2025 3MT Competition at the University of Maryland

Welcome to the livestream of our 2025 3MT Competition at the University of Maryland. The Three-Minute (3MT) Competition challenges students to talk about the significance of their research in just 3 minutes! The Final Round 3MT competition is from 1 - 3 PM on April 16th. Find out more here: https://gradschool.umd.edu/3mt

The 3MT Finalists for the 2025 Competition are:
Karoline Trovato – Psychology
Rajan Jayasankar – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Hongjin Lu – Plant Sciences
Grace Phelps – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Hannah Burchard – Animal and Avian Sciences
Alyssa Petersen – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Tifanee McCaskill – TLPL/Urban Education
Yiming Zhang – Geographical Sciences
Smrithan Ravichandran – Chemical Physics
Yan Li – Physics
Sagnik Bhattacharya – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Benjamin Lanham – Biochemistry
Jiannan Xu – Decision, Operations and Information Technologies
Celia Chen – Information
Emily Woerner – Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health
Kathleen Evans – Entomology
Arseniy Braslavskiy – Economics
Xiechen Zheng – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kiersten Janjigian – Kinesiology/Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Shantanu Vachhani – Mechanical Engineering