{"id":5148,"date":"2025-04-03T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/chemistry\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:37:21","slug":"carletons-2025-three-minute-thesis-3mt-competition-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/2025\/carletons-2025-three-minute-thesis-3mt-competition-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Winners!"},"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                        Carleton\u2019s 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Winners!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University held its annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/3mt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Three Minute Thesis Competition<\/a>&nbsp;on March 27, 2025. Two rounds of competition were held earlier in the day before eight finalists competed for the top prizes in the late afternoon. Contest prizes up for grabs by grad students consisted of one first-place prize of $500, one second-place prize of $300, one third-place prize of $200 and honourable mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025 winners from Carleton are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Place:&nbsp;<strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Genevi\u00e8ve Hach\u00e9, Chemistry<\/strong>.&nbsp;<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">\u201cOut of the non-stick pan, into our waters: PFAS and their foothold in the Great Lakes\u2019 aquatic life cycles.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Watch the winning presentation below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-section cu-section--white w-screen ml-offset-center px-4 md:px-6 lg:px-12\"><div class=\"cu-max-w-child-5xl space-y-6 md:space-y-10   cu-prose-first-last\"><figure class=\"cu-figure not-prose  max-w-full\"><div class=\"not-prose overflow-hidden bg-white shadow-lg max-w-full rounded-none\"><div class=\"relative none overflow-hidden w-full pb-[56.25%] border border-cu-black-100\"><iframe title=\"Videos Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFNFnU2rIvc\" class=\"cu-embed-iframe\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Second Place:&nbsp;<strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Raegan Davis, Biology<\/strong>. \u201c<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Dam it, I\u2019m stranded: quantifying fish stranding downstream of hydropeaking facilities<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=66LtP3v1a04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third Place:&nbsp;<strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Tejas Kokatnur, Building Engineering.<\/strong>&nbsp;<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">\u201cWhy pay for cooling when you can stay cool for free? Exploring passive strategies in low-income housing.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thVLdcGV_EU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honourable Mention:&nbsp;<strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Dunja Palic, Management<\/strong>. \u201cMaking sense of qualified immigrants\u2019 career transitions: The role of context, time, and resourcefulness.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3b1WykKBlGk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Winners-edited-1-1024x845.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58831\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2025 Carleton 3MT Winners: Honourable Mention winner Dunja Palic, First Place winner Genevi\u00e8ve Hach\u00e9, Third Place winner Tejas Kokatnur and Second Place winner Raegan Davis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded by the University of Queensland in Australia, 3MT celebrates graduate student research and takes place at universities around the world. Participants have to summarize their research in no more than 180 seconds. The judges for this year\u2019s competition were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Nathalie Laporte<\/strong>, Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Business Officers, Board of Governors, Carleton University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">John Nelson<\/strong>, Director, Innovation Hub, Carleton University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Virginia Taylor<\/strong>, Treasurer, Tanzania Education and Micro-Business Opportunity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Judges-1-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58822\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Finals Judges: Nathalie Laporte, Virginia Taylor and John Nelson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The finalists\u2019 presentations are available on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GradsAtCarleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graduate Studies\u2019 YouTube channel.<\/a>&nbsp;In addition to the above-mentioned prize winners, the finalists included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Isaac Finkelstein<\/strong>&nbsp;(Biology):&nbsp;<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gfnSV2TSdak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can closely related damselfly species tell each other apart?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Jennice Hinds<\/strong>&nbsp;(Linguistics):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FwrnSEicH1I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Beyond words: The unspoken meaning in soun<\/em><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">d<\/em><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">s<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Irbaz Rehman<\/strong>&nbsp;(Chemical and Environmental Toxicology):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mCBmjE1vw-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Nature\u2019s secret treasure trove, endophytes.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Hannah Villeneuve<\/strong>&nbsp;(Building Engineering):&nbsp;<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZcaI9fuq1YQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Make yourself at home, indoor environmental conditions for aging in place.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Finalists-1-1024x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58813\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Finalists for 2025 3MT Competition at Carleton University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Finalists-with-Judges-2-1024x954.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58823\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Finalists with the judges and host Onita Basu, Associate Vice-Provost (Graduate Awards and Professional Development) at Graduate Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-section cu-section--white w-screen ml-offset-center px-6 md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n<div class=\"cu-max-w-child-5xl space-y-6 md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n<figure class=\"cu-figure not-prose max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"not-prose overflow-hidden bg-white shadow-lg max-w-full rounded-none\">Original Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2025\/carletons-2025-three-minute-thesis-3mt-competition-winners\/\">Carleton&#8217;s 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Winners! &#8211; Graduate Students<\/a><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University held its annual&nbsp;Three Minute Thesis Competition&nbsp;on March 27, 2025. Two rounds of competition were held earlier in the day before eight finalists competed for the top prizes in the late afternoon. Contest prizes up for grabs by grad students consisted of one first-place prize of $500, one second-place prize of $300, one third-place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}