Congratulations to the 2020 Three Minute Thesis Competition Winners from the College of Science

Monday, Mar 27, 2023

Florida Atlantic University has announced the winners of the fourth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. The competition challenges doctoral and master’s students to explain their complex research projects in three minutes or less to an audience that has no background in their area of study.

Morgan Slevin, a doctoral candidate in Integrative Biology, was the 3MT Championship Winner, earning first place and the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT Endowed Award. 

Michelle Edwards, an M.S. in Marine Science and Oceanography student, was the 3MT Championship Runner-Up.

This year’s virtual competition included over 60 competitors. Congratulations to all of the competitors from the College of Science, and view their videos below.  Click here  to see all of the winners and for details about the competition.

First Place

Morgan Slevin,   Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
“Smarts and Symbiosis: How a Bird's Gut Microbiome Influences its Cognitive Performance”
Faculty advisor: Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.

      

Runner-up

Michelle Edwards, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
“Exposure to Multiple Algal Toxins Among Juvenile Bull Sharks, Carcharhinus leucas, in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon”
Faculty advisor: Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.

 

 

Toluleke Famuyiwa
"You Only Treat Cancer Once (YOTCO)" 

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral Candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Skylar Hoolar
"Investigating the impact of dams on water interactions"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Claire Rice
"Forgetting to Remember: Targeting SK Channels to Rescue Memory and Attention"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Experimental Psychology 
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Danielle Ingle 
"What happens when vertebrae don't bear weight?"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology 
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Rachel Wong 
"A Systematic Comparison Of Classifying Human Actions From Pose Estimation"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Psychology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Nicholas Nifakos 
"Analysis of SLKED-mediated wound response to insect herbivory in Solanum lycopersicum"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Biological Sciences 
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Madeleine Hagood
"Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Shark Skin"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Emily Stark
"Computational Mimicry of Biological Olfaction"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Experimental Psychology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
 

Panagiota Galanakou 
"Monitoring prompt gamma emission for reducing range uncertainties of carbon ion radiation for cancer treatments"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Physics 
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Stephanie Insalaco
"The Influence of the Kennedy Space Center on Land Use/Land Cover and Population Dynamics in Brevard County, Florida"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Ryan Amato
"Hiding in Floodplain Sight "

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
 

Majedul Islam 
"Correlation between liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and fibrillation of Tau in Alzheimer's disease."

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Chemistry
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Madeleine Bitting
"Reconstructing the history of human activity and climate from a Costa Rican diatom record"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Jorge Gonzalaz
"Accurate high order computation of invariant manifolds for long periodic orbits of maps and equilibrium states of partial differential equations. "

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Mathematics
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
 

Ivana Serra
"Toasty Turtles: Too Hot to Think?"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Environmental Sciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Glen Oglesby
"How do the Socio-Economic demographics and Cultural Cognitions of South Floridians influence their resilience towards flood risks and to a greater extent, does this resilience vary spatially?"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Geosciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Braden Ruddy
"Keep your friends close and enemies further: Collective movement in elasmobranch fishes "

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
 

Brandice Thompson
"Exploring Motivation to Exercise among Breast Cancer Survivors"

FAU 3MT® Competitor
Doctoral candidate, Exercise Science, and Health Promotion
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science 

Aubrey Clark
"Variation in Elasmobranch Olfactory Rosette Morphology"

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Integrative Biology
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Afrouz Ataei
"A Novel Microfluidic Sperm-Sorting Device based on Rheotaxis Effect "

FAU 3MT® Competitor 
Doctoral candidate, Physics
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

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