Amazing presentations by the 22 graduate students in the UBC 3MT semi-finals yesterday! But a while all were brilliant a few won extra distinction by being selected as People’s Choice or as one of the four presenters chosen by the judges to move on to the final round.
Results:
Semi-Final 1:
1st Place: Jenny McCune, Ph.D. in Botany: Exploring long-term changes in communities of plants
Supervisors: Drs. Mark Vellend and Gary Bradfield
Runner-up: Mina Park, Ph.D. in School of Population and Public Health: Superheroes, Epigenetics, and Your Environment
Supervisor: Dr. Clyde Hertzman
Honourable Mention: Megan Callahan, M.A. in Resource Management & Environmental Studies: Assessing the Challenge of Conservation in Zoos
Supervisor: Dr. Terre Satterfield
Honourable Mention: Mandy Pui, M.Sc. in Experimental Medicine: Ignorance Can Be Cancer – Communicating Workplace Risk
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Carlsten
People’s Choice: Anastasia Shesterinina, Ph.D. in Political Science: Why violent conflicts recur
Supervisor: Dr. Brian L. Job
Semi-Final 2:
1st place: Dru Yates, M.Sc. in Soil Science: Assessing Soil Quality in Grassland Set-Asides
Supervisor: Dr. Maja Kržić
Runner-up: Serbulent Turan, Ph.D. in Political Science: Revolt, Revolution and Imagination
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce Baum
Honourable Mention: Magdalene Payne, M.Sc. in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences: Determination of lysine requirements in healthy pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr. Rajavel Elango
People’s Choice & Honourable Mention: Sun-Nee Tan, Ph.D. in Neuroscience: Musical Walking Program for Parkinson’s Patients
Supervisor: Dr. Martin McKeown
Join us for the final round as the top eight finishers present at the UBC 3MT Final
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Graduate Student Centre Ballroom, 6371 Crescent Road, UBC Point Grey Campus
Seating is limited on a first come-first-served basis – all are welcome and admission is free!
Competing in the semi-final rounds after rising to the top of their respective departmental and Faculty heats were:
Semi-final 1: 1:00 -2:30 PM
- Douglas Bolton, Ph.D. in Forestry, Response of boreal forest structure to disturbance across gradients of productivity
- Matt Wright, M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Addressing the Graduate Attribute Gap Between Academia and Industry Expectations in Undergraduate Curriculum
- Mandy Pui, M.Sc. in Experimental Medicine, Ignorance Can Be Cancer – Communicating Workplace Risk
- Raminder Samra, M.Sc. in Astronomy, Searching for Intermediate Mass Black Holes
- Ashkan Babaie, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Microneedles for Painless Drug Injection
- Meghan Laidlaw, M.Sc. in Forest Sciences, Characterizing Soil Structural Development in Three Reclamation treatments in the Alberta Oil Sands
- Mina Park, Ph.D., School of Population and Public Health, Superheroes, Epigenetics, and Your Environment
- Megan Callahan, M.A. in Resource Management & Environmental Studies, Assessing the Challenge of Conservation in Zoos
- Anastasia Shesterinina, Ph.D. in Political Science, Why violent conflicts recur
- Chelsea Nilausen, M.Sc. in Forest Resource Management , Biotechnology to save our forests?
- Jenny McCune, Ph.D. in Botany, Exploring long-term changes in communities of plants
Semi-final 2: 3:00 – 4:30 PM
- Sun-Nee Tan, Ph.D. Neuroscience, Musical Walking Program for Parkinson’s Patients
- Abdulla Moussa, M.Sc. in School of Population and Public Health, The Effect of Depression on Quality of Life of Homeless People
- Peng Zhang, M.Sc. Experimental Medicine, Make Mcdonald’s happy meal even happier
- Maryam Golozar, M.Sc., Materials Engineering, Industrial Corrosion
- Mai Hassan, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cognitive Radio
- Serbulent Turan, Ph.D. in Political Science, Revolt, Revolution and Imagination
- Amadeus Pribowo, Ph.D. in Forestry (Wood Science), Make the Switch: Enzyme Recycle to Improve the Economics of Waste Biomass Refineries
- Alex Ardila Garcia, Ph.D. in Botany, Parasitic fungus infects marine roundworm *
- Magdalene Payne, M.Sc. in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences, Determination of lysine requirements in healthy pregnancy
- Dru Yates, M.Sc. in Soil Science, Assessing Soil Quality in Grassland Set-Asides
- Parmida Beigi, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ultrasound Guidance for Epidural Anesthesia: Reducing the Risks of Epidurals
* Note that Kaeli Johnson, Ph.D. in Botany, The (plant) doctor is in: Finding genes involved in resistance was scheduled to appear but circumstances prevented her participation. We congratulate her on her achievement and thank Alex Ardila Garcia for graciously agreeing to represent the Botany qualifying heat on very short notice.
