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小黄书 Graduate School recognizes Three Minute Thesis winners

小黄书 Graduate School recognizes Three Minute Thesis winners

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2022 Three Minute Thesis
Mississippi State doctoral students Shaylin Williams (left) and Sakie Jaladha Arachchige (center) and master鈥檚 student Namia K. Stevenson (Photo by Grace Cockrell)

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State鈥檚 Graduate School is awarding eight students for superb research presentations during the university鈥檚 10th annual Three Minute Thesis competition.

The recent 3MT event challenged graduate students to present their thesis/dissertation topics in three minutes or less. Student presentations were judged by a panel of academic and non-academic professionals with a wide range of expertise.

The judges chose Sakie Jaladha Arachchige of Sri Lanka, a mathematics and statistics doctoral student in 小黄书鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, as the new 3MT Grand Champion for her presentation 鈥淩isk prediction of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency by an early age among female childhood cancer survivors.鈥 Along with a $750 prize, Arachchige will represent 小黄书 at the Regional 3MT competition at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools in Tampa, Florida in March 2023.

Namia K. Stevenson of Tullahoma, Tennessee, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture master鈥檚 student in 小黄书鈥檚 College of Forest Resources, received the Grand Champion Runner-Up prize of $500 for her presentation 鈥淪aving One Amphibian at a Time: Optimizing the Transferability of ART protocols in Anurans.鈥

The audience voted Shaylin Williams of Natchez, an engineering education doctoral student, for the $300 People鈥檚 Choice Award for her presentation 鈥淐onstructing Knowledge on Student Motivation and Aspirations in Engineering Education Programs.鈥

The other finalists receiving $200 awards for their presentations are:

鈥擟asey Iwamoto of Seattle, Washington, a forestry doctoral student, 鈥淪ustainable Pathways for Shortleaf Pine in Uncertain Climates.鈥

鈥擜manda Mayo of Lawrenceville, Georgia, a geosciences master鈥檚 student, 鈥淓ffectiveness of Omeka Virtual Platforms for Engaging Dunn-Seiler Museum Audiences.鈥

鈥擫uke Tucker of Tupelo, an agricultural and biological engineering doctoral student, 鈥淟ocal Treatment of Chronic Bone Infections.鈥

鈥擬acy Gosselaar of Olathe, Kansas, a forestry master鈥檚 student, 鈥淚mpact of Differentially Expressed Genes in Monoclonal and Polyclonal Plantings of Populus deltoids for Agricultural Nitrogen Mitigation.鈥

鈥擡lizabeth Esser of Grafton, Wisconsin, a forestry master鈥檚 student, 鈥淯sing Plant Secondary Metabolites to Manage Invasive Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica).鈥

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