UBC UNDERGRADUATE 3MT
We are UBC’s Multidisciplinary Undergraduate 3 Minute Thesis Competition!
Applications for the 2021-2022 cycle are now closed! See the For Students page for more information.
Join us for our live event on Saturday, March 5th, 2022! Details TBA.
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UBC’s Multidisciplinary Undergraduate 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Research isn’t finished until you communicate it.
Undergraduate students from any faculty that are involved in research at UBC are encouraged to apply.
Share your hard work and fine-tune your communication skills!
2020 – 2021
Competition Results
Thank you to everyone who came out to our live event on Saturday, February 27th, 2021!
Congratulations and thank you to all our finalists for sharing your incredible research. A video recording of the virtual competition will soon be available. Stay tuned!
Competition Results
Winners
Lauren Gill
When Mussels Get Cold Feet
Biology
Serena Chuang
Tempering the Cytokine Storm Caused by Coronavirus Infection
Biochemistry
Runner-Up
Sahil Kanani
Cell Phone: Building Smartphone-Based Disease Diagnostics
Chemistry
Audience Choice Award
Lauren Gill
When Mussels Get Cold Feet
Biology
2019 – 2020
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!
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.