We are proud to announce that Michelle Brown received First Prize for the CEHD Three Minute Thesis Competition! Michelle is pictured here (center) with her co-advisers in the Institute of Child Development: Professor Dante Cicchetti (right) and Associate Professor Canan Karatekin (left).
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition was featured at this year’s annual CEHD Research Day. Developed at the University of Queensland in Australia, the purpose of the 3MT is to cultivate students’ presentation and research communication skills, and their capacity to effectively explain their research, in brief, to a lay audience. Participating PhD students had three minutes to concisely and effectively explain their research project in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. Presentations were evaluated by a panel of judges on criteria related to comprehension, engagement, and communication style.
Judges for the event were: Dr. Keith Mayes, CLA Professor; R.T. Rybak, former Minneapolis mayor and current Executive Director of Generation Next; and Margie Soran, Executive Director of the Soran Foundation
Congratulations, Michelle!
