You are warmly invited to attend UNB's 2023 Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) challenge hosted by the School of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Association.

UNB will be hosting our local annual Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition during the afternoon of March 24, 2023. It will be an in-person event held in Fredericton at the Wu Centre in the Chancellor's Room from 12:30-3pm.

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an internationally recognized research communication competition. Participants have three minutes to deliver a compelling presentation on their thesis research for a general audience using a single, static slide: https://www.unb.ca/gradstudies/current/resources/student-development/threeminutethesis/index.html

The three judges will be:

Mayor of Fredericton, Kate Rogers: https://www.fredericton.ca/en/city-hall/city-council/kate-rogers

Former Assistant Dean of SGS, and former President of the Heart and Stroke Foundation's NB Board of Directors, Dr. Mary McKenna: https://blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/2016/03/kinesiology-professor-named-president-of-heart-and-stroke-foundation-of-new-brunswick-s-board-of-directors.php

Divison Manager of Investment Group Financial Services, Devansh Bavishi: https://advisor.investorsgroup.com/en/devansh_bavishi

Winners of the UNB 3MT competition will participate in a regional event with all Atlantic universities, with the finalists invited to attend the national competition in the fall.

Please come out and support the participating graduate students! A list of this year's participants follows:

3MT schedule:

12:30-12:50

1. Amy MacArthur (Interdisciplinary Studies)
2. Rina Guxholli (Biological Sciences)
3. Mostafa Javaheri Moghadam (Chemistry)
4. Bradley Shoebottom (History)
5. Carlos Duenas (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
6. Hamidreza Parsimehr (Chemistry)

Break

1:00-1:20

1. Charles Ferris (History)
2. Ousamma Hamza (Interdisciplinary Studies)
3. Kelton Ireland (Mechanical Engineering)
4. Anjana Gayathri Arunachalam (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
5. Phillip Lunga (Interdisciplinary Studies)
6. Amer El-Samman (Chemistry)

Break

1:30-1:40

1. Rosie Leggott (English)
2. Deepty Sarder (Economics)
3. Faezeh Bashiri (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
4. Alex Dandridge (Interdisciplinary Studies)
5. Jennifer Moore (Psychology)
6. Alexander Ani (Earth Sciences)

Judges' deliberations: 1:45-2:30

Prize ceremony 3:00

We hope to see you there!