UNBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Graduate Student Competition
•An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present; they have three minutes to tell us what they are doing, how they are
doing it, and how it relates to the real world.
•To present a thesis in just three minutes, they need to be concise and understand the importance of good storytelling.
•The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
Join the audience!
The 2025 3MT® Final is open to the public! Come and cheer on UNBC's graduate students and learn about their exciting research in just 3 minutes.
There are three categories:
- 1st Place
- 2nd Place
- People's Choice Award
Come out and cheer for your favourite three-minute presentation. But wait it doesn’t end there, YOU, the audience, have a chance to vote for the “People’s Choice Award”!!! This lucky competitor will have a chance to win not only $275.00, but possibly 1st or 2nd prize as well, and the 1st prize competitor will represent UNBC at the Western Regional Finals in Victoria.
Join us in the Canfor Theatre and prepare to be educated, entertained and enthralled by UNBC's Graduate Student 3MT® Research Competitors.
Contact Information
The below are the final list of competitors, judges, MC's and Elder:
| Student | Degree | Judges | MC’s | Elder Welcome |
| Nusrat Jahan Panna | MA Gender Studies | Tyree Corfe | Dr. Katerina Standish | Elder Clifford Quaw |
| Alireza Noory | PhD. NRES | Dr. Gabrielle Daoust | Jill Mitchell Nielsen | |
| Hannah Tench | MSc. NRES Biology | Dr. Zahra Rahmaty | ||
| Genevieve van der Voort | PhD. NRES | Jennifer Pighin | ||
| Davi Florencio de Lima | MNRES | Dr. Siavash Nouroozi | ||
| Leila Doudey | MSc. NRES | Dr. Komla Avoumatsodo | ||
| Mehdi Mahammadpour | MASc. | |||
| Lina Shehata (she/her) | MASc. | |||
| Tina Fathalipour | MSc. NRES | |||
| Leah Swanson | MSc. NRES | |||
| Lucas Lenartowicz | MSc. BioChem |