Past 3MT Competitions
2022 Competition Results
First Place Winner
Somer Matthews
Special Education
Sexuality and Sexual Education for People with Disabilities
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Diane Ryndak
$1,000 Award and travel to the Conference of Southern Graduate School annual meeting.
Second Place Winner
Claire Newman
Kinesiology
Relationships vs Professionalization: A different approach to competitive youth sports
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Hemphill
$500 Award
Thank you to all of you who attended this year’s live event and voted for the People’s Choice Award! This year’s winner of that award is:
People’s Choice Winner
Jasmine McKinney
Counseling and Educational Development
Faculty Mentor: Dr. L. DiAnne Borders
$250 Award
Congratulations to all our 2023 finalists for presenting such high-quality work and thank you for sharing your scholarship with us.
A special thanks to our judges Richard Campbell, Sangeetha Shivaji, and UNCG Trustee Linda Sloan. They had the unenviable task of identifying first and second place from our 11 incredible finalists.
3MT Finalist Presentations
Finalists (in competing order)
- Kayla Baker Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
- Pujita Sapra Mathematics & Statistics
- Aleiza Higgins Kinesiology
- Blenda Chor Rodrigues Human Development and Family Studies
- Justin Fegley Kinesiology
- Chamu Shanmugam Public Health Education
- Jasmine Garland McKinney Counseling and Educational Development
- Somer Matthews Special Education
- Love Odetola Public Health Education
- Pingyi Song Music
- Claire Newman Kinesiology
2021 Competition Results
First Place Winner
Karen Sabo – As You Like It: Building Community and Bridging History
School of Theatre
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Gulley
Second Place Winner
Abigail Horchar – Gold with Heterogeneous Catalysis: Organic Chemistry that Supports the Environment
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Petersen
People’s Choice Winner
Ireti Adegbesan – Our Bodies Belong to Us—Do Young Children’s Belong to Them?: Bodily Autonomy of Toddler and Preschool Aged Children from Mothers’ Perspectives
Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Danielle Crosby
2021 Finalists:
- Abigail Horchar – Chemistry and Biochemistry
- David Kay – History
- Doreen Larvie – Nutrition
- Ignacio Gallardo – Biochemistry
- Ireti Adegbesan – Human Development and Family Studies
- J. R. Moller – Educational Research Methodology
- Joyce Clapp – Geography
- Karen Sabo – School of Theatre
- Robert Glass – Nanoscience
- Shoroq Alkhattabi – Specialized Education Services
2020 Competition Results
First Place Winner
Christopher Rex – Using CRISPR to correct environmentally-induced epigenetic mutations
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ramji Bhandari
Second Place and People’s Choice Winner
Coretta Walker – #BlackProfessionalsMatter: A Move Towards A More Inclusive Higher Education
Teacher Education and Higher Education
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Gonzales
2020 Finalists
- Shoroq Alkhattabi – Specialized Education Service
Understanding Educational Services for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) in Saudi Arabia - Olivia Cook – Human Development and Family Studies
“Do you remember?”: The Socialization of Children’s Memory through Mother-Child Reminiscing - Parth Desai – Nanoscience
Selective enrichment of rare mutants as a new biotechnology to study DNA mismatch repair process in bacteria - Elvis Foli – Kinesiology
B3 (B) Cubed: Birth Control, Biomechanics, and Biochemistry: An interdisciplinary exploration of the effects of progestins on ACL looseness in active women - Stacey Garrepy – Music Education
International Exchange in Music Education: Germany and the USA - Kelsi Hobbs – Economics
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Rental Housing Evictions - Christy Marhatta – Teacher Education and Higher Education
Addressing Socially Just Topics in the Primary Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Social Studies and Literacy Unit - Theophraste Noussi – Nanoscience
E.coli and Gallium Nitride Marriage: Determining and defining the genetic response of E. coli to electronic stimuli of Gallium Nitride semiconductor for bioelectronic applications. - Mackenzie Pierson – Kinesiology
Implementing OPTIMAL Theory in Lower Extremity Tasks to Reduce Risk of Injury - Christopher Rex – Biology
Using CRISPR to correct environmentally-induced epigenetic mutations - Coretta Walker – Teacher Education and Higher Education
#BlackProfessionalsMatter: A Move Towards A More Inclusive Higher Education
2019 Competition Results
First Place Winner
Gabrielle Dailey – Chemistry and Biochemistry (Dr. Ethan Will Taylor)
Hitchhikers Guide to Antioxidant Protein Expression: could Zika infection affect our cell’s selenium Biochemistry?
Awarded $1000 + travel and accommodation to the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools competition in Birmingham, AL to compete on Saturday, March 7, 2020.
Second Place Winner
Alyssa Bedrosian – Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt)
Write, tweet, march: How Argentina’s #NiUnaMenos employed discourse in digital and physical spaces to reach the masses
Awarded $500
People’s Choice Winner
Brown Biggers – Computer Science (Somya Mohanty)
Dynamic Context Interpretation in Twitter
Awarded $250
Top 10 Finalists
Sheeba Dawood -Nanoscience, Kristof Cank -Chemistry and Biochemistry, Alyssa Bedrosian -Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Shoroq Alkhattabi -Specialized Education Services, Elvis Foli -Kinesiology, Yener Ulus -Biology, Masahiro Yamada -Kinesiology, Brown Biggers -Computer Science, Gabrielle Dailey -Chemistry and Biochemistry, Yoojin Chang -Psychology
2018 Competition Results
First Place and People’s Choice
Radmila Petric, Biology
Second Place
Alla Letfullina, Nanoscience
Top 10 Finalists
S Anandavalli, Counseling and Educational Development, Durga Majari Arvapalli, Nanoscience, Elvis Foli, Kinesiology, Linda Friend, Nutrition, Joseph LeBlanc, Counseling and Educational Development, Alla Letfullina, Nanoscience, Kyoungyoun Park, Kinesiology, Radmila Petric, Biology, Snehal Shah, Nanoscience, Yener Ulus, Biology
2017 Competition Results
First Place
Taylor Mabe, Nanoscience
Second Place
Brian Cone, Kinesiology
People’s Choice
Leslie Locklear, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
Top 10 Finalists
Austin Gray, Biology; Durga Manjari Arvapalli, Nanoscience; Valerie Fricault, Biology; Brian Cone, Kinesiology; Leslie Locklear, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations; Chelsea Smith, Biology; Oliver Thomas, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations; Kelly King, Counseling and Educational Development; Taylor Mabe, Nanoscience ; Maggie Kelly, English
2016 Competition Results
1st Place and People’s Choice Award Winner
Jed Diekfuss, Kinesiology
“The Influence of Attentional Focus on Neuroplasticity Following a Seven-Day Balance Training Intervention”
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2nd Place
Paula Swindle, Counseling and Educational Development
“Religious Abuse: A Twisting of the Sacred”
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2015 Competition Results
1st Place
Angela Larsen, Biology, PhD program:
“Habitat Changes: Can We Grow Biofuel Feedstocks without Negatively Impacting Wildlife?”
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2nd Place
Vincent Sica, Chemistry and Biochemistry, PhD program:
“Accelerating Natural Product Drug Discovery: 6 Weeks to 6 Seconds”
People’s Choice Award
Joseph Ross, History, PhD program:
“Judging Nuremberg: Creating the International Military Tribunal’s Human Rights Legacy in America and Beyond”
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2014 Competition Results
1st Place
Matt Marshall
Award – $1,000 + travel and accommodations to compete in the CSGS Conference 3MT Competition in New Orleans
2nd Place
Rachel Bowman
Award – $500
People’s Choice Award
Derek Shore
Award – $250
2013 Competition Results
First Place
Connie Albert, Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
“Protecting Children Online: Examining Predatory Behavior and Victimization of Children within Social Media”
Second Place
Stephanie Gardiner-Walsh, Specialized Education Services
“Mild or Unilateral Hearing Loss: Say What?!?”
People’s Choice Award
Michele Pye, Kinesiology
“Comparison of Neuromuscular Control Strategies Between Collegiate Female Dancers and Athletes”
- 2019 1st Place Gabrielle Dailey: Hitchhikers Guide to Antioxidant Protein Expression: could Zika infection affect our cell’s selenium Biochemistry?
- 2019 2nd Place Alyssa Bedrosian: Write, tweet, march: How Argentina’s #NiUnaMenos employed discourse in digital and physical spaces to reach the masses
- 2019 People’s Choice Brown Biggers: Dynamic Context Interpretation in Twitter
- 2018 1st Place and People’s Choice Radmila Petric: The Effects of Man-made Noise on Wild Mice
- 2018 2nd Place Alla Letfullina: Understanding Ion Transfer within Plastic Crystals
- 2017 1st Place Taylor Mabe: Portable Sensors for Disease Diagnostics
- 2017 2nd Place Brian Cone: Where Fall Prevention Went Wrong
- 2017 People’s Choice Leslie Locklear: The Stories of Lumbee Tribal Youth
- 2016 1st Place and People’s Choice Jed Diekfuss: The Influence of Attentional Focus on Neuroplasticity Following a Seven-Day Balance Training Intervention
- 2016 2nd Place Paula Swindle: Religious Abuse: A Twisting of the Sacred
- 2015 1st Place Angela Larson: Habitat Changes: Can We Grow Biofuel Feedstocks without Negatively Impacting Wildlife?
- 2015 2nd Place Vincent Sica: Accelerating Natural Product Drug Discovery: 6 Weeks to 6 Seconds
- 2015 People’s Choice Joseph Ross Judging Nuremberg: Creating the International Military Tribunal’s Human Rights Legacy in America and Beyond
- 2014 1st Place Matt Marshall: The Genetics of Thermal Plasticity in Plantago Lanceolata
- 2014 2nd Place Rachel Bowman: The Embodied Rhetoric of United States Marine Corps Recruit Training