Emma Elizabeth Sabu Kattuman, a Ph.D. student in physiology and pharmacology in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, was honored as the runner-up and recipient of the people’s choice award at the Three Minute Thesis Competition regional competition held by the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools in St. Louis on April 5.
She has been nominated to represent midwestern universities at the national-level competition scheduled for December of this year.
Emma Elizabeth Sabu Kattuman, a Ph.D. student in physiology and pharmacology, was honored as the runner-up and recipient of the people’s choice award at the Three Minute Thesis Competition regional competition.
Last year, Sabu Kattuman won first place and the people’s choice award at the intra-university 3MT finals.
“This award brings me great joy and pride to be able to represent my institution at the regional and national level,” said Sabu Kattuman. “This platform provides us the great opportunity to describe our research to a general audience within three minutes. It was really amazing to hear about all the different research that was going on in the fields other than my field of interest. A truly enriching experience.”
The 3MT is an exercise that develops academic, presentation and research communication skills and challenges the research student’s capacity to effectively explain their research in only three minutes in a language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience.
Graduate students in good standing in the thesis and dissertation-writing stage of their studies were eligible to compete.
