Abesh Bera is a sixth-year graduate student at Iowa State in Microbiology, and he was last year's runner-up in the Three Minute Thesis competition. He will also participate in Thursday's final competition with his presentation, "Biased interaction of different Tubulin Isotypes with Tumor Overexpressed Genes (TOG) determines cell division rate."
Daria Dilparic is a first-year graduate student in Civil Engineering (environmental). You can learn more about her research by tuning into her presentation, "PFAS: The Forever Chemical in your Water," during Iowa State's Three Minute Thesis final competition on Thursday.
Holly Loper is a fifth-year Ph.D. student majoring in Microbiology, and this is her second consecutive year participating in Iowa State's Three Minute Thesis final competition. Watch Holly's presentation, "Large Predictions and Small Changes in Fertilizer Use," this Thursday, and learn more about her work before the competition.
Clayton Carley is a graduate student at Iowa State majoring in Genetics and Genomics and Plant Breeding, with a specialization in Predictive Plant Phenomics. Learn more about him before his presentation, "Counting the Nodules that Count," at next week's Three Minute Thesis final competition.
Parvin Mohammadiarvejeh is a third-year Ph.D. student at Iowa State in Industrial Engineering. She will showcase her research during next week's final Three Minute Thesis competition with her presentation, "Developing Machine Learning and Optimization Models to Recognize Super-Agers."
Rachel Sorensen is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Iowa State in Toxicology. This is her second consecutive year as a Three Minute Thesis finalist. You can catch her presentation, "Break Me off a Piece of that Plas-tic Bar," during next week's final competition.
Iowa State graduate student Amenda Tate was inspired to create her first short film, “Sapient_2.021,” in 2020.
Fourteen postdoctoral scholars and two principal investigators have been awarded for their contributions to the Iowa State community. Postdocs are eligible for the Postdoctoral Seed Grant, Postdoctoral Scholar Excellence Award for Teaching and Mentoring Students, and the Postdoctoral Scholar Research Excellence Award. Principal investigators are eligible for the Postdoctoral Mentoring Award.
Hamidreza Zobeiri, Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, is the winner of the 2022 Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research. Each spring semester, the Graduate College gives this honor to a graduate student with superior publishable research.
