3MT: Three Minute Thesis
2022 Awardees
Winner: Abigail Schulte
Major: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Presentation: Optimizing Solid-state Anaerobic Digestion of Prairie Grass and Dairy Manure
Runner Up: Abesh Bera
Major: Microbiology
Presentation: Biased Interaction of Different Tubulin Isotypes with Tumor Overexpressed Genes (TOG) Determines Cell Division Rate
People’s Choice Award: Abigail Koep
Major: Chemical Engineering
Presentation: Developing a Nanoscale Force-Mediated Drug Delivery System for Lung Fibrosis
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2022 Final Round Participants
| Name | Major | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| Abigail Koep | Chemical Engineering | Developing a Nanoscale Force-Mediated Drug Delivery System for Lung Fibrosis |
| Holly Loper | Microbiology | Large Predictions and Small Changes in Fertilizer Use |
| Rachel Sorensen | Toxicology | Break Me Off a Piece of That Plas-tic Bar |
| Daria Dilparic | Civil Engineering (Environmental) | PFAS: The Forever Chemical in Your Water |
| Abesh Bera | Microbiology | Biased Interaction of Different Tubulin Isotypes with Tumor Overexpressed Genes (TOG) Determines Cell Division Rate |
| Abigail Schulte | Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering | Optimizing Solid-state Anaerobic Digestion of Prairie Grass and Dairy Manure |
| Parvin Mohammadiarvejeh | Industrial Engineering | Developing Machine Learning and Optimization Models to Recognize Super-Agers |
| Clayton Carley | Genetics & Genomics (Predictive Plant Phenomics) and Plant Breeding | Counting the Nodules that Count |
2021 Awardees
Winner: Njeshi Charity Nya
Major: Toxicology
Presentation: Drug Development for the Treatment of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
Runner Up: Abesh Bera
Major: Microbiology
Presentation: Remote Spatial Coordination within Cytoskeleton Regulates Timing of Cell Division
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2021 Final Round Participants
| Name | Major | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| Swathy Krishna | Genetics and Genomics | Does a High-Fat High Sugar Diet Make Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Worse? |
| Kate Borchardt | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | ISU Prairie Strip Honey: Status and Future Directions |
| Holly Loper | Microbiology | Novel Field Study to Measure Environmental Nitrogen Losses from Maize |
| Rachel Sorensen | Toxicology | Possible Problems with Puny Plastic Particles |
| Abesh Bera | Microbiology | Remote Spatial Coordination within Cytoskeleton Regulates Timing of Cell Division |
| Carlos Llosa | Statistics | Suicide Risk Assessment |
| Meghan Gage | Neuroscience | Epilepsy: Disease Mitigation via Neuroinflammatory Pathways |
| Charity Njeshi Nya | Toxicology | Drug Development for the Treatment of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
2020 Awardees
Winner: Bailey Adams
Major: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Presentation: Sprayer Chassis Suspension Optimization for Improved Boom Performance
Runner Up: Saloni Purandare
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Presentation: Monitoring cable health to ensure nuclear power plant safety
People’s Choice Award: Ramya Srinivasan
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Presentation: Monitoring cable health to ensure nuclear power plant safety
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2020 Final Round Participants
| Name | Major | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| Saloni Purandare | Apparel, Merchandising and Design | 3D Printed Shark Skin Bio-mimicked Fabric |
| Kate Borchardt | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Prairie Plant Communities Improve Plant-Bee Ecosystem Functions & Bee Health in Crop Fields |
| Ramya Srinivasan | Aerospace Engineering | Cooling of Football Helmets |
| Ana-Marija Nedic | Physics | A Quest for New Magnetic Properties in Materials |
| Sharon Lau | Industrial Engineering | Towards Zero Variability |
| Vaishali Todi | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | Understanding DNA Segregation to Improve Cancer Treatments |
| Bailey Adams | Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering | Sprayer Chassis Suspension Optimization for Improved Boom Performance |
2019 Awardees
Winner: Eleanor Field
Major: Entomology
Presentation: Understanding West Nile virus trends: mosquito biology across seasons
Runner Up: Aishwarya Sriraman
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Presentation: Monitoring cable health to ensure nuclear power plant safety
People’s Choice Award: Carolyn Reinhart
Major: Mathematics
Presentation: Graphs and Matrices: Modeling the World with Math
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2019 Final Round Participants
| Name | Major | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Reinhart | Mathematics | Graphs and Matrices: Modeling the World with Math |
| Aishwarya Sriraman | Materials Science and Engineering | Monitoring cable health to ensure nuclear power plant safety |
| Eleanor Field | Entomology | Understanding West Nile virus trends: mosquito biology across seasons |
| Jinji Pang | Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine | Microbiota-based Intervention for Preharvest Control of Foodborne Pathogen |
| Madhusudan Vijayakumar | Aerospace Engineering | Space Debris Removal Mission Design |
| Mark Bollom | Food Science & Technology | Development of novel bigel to encapsulate probiotics and potentially improve probiotic survival |
| Yuderka Trinidad | Civil Engineering - Geotechnical Engineering | Man vs Nature: Predicting Landslides |
| Alexander Volkov | Chemistry | Covalent Organic Frameworks |
2018 Awardees
Winner: Rainie Nelson
Major: Chemical Engineering
Presentation: Shining A Light: The Power of Perovskites
Runner Up: Andrew Downs
Major: Electrical Engineering
Presentation: Preventing Catastrophe: Advancing the Science of Non-destructive Evaluation
People’s Choice Award: Manreet Singh Bhullar
Major: Food Science and Technology
Presentation: The Fate of Fallen Produce
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2018 Final Round Participants
| Name | Major | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| Carmen Reynolds | Nutritional Science; Biochemistry | How a Vitamin D Metabolite Regulates Calcium Absorption |
| Andrew Downs | Electrical Engineering | Preventing Catastrophe: Advancing the Science of Non-destructive Evaluation |
| Jeffrey Rokkum | Psychology; Human Computer Interaction | On Anxiety and Multitasking |
| Yueyi Jiao | Electrical Engineering | Flexible Strain Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring |
| Kelsey Fisher | Entomology | Monarch Butterfly Movement Ecology |
| Rainie Nelson | Chemical Engineering | Shining A Light: The Power of Perovskites |
| Graham Redweik | Microbiology | A Tale of Two Immunogens: Unique Responses to Live Supplements in Chickens |
| Manreet Singh Bhullar | Food Science and Technology | The Fate of Fallen Produce |
2017 Awardees
Winner: Alex Wrede
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Presentation: Studying Microbubbles to Treat Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
Runner Up: Vivek Lawana
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Presentation: Parkinson’s Disease: An Unheard Tale of Microglia
People’s Choice Award: Anuraag Boddupalli
Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Presentation: Gels and Lasers for Better Healthcare