UBC’s Multidisciplinary Undergraduate 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Research isn’t finished until you communicate it. Undergraduate students from any faculty doing a honours thesis or directed studies are encouraged to apply and fine-tune their communication skills!
2019/20
Competition Results
Thank you to everyone who came out to our live event on Saturday, February 15, 2020! We’d like to congratulate our two winners and all our finalists for absolutely blowing us away with their 3 Minute Thesis presentations! See all finalists
Competition Results
Winners
Laurel Neufeld
Following your gut: how the intestinal environment shapes bacterial infections
Microbiology
Katie Rink
Building Blocks for the OSI’s Space and Environmental Stewardship Index
Physics
Runner-Up
Rithikha Rajamohan
Quantifying the Protective Value of Blue-Green Infrastructure during Coastal Disaster Events
Geographical Sciences
Audience Choice Award
Ana Ivkov
Bilingual Infants’ Word Class Distinctions
Behavioural Neuroscience
Participate
Join UBC’s undergraduate 3 minutes thesis competition.
Students
Are you currently taking a directed studies course or writing your honours thesis as apart of your non-professional undergraduate degree? Then you’re eligible to participate.
Professors
We’re building a panel of professors from every faculty to provide feedback to the students participating in the competition. If you are a professor and interested in adjudicating, click the button below!
What is 3MT?
This event will provide undergraduate students with the opportunity to submit a recorded 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) of their directed studies or honours thesis. Students have a static powerpoint slide and must give a 3 minute oration of their research background and findings in the context of a general audience.
For the initial submissions, all applicants will receive feedback from a panel of UBC faculty adjudicators outside of their field of study on their submitted 3MT, which will be useful for future oral presentations and a unique challenge to get students thinking about what relevance their research has as they begin to conduct their studies.
A group of the most outstanding applicants will then be selected by the adjudication committee to compete for cash prizes in the live competition.
3MT & UBC.
We are thrilled to say that this event has been endorsed by the UBC PURE Award as part of the UBC Strategic Plan to expand awareness, interest, and accessibility of research to undergraduate students. For more details on the PURE award, click here.