{"id":135436,"date":"2023-02-23T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=135436"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:38:59","slug":"elevator-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/23\/elevator-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevator speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright State University\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/graduate-school\">graduate<\/a>\u00a0students working on their thesis or dissertation face a common challenge \u2014 explaining complex and nuanced subject matter in simple and concise terms that novices can quickly understand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was the premise behind the Wright State College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies\u2019 inaugural\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/graduate-school\/three-minute-thesis-dissertation-competition\">Three Minute Thesis\/Dissertation competition, or 3MT<\/a>, which took place Feb. 21 in the Student Union Endeavour Room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe have 11 final contenders, and each one of them presented their original research topic,\u201d said Shu Schiller, Ph.D., interim dean of the college. \u201cIt can be very hard to do. That\u2019s why this is such a good exercise for these students to engage in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The average master\u2019s thesis or doctoral dissertation is tens of thousands of words in length and would take several hours to read aloud. Students participating in the 3MT competition were only allotted three minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">William Cvammen, a graduate biomedical sciences student, received the First-place award for his presentation on skin cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said it was a good learning experience but extremely challenging. \u201cIt was very difficult to condense that information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The contest was judged by a seven-person panel, which also selected two second-place and three third-place winners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those in attendance had the opportunity to vote for a \u201cPeople\u2019s Choice Award,\u201d which went to Vamshi Beemanapalli, a graduate pharmacology and toxicology student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other student participants included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Cassidy Alspaugh<\/strong>, College of Science and Mathematics<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Mia Williams Burnett<\/strong>, College of Science and Mathematics<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Ryanne Antonette Cimatu<\/strong>, College of Science and Mathematics<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Pranali Manjrekar<\/strong>, Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venkata Sailaja Rachakonda<\/strong>, Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shikshita Singh<\/strong>, Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Marilyn Kindig Stahl<\/strong>, College of Health, Education and Human Services<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Peter Swartz<\/strong>, College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Michelle Trimbur<\/strong>, College of Health, Education, and Human Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information on the 3MT competition is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/graduate-school\/three-minute-thesis-dissertation-competition\">available on the graduate programs\u2019 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies\u2019 hosted the inaugural\u00a0Three Minute Thesis\/Dissertation competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/02\/23\/elevator-speeches\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":135440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2060,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-graduate","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135436"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135460,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135436\/revisions\/135460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}