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.

2023 3MT Awards

Overall Winners

• Grand Champion – Madison Rose, Computer Science
• 2^nd Place – Drew Theobald, Pharmacology and Toxicology
• 3^rd 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
• 2^nd place – Chloe Scattergood, Anthropology, MA program

People’s Choice Awards

• 1^st place – Ashwinee Mehta, Computer Science, MS program
• 2^nd 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
• 2^nd place – Mandee Schaub, Brody School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences – Physiology, MS program

People’s Choice Awards

• 1^st place – Jalynn Stewart, Anthropology, MA program
• 2^nd 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