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2021 Three Minute Thesis Competition Awardees

The Graduate School is proud to announce the 2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition awardees at the college and university levels at The Ohio State University. 

Logo for Three Minute Thesis with link to OSU 3MT page

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 3MT is an academic competition for PhD students and master’s students pursuing a master’s thesis, to describe their research within three minutes, to a general audience. A competition was recently held to select a finalist to represent OSU at the  Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) competition at which a regional representative will be selected.  

We would like to first thank our 2021 3MT panel of reviewers:  

Grace Wang – Executive Vice President, Research, Innovation and Knowledge Enterprise

Morley Stone - Sr Vice President for Research

Ryan King - Divisional Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

 

 

Congratulations to this year’s 2021 3MT University level awardees are: 

1st Place (Ohio State University Representative for the regional competition)  

Richard WanAdvisor Colleen Cebulla - College of Optometry 

2nd Place 

Christina Gore - Advisor Elena Irwin - Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences 

 3rd Place 

Thadcha Panchalingam - Advisor Brian Roe - Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences 

4th Place 

Basar Ozbilen - Advisor Gulsah Akar - City and Regional Planning, the Knowlton School, College of Engineering  

5th Place 

Xin Lin - Advisor Alison Bennett - Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, College of Arts and Sciences