It was a full house at the Grad Student Centre Ballroom yesterday afternoon. The crowd that gathered to hear the 3-minute research presentations of some of UBC’s finest graduate student researchers were treated to 31 outstanding orations.Here are the results. Ten of the top eleven are moving on to the Thursday, March 12 final – 4:30-6:00 p.m. at the Grad Student Ballroom. Join us to cheer on your favourite and be inspired by some truly interesting and intelligent young researchers.
Semi-Final 1:
First place: Samantha Grist, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mimicking the body for drug testing (Drs. Karen Cheung & Lukas Chrostowski)
Second place: Thea Franke, PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, Can The Rest Of Our Lives Be… The Best Of Our Lives? (Dr. Joanie Sims-Gould)
Third place: Zoe Wai-Man Lam, PhD in Linguistics, Perception of Lexical Tones by Heritage Speakers of Cantonese (Professor Douglas Pulleyblank & Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall)
Honourable mention: Ana Elia Ramón Hidalgo, PhD in Forestry, Forest communities, stay connected! Linking Empowerment Social Capital and Gender in Community Ecotourism (Dr. Robert Kozak)
Honourable mention and People’s choice: Kyly Whitfield, PhD in Human Nutrition Fortified fish sauce: a simple solution to thiamin deficiency in rural Cambodia (Dr. Tim Green)
Semi-Final 2:
First place: Miranda Meents, PhD in Botany, Sorting out the Cell's Sorting Centre (Dr. Lacey Samuels)
Second place: Pardis Lakzadeh, MSc in Population and Public Health, Economic assessment of homestead food production in rural Cambodia (Drs. Larry Lynd & Aslam Anis)
Third place: Ashley Saders, PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology, Structure matters (Dr. Peter M. Lansdorp)
Honourable mention :Alexander D. Wright, MD/PhD, Health and Exercise Science, Head hits and brain blood flow - what's happening after a concussion? (Dr. Paul van Donkelaar)
Honourable mention: Jeanette Leeuwner, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Engineering fuel cells for the future (Prof. E. Gyenge & Prof. D. Wilkinson)
People’s choice: Soroush Shakibakho, MSc in Experimental Medicine, STAT3, SHIP, … and the SEDINs (Dr. Alice Mui)
All members of the UBC community and general public are welcome to attend the finals, but seating is limited. Please arrive early as seating during the event will only be permitted during intervals between presentations.
Three Minute Thesis Finals Presentation Order
Thursday, March 12th, 2015
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Ballroom, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road
- Soroush Shakibakho, MSc in Experimental Medicine, STAT3, SHIP, … and the SEDINs (Dr. Alice Mui)
- Pardis Lakzadeh, MSc in Population and Public Health, Economic assessment of homestead food production in rural Cambodia (Drs. Larry Lynd & Aslam Anis)
- Samantha Grist, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mimicking the body for drug testing (Drs. Karen Cheung & Lukas Chrostowski)
- Ana Elia Ramón Hidalgo, PhD in Forestry, Forest communities, stay connected! Linking Empowerment Social Capital and Gender in Community Ecotourism (Dr. Robert Kozak)
- Miranda Meents, PhD in Botany, Sorting out the Cell's Sorting Centre (Dr. Lacey Samuels)
- Alexander D. Wright, MD/PhD, Health and Exercise Science, Head hits and brain blood flow - what's happening after a concussion? (Dr. Paul van Donkelaar)
- Zoe Wai-Man Lam, PhD in Linguistics, Perception of Lexical Tones by Heritage Speakers of Cantonese (Professor Douglas Pulleyblank & Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall)
- Jeanette Leeuwner, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Engineering fuel cells for the future (Prof. E. Gyenge & Prof. D. Wilkinson)
- Kyly Whitfield, PhD in Human Nutrition Fortified fish sauce: a simple solution to thiamin deficiency in rural Cambodia (Dr. Tim Green)
- Thea Franke, PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, Can The Rest Of Our Lives Be… The Best Of Our Lives? (Dr. Joanie Sims-Gould)
This year more than 100 graduate students have taken on the challenge to participate in UBC’s fifth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, honed their public speaking skills, and competed in faculty & department organized heats over 6 weeks of competition.
This opportunity to reach a global audience is bigger than ever. UBC’s first place finisher will advance to a regional completion. Top finishers from that competition will go on to contend for national honours in a virtual completion sponsored by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS)
We’d like to extend a special thank-you to all the department and Faculty level heat organizers and a big shout- out to our semi-finals host, Dr. Rachel Fernandez, Associate Dean, PDFO and Student Professional Development.
Our sterling judging panels are also most deserving of a big thank-you – their task was surely the most difficult of all.
Judging Panel: Semi-final 1
Heather Amos
Media Relations Specialist, UBC Public Affairs
Shiloh Bouvette
Manager, Community Programs and Outreach
Campus + Community Planning
Angus Livingstone
Innovation Catalyst,
Office of the Vice President Research & International
Judging Panel: Semi-final 2
Jennifer Gardy, PhD
Senior Scientist, BC Centre for Disease Control
Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Associate Member, Microbiology, UBC
Vanessa Clarke, BA
Head of Communications, Content and Editor, TREK magazine
UBC Alumni Affairs
Sara Muir-Owen, RPP, MCIP, MLArch
UBC Program Manager, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
