This year, for UBC’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, more than 100 UBC graduate student researchers put hours of work into practicing and honing their presentations to compete in faculty and department organized heats over 4 weeks of competition. The audience that assembled in the Graduate Student Centre Ballroom for yesterday’s semi-finals were treated to 28 of those outstanding 3-minute research presentations.
The top ten presenters are moving on to the Thursday, March 10th final – 4:30-6:00 PM at the Graduate Student Centre Ballroom. Here are the semi-final winners:
Semi-Final 1:
First place: Amin Nouri, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Curious Case of Benjamin’s Bubble (Prof. David Wilkinson)
Second place and People’s choice: Diana Canals, MSc in Medical Genetics, The role of podocalyxin in cancer metastasis (Dr. Kelly McNagny)
Third place: M’Beth Schoenfeld, MASc in Biomedical Engineering, Cervical Spine Injuries in Vehicle Rollovers (Drs. Peter Cripton & Gunter Siegmund)
Honourable mention: Kelsey Huus, PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, How gut bacteria contribute to malnutrition (Dr. B. Brett Finlay)
Honourable mention: Anne-Mareike Chu, MSc in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Smart Buildings – Closing the Energy Gap in Green Buildings (Dr. John Robinson)
Semi-Final 2:
First place: Babak Adeli, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Towards Solar Hydrogen (Prof. Fariborz Taghipour)
Second place and People’s choice: Craig Jones, PhD in Geography, The War Lawyers (Dr. Derek Gregory)
Third place: Gil Henriques, PhD in Zoology, Effect of finite population sizes on public goods games (Dr. Michael Doebeli)
Honourable mention: Rachel Jordan, MSc in Audiology, Auditory Evoked Potentials to Gaps in Infants (Dr. Susan Small)
Honourable mention: Jingqian Chen, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Paper Inside Out: Secret Ingredient for Better Paper Strength (Drs. Heather L. Trajano and Rodger P. Beatson)
Join us to cheer on your favourite and be inspired by some truly interesting and intelligent young researchers. All members of the UBC community and general public are welcome to attend the finals.
Please arrive early as seating during the event will only be permitted during intervals between presentations.
Three Minute Thesis Finals Presentation Order
Thursday, March 10, 2016
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Ballroom, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road
- M’Beth Schoenfeld, MASc in Biomedical Engineering, Cervical Spine Injury in Vehicle Rollovers (Drs. Peter Cripton and Gunter Siegmund)
- Jingqian Chen, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Paper Inside Out: Secret Ingredient for Better Paper Strength (Drs. Heather L. Trajano and Rodger P. Beatson)
- Babak Adeli, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Toward Solar Hydrogen (Prof. Fariborz Taghipour)
- Amin Nouri, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Curious Case of Benjamin’s Bubble (Prof. David Wilkinson)
- Gil Henriques, PhD in Zoology, Effect of finite population sizes on public goods games (Dr. Michael Doebeli)
- Kelsey Huus, PhD in Microbiology & Immunology, How gut bacteria contribute to malnutrition (Dr. B. Brett Finlay)
- Diana Canals, MSc in Medical Genetics, The role of podocalyxin in cancer metastasis (Dr. Kelly McNagny)
- Anne-Mareike Chu, MSc in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Smart Buildings – Learning from the Energy Gap in Green Buildings (Dr. John Robinson)
- Craig Jones, PhD in Geography, The War Lawyers (Dr. Derek Gregory)
- Rachel Jordan, MSc in Audiology, Auditory Evoked Potentials to Gaps in Infants (Dr. Susan Small)
UBC’s first place finisher will advance to a regional competition at UBC-Okanagan on April 29th. Top finishers from that competition will go on to contend for national honours in a virtual completion sponsored by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS)
We’d like to extend a special thank you to all the department and Faculty level heat organizers as well as our semi-finals host, Dr. Rachel Fernandez, Associate Dean, Postdoctoral Fellows Office and Student Professional Development, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
We are incredibly grateful to our judges who volunteered for the most challenging task of the competition. Thank you!
Judging Panel: Semi-final 1
Jamie Hall
Manager, Communications
Office of the Vice President Research & International
Sara Muir Owen, MCIP, RPP, MLArch
Program Manager
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Farzat Fotovat, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Applied Science
VP Operations, Postdoctoral Fellows Association
Judging Panel: Semi-final 2
Julie Ovenell
Director, Communications
Office of the Vice President Research & International
Office of the Vice President, Academic
Theresa Rogers, PhD
Associate Dean, Faculty and Program Development
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Professor, Language and Literacy Education
Miranda Kirby, PhD
CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
President, Postdoctoral Fellows Association
This event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors.
