The College of Graduate Studies is hosting its signature 7th annual Three Minute Thesis Final Competition on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. in Memorial Field House Room 2100. The UToledo community is invited to attend.
The Three Minute Thesis 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 are eligible to compete.
Emma Elizabeth Sabu Kattuman, a doctoral student in the Biomedical Science Program, competed at the 2024 MAGS competition, where she won the People’s Choice and Runner-up awards. She is competing at the national competition in St. Louis in December.
From Oct. 7 through Nov. 1, the College of Graduate Studies hosted a series of interactive prep workshops. During these sessions, competition coordinators guided competitors on writing a script, designing their optional presentation slide, honing their public speaking and presentation skills, and then practicing their final products.
The 10 finalists will compete in UToledo’s 7th annual final competition. All contestants participated in a qualifying round during the week of Nov. 4 on the Main and Health Science campuses. On Thursday, Nov. 21, finalists will compete for first-place, runner-up and honorable-mention titles. Additionally, the audience will vote for the people’s choice winner. All four will be recognized by the Graduate Council in spring 2025 semester and the first-place winner will go on to compete during the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools 81st annual meeting scheduled Wednesday, April 2, through Friday, April 4, in Indianapolis.
The 2023 competition first-place and people’s choice winner, Emma Elizabeth Sabu Kattuman, a doctoral student in the Biomedical Science Program, competed at the 2024 MAGS competition, where she won the People’s Choice and Runner-up awards. Kattuman will now advance to the national competition in December and represent MAGS and The University of Toledo at the Council of Graduate Schools’ 2024 Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
