Competitors

Below are the 8 courageous graduate students who took on the challenge of presenting their research in under three minutes at the Ninth Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition. Click on each to learn more about their research.

2025 Competitors

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Teri Cesar, Ph.D. student in Nursing Science in the School of Nursing and Health Studies

Dissertation: Obesity in African AmericanFamilies: A Comprehensive Analysis using a Family Health Framework

Advisor: Arsham Alamian
Seungju Choi, Ph.D. student in Business in the Miami Herbert Business School

Dissertation: Complement or Cover-Up? The Role of Carbon Credits in Corporate Climate Strategies

Advisors: Khrystyna Bochkay and Mark Maffett
Gabriel Das Chagas Alves Pereira Souza, Ph.D. student in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences

Dissertation: TransAfroAmericas: Confronting and Debunking Myths of Whiteness in Brazil, Colombia, and the United States

Advisor: Steven Butterman
Nkosi Muse, Ph.D. student in Environmental Science and Policy in the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Dissertation: Examining Heat Exposure and Adaptation across a Diverse, Subtropical Region

Advisor: Katharine Mach
Anya Sondhi, Ph.D. student in Cancer Biology in the Miller School of Medicine

Dissertation: Overcoming Obstacles in CAR-T Cell Therapy to Treat Blood Cancers

Advisor: Justin Taylor
Mariana Viso, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering

Dissertation: Replicating Pancreatic Cancer Chemoresistance

Advisor: Ashutosh Agarwal
Geyi Wang, Ph.D. student in Communication in the School of Communication

Dissertation: How Loneliness and Misinformation Become Dual Epidemics in the Digital Age

Advisor: Nicholas Carcioppolo
Taylor Wright, M.M. student in Music Therapy in the Frost School of Music

Thesis: Infant-Directed Singing and Same-Sex Fathers: Two Instrumental Case Studies

Advisor: Shannon de l'Etoile

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