� 鈥溾��
- Ashwariya Lahariya, fiber science and apparel design 鈥� 鈥溾��
- Jeffrey Pea, biomedical and biological sciences 鈥� 鈥溾��
- Maria Sapar, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology 鈥� 鈥溾��
- Robert Swanda, biomedical and biological sciences 鈥� 鈥溾��
2018 Finalists
- First Place and Co-People’s Choice: Jason Guss, biomedical engineering 鈥� ““
- Second Place and Co-People’s Choice: Derek Holyoak, biomedical engineering 鈥� ““
- Hugo Milan, biological and environmental engineering 鈥� ““
- Carol-Rose Little, linguistics 鈥� ““
- Sabrina Solouki, immunology and infectious disease 鈥� ““
- Mengran Wang, biophysics 鈥� ““
- Divya Shiroor, molecular and integrative physiology 鈥� ““
- William Pennock, civil and environmental engineering 鈥� ““
2017 Finalists
- First Place: Kristina Smiley 鈥� ““
- Second Place: Prateek Sehgal 鈥� ““
- People鈥檚 Choice: Xiangkun 鈥淓lvis鈥� Cao 鈥� ““
- Aravind Natarajan 鈥� ““
- David Gludish 鈥� ““
- Fiona Harnischfeger 鈥� ““
- Heather Callaway 鈥� ““
- Kristen Brochu 鈥� ““
- Mardochee Reveil 鈥� ““
- Mary Centrella 鈥� ““
- Olivia White 鈥� ““
- Thedore Harwood 鈥� ““