FW: Finalists event for Three Minute Thesis set for April 29 at Montana State

BOZEMAN — Montana State University graduate students will distill their highly technical thesis projects into engaging, 180-second presentations at the annual Three Minute Thesis competition. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place Friday, April 29, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Procrastinator Theater in MSU’s Strand Union Building.  

Contestants are allowed a single presentation slide and will attempt to concisely explain how their research affects members of the audience. The competition’s six finalists come from disciplines across the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, College of Letters and Science, and College of Education, Health and Human Development and are listed below:  

Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering 

• Ghazal Vahidi — “The Amazing Osteocyte: The Key to Curing Bone Fragility in Aging?” 
• Cailin Casey — “What’s all the Buzz with Insect Flight.” 

College of Letters and Science 

• Behnaz Hosseini — “Slow as a Sloth or Rapid as a Runner? Determining How Quickly Magma Rises During Volcanic Eruptions.” 
• Karlin Blackwell — “Heligmosomoides Polygyrus Bakeri: Parasitic Worms for Disease Prevention.” 

College of Education, Health and Human Development 

• Edwin Allan — “Send All the Lentils Away?” 
• Sumedha Garg — “Participatory Action Research to Co-create a Design Thinking Product Development Toolkit with Berry Growers.” 

Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition developed by the University of Queensland in Australia. For more information, visit threeminutethesis.org. 

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