Holly Loper is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in microbiology. You can watch her Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation, "Novel Field Study to Measure Environmental Nitrogen Losses from Maize," Oct. 28 at 6 p.m.
Carlos Llosa, a graduate student in statistics, will present his Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation, "Assessing Suicide Risk Using Statistics," on Thursday, Oct. 28. Learn more about Carlos's graduate studies below.
Swathy Krishna, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Genetics and Genomics, will compete in the Graduate College's sixth annual Three Minute Thesis competition on Oct. 28. Learn more about Swathy below, and watch her presentation, "Does a High-fat High Sugar Diet Make Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Worse?" on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Meghan Gage is a fifth-year Ph.D. student studying neuroscience. Learn more about Meghan below, and watch her Three Minute Thesis presentation, "Epilepsy: Disease Mitigation via Neuroinflammatory Pathways," on Oct. 28 at 6 p.m.
Kate Borchardt, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is a finalist in this year's final Three Minute Thesis (3MT) for the second year in a row. Learn more about Kate and her 3MT presentation, "ISU Prairie Strip Honey: Status and Future," below.
Abesh Bera is in his fifth year of the microbiology doctoral program at Iowa State. His Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation, which he will deliver in the final round of Iowa State's 3MT competition on Oct. 28, is titled "Remote Spatial Coordination Within Cytoskeleton Regulates Timing of Cell Division." Ahead of the competition, Abesh answered questions about his graduate studies about Iowa State.
Q: What brought you to Iowa State?
Dr. Mark Hartman, an alumnus of Iowa State’s doctoral program in kinesiology, has been awarded with the Graduate College’s Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertation. Each spring, the Graduate College awards the Karas Award to two students with superior dissertations in rotating disciplinary fields.
