3MT Awards, Winners, and Presentations
The awards given include:
- Grand Champion (highest score)
The Grand Champion is invited to participate in the regional competition at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ annual meeting in March. - Department Cup
This coveted cup is awarded to the department whose top three presenters have the highest combined score.
Here is a sample of our most recent 3MT winners and their mentors/departments.
2024 3MT Awards
Overall Winners
- Grand Champion – Xanthia Saganis, Psychology
- 2nd Place – Abigahill Simon, Biology
People’s Choice Award
Rachael Johnson, Biology
Department Cup
Department of Biology: Abigahill Simon, Rachael Johnson, and Caroline Johnston
2023 3MT Awards
Overall Winners
- Grand Champion – Madison Rose, Computer Science
- 2nd Place – Drew Theobald, Pharmacology and Toxicology
- 3rd Place – Rachel Bruns, Engineering
People’s Choice Award
Skyler DeWall, Biology
Department Cup
Biology (Skyler DeWall, Michael Reynolds, and Chloe Gabriel)
2022 3MT Awards
Overall Winners
- Grand Champion – Maddison Salois, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PhD program
- 2nd place – Chloe Scattergood, Anthropology, MA program
People’s Choice Awards
- 1st place – Ashwinee Mehta, Computer Science, MS program
- 2nd place – Drew Theobald, Pharmacology and Toxicology, MS program
Department Cup
The Department of Anthropology
2021 3MT Awards
Overall Winners
- Grand Champion – Lesha Rouse, College of Nursing, PhD program
- 2nd place – Mandee Schaub, Brody School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences – Physiology, MS program
People’s Choice Awards
- 1st place – Jalynn Stewart, Anthropology, MA program
- 2nd place – Arunprasad Sundharam, Computer Sciences, MS program
Department Cup
The College of Nursing
2019 3MT Awards
- Grand Champion: Peter Kann – Department of Biology – Mentor: Trip Lamb
- People’s Choice: Mallory de Araujo Miles – Department of Biology – Mentor: Kyle Summers
- Departmental Cup: Biology
2018 3MT Awards
- Grand Champion: Emory Wellman, Department of Biology
- People’s Choice: Robert Driver, Department of Biology
- Departmental Cup: Department of Biology
2017 3MT Awards
- Grand Champion: Shelby Powers, Department of Physiology
- People’s Choice: Steph Orr, Department of Biology
- Departmental Cup: Department of Biology
2016 3MT Awards
- Grand Champion: Sophronia Knott, Department of English
- People’s Choice: Adam Stuckert, Department of Biology
- Departmental Cup Winner: Department of Biology