{"id":62872,"date":"2023-01-05T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/?page_id=62872"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:38:17","slug":"past-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/three-minute-thesis\/past-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":62642,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"Past Three Minute Thesis Winners","subtitle":"","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"no_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":"","hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid","anchor":"","css_class":"pt-0","title":"","description":"Explore past winners of the University of Rochester's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, segmented by year.","background_color":"#FFFFFF","width":"width-medium","columns":"3","cards":[{"card_title":"<h5>2024 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>Fall 2023 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#fall2023","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>Spring 2023 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#spring2023","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>2022 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#2022","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>2021 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#2021","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>2019 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#2019","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>2018 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#2018","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>2017 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#2017","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>2016 winners<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#2016","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"hover_arrow","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"fall2023","css_class":"pb-0","title":"<h2>Fall 2023 winners<\/h2>","content":"<h5 class=\"utopia-font\">Presentation winners<\/h5>\r\n<strong>Winner:<\/strong> Quinny Campbell \u2013 PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering, School of Arts, Sciences &amp; Engineering\r\n\r\n<strong>Runner-up: <\/strong>Gloria Asantewaa \u2013 PhD Candidate in Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Dentistry\r\n\r\n<strong>People\u2019s Choice: <\/strong>Kala Hardy \u2013 PhD Candidate in Pathology, School of Medicine and Dentistry\r\n\r\n<strong>Sub Heat Winners: <\/strong>Azmeer Sharipol \u2013 PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering and Shannon Cooney \u2013 PhD Candidate in Chemistry","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid","anchor":"pt-0","css_class":"","title":"","description":"","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium","columns":"1","cards":[{"card_title":"<h5>First Place and Runner Up<\/h5>","card_text":"3MT First Place Award Winner Quinny Campbell and Runner Up Award Winner Gloria Asantewaa with UGEPA Dean Melissa Sturge-Apple and Provost David Figlio <em>(from left to right: Dean Sturge-Apple, Gloria Asantewaa, Quinny Campbell, Provost Figlio)<\/em>","card_background_color":"#FFFFFF","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":66382,"card_image_size":"image_full","card_image_placement":"image_left","card_image_hover_state":"","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"<h5>People's Choice<\/h5>","card_text":"3MT People's Choice Award Winner Kala Hardy with Provost David Figlio","card_background_color":"#FFFFFF","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":66372,"card_image_size":"image_full","card_image_placement":"image_right","card_image_hover_state":"","card_image_link":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"spring2023","css_class":"","title":"<h2>Spring 2023 winners<\/h2>","content":"<h5 class=\"utopia-font\">Presentation winners<\/h5>\r\n<strong>Winner:<\/strong> Betul Zeyrek \u2013 PhD Candidate in Developmental Psychology\r\n\r\n<strong>Runner-up: <\/strong>Gabrielle Kosoy \u2013 PhD Candidate in Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry\r\n\r\n<strong>People\u2019s Choice: Tie between: <\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Sara Blick-Nitko \u2013 PhD Candidate in Pathology, School of Medicine and Dentistry<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Sanjana Kapisthalam \u2013 PhD Candidate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Katie Zheng \u2013 PhD Candidate in Business Administration, Simon Business School<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Vincent Tanzil \u2013 PhD Candidate in Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Harry Golborn \u2013 PhD Candidate in Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Lynn Sidor \u2013 PhD Candidate in Biology, School of Arts and Sciences<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tre DiPassio \u2013 PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Ziyang Ye \u2013 PhD Candidate in Materials Science, Hajim School of Engineering<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h5 class=\"utopia-font\">Poster session winners<strong>\r\n<\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<strong>Winner:<\/strong> Adrian Molina Vargas \u2013 PhD Candidate in Genetics\r\n\r\n<strong>Runner-up: <\/strong>John Miller \u2013 PhD Candidate in Microbiology and Immunology<strong>\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>People\u2019s Choice: <\/strong>Adrian Molina Vargas \u2013 PhD Candidate in Genetics","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"2022","css_class":"","title":"<h2>2022 winners<\/h2>","content":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Winner: <\/strong>Tara Vrooman from the Immunology program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> Tie between Uday Chockanathan\u00a0from the Neuroscience program, and\u00a0Courtney Kellogg\u00a0from the Cell Biology of Disease program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>People's Choice: <\/strong>Raquel Ajalik from the Biomedical Engineering program<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>\u00a0Alyson March\u00a0- Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Emily Quarato\u00a0- Toxicology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>John Steinmetz\u00a0- Physics and Astronomy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u200bSarah Morgan\u00a0- Toxicology<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a class=\"button ghost-button--blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aE1fDBCq2zc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Check out a video from the 2022 finals<\/a>","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"2021","css_class":"","title":"<h2>2021 winners<\/h2>","content":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Winner and People's Choice:\u00a0<\/strong>Jeffrey Beard, a doctoral student in the Biomedical Engineering program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> Ian Krout, a doctoral student in the Toxicology Program<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Emily Edwards - Chemistry<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Emma House - Cell Biology of Disease<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Jacob Kallenbach - Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Julie Kittel-Moseley - Epidemiology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Savannah Moritzky - Translational Biomedical Science<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Yunpeng Pang - Neuroscience<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Katrina Ponti - History<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a class=\"button ghost-button--blue\" href=\"https:\/\/rochester.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=30282a91-a8d9-453d-b8a5-ad2401490e19\">Check out a video from the 2021 finals<\/a>","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"2019","css_class":"","title":"<h2>2019 winners<\/h2>","content":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Emily Hangen, a doctoral student in the\u00a0Social-Personality Psychology program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> Greg Madejski, a postdoctoral appointee in the Biomedical Engineering department<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>People's Choice: <\/strong>Brandon Berry, a doctoral student in the Pharmacology &amp; Physiology program<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Elizabeth Anson - Human Development<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Rainier Barrett - Chemical Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Nancy Cardona - Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Kolja Keller - Philosophy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Emily Warner - Neuroscience<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>2019 video and photo gallery<\/h4>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=000199fa-4df4-48d6-bfd3-aa2300d79afa\">Check out a video recording<\/a> of the 2019 finals competition, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smdgepa\/albums\/72157708199544094\">explore a photo gallery<\/a> of the big day.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"2018","css_class":"","title":"<h2>2018 winners<\/h2>","content":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Winner and People's Choice:\u00a0<\/strong>Jillian\u00a0Ramos, a doctoral student in the Biology program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> Parker Riley, a doctoral student in the Computer Science program<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Simeon Abiola - Translational Biomedical Science<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Marian Ackun-Farmmer - Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Derek Crowe - Genetics, Development, and Stem Cells<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Robert Maynard - Cellular Biology of Disease<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Lauren VanGelder - Chemistry<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Kathryn-Mary Wakim - Neuroscience<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>2018 video and photo gallery<\/h4>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=cb97f1a4-aeec-41a3-9cae-a8bd00d9cf0c\">Check out a video recording<\/a> of the 2018 finals competition, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smdgepa\/albums\/72157694220763391\/\">explore a photo gallery<\/a> of the big day.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"2017","css_class":"","title":"<h2>2017 winners<\/h2>","content":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Thuy-vy Nguyen, a doctoral student in the Social-Personality Psychology program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> Scott Friedland, a doctoral student in the Genetics, Development and Stem Cells program<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>People's Choice: <\/strong>Sarah Catheline, a doctoral student in the Pathways of Human Disease program<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Stephanie Carpenter - Chemistry<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Claire McCarthy - Toxicology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Taylor Moon - Immunology, Microbiology and Virology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Manisha Taya - Cellular &amp; Molecular Pharmacology &amp; Physiology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Janelle Veazey - Immunology, Microbiology and Virology<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>2017 video and photo gallery<\/h4>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=c5a2f362-3b93-46ae-86d8-81ce8d5cdf27\">Check out a video recording<\/a> of the 2017 finals competition, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smdgepa\/albums\/72157691773178361\/\">explore a photo gallery<\/a> of the big day.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"2016","css_class":"","title":"<h2>2016 winners<\/h2>","content":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Winner and People's Choice: <\/strong>Jennifer Judge, a Toxicology PhD student<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOther finalists included:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Jannai Shields - Philosophy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Evan Ranken - Physics &amp; Astronomy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Sara Nowacki - Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Zachary Murphy - Pathology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Michael-John Beltejar - Genetics<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Martina Anto-Ocrah - Epidemiology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Anas Abidin - Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>2016 video and photo gallery<\/h4>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=338a0dc6-6c9c-4b6d-90e5-a98f010983d4\">Check out a video recording<\/a> of the 2016 finals competition, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smdgepa\/albums\/72177720304997596\">explore a photo gallery<\/a> of the big day.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62872"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72242,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62872\/revisions\/72242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}