{"id":13540,"date":"2023-03-30T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:43","slug":"peoples-choice-winner-of-3mt-contest-panashe-kupakuwana-student-in-msc-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/peoples-choice-winner-of-3mt-contest-panashe-kupakuwana-student-in-msc-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Choice Winner of 3MT contest: Panashe Kupakuwana, student in MSc Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        People\u2019s Choice Winner of 3MT contest: Panashe Kupakuwana, student in MSc Biology\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to Panashe Kupakuwana, <a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/cu-programs\/biology-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biology MSc<\/a> student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ken-storey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Storey Lab<\/a> who is People\u2019s Choice Winner at the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/3mt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3MT contest<\/a> this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 17, 2023, Carleton\u2019s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted its first in-person Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition since 2019. The competition saw two semi-final rounds before the top 10 finalists took to the stage. Contest prizes consist of one first-place prize of $750, one second-place prize of $400, one third-place prize of $250, and one \u201cpeople\u2019s choice\u201d prize of $150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panashe\u2019s presentation is titled,&nbsp;<em>A Guide on How to Live Without Oxygen<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=74QyaUkzN20&amp;t=28s&amp;ab_channel=CUGradStudies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the video here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about the award and read the full story, please <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2023\/the-2023-winners-of-carleton-universitys-three-minute-thesis-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Panashe Kupakuwana, Biology MSc student in the Storey Lab who is People\u2019s Choice Winner at the 3MT contest this year! On March 17, 2023, Carleton\u2019s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted its first in-person Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition since 2019. The competition saw two semi-final rounds before the top 10 finalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13546,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}