2024 3MT™ WINNERS
Congratulations to 2024's winners of the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT™) competition. Special thanks to our panel of judges and to everyone who cast their vote for the People’s Choice winners.
For more information about the Three Minute Thesis Competition, visit The Graduate School's 3MT website.
View the 2024 3MT Winners below, and click here to view the presentations.
Master's Winners
1st Place
Piyumi Bandaranayake (Economics)
Thesis Title: Bus Transit and Impact on Neighborhood Crime, Evidence from Clayton County
2nd Place
Ezgi Sen (Biology)
Thesis Title: From Conception to Connection: Tracing the Roots of Adult Social Behavior
3rd Place
Bukunmi Bifarin (Anthropology)
Thesis Title: Bridging Spaces: An Ethnographic Study of Transnational African Art in Atlanta
People's Choice
Ayodeji Babatunde (MBA Business Analytics)
Thesis Title: Unlocking Nashville's Airbnb Landscape
Doctoral Winners
1st Place
Caroline Simpkins (Kinesiology)
Thesis Title: Neurobiomechanical Mechanisms of Ballet Preventing Falls in Older Adults
2nd Place
Ozlem Tuncel Gurlek (Political Science)
Thesis Title: Pre-electoral Coalitions in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes
3rd Place
Morgan Gomez (Neuroscience)
Thesis Title: Long-term Immune Consequences of Early Life Pain
People’s Choice
Chuntiel James (Nursing)
Thesis Title: Disease Risk Perceptions, Culture, Body Image, and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Dietary Behaviors in Young African American Women