Two Kinesiology doctoral candidates are finalists in CEHD’s new Research Day competition, Three Minute Thesis (3MT), which will be held March 22  from 10-11 a.m. in the McNamara Alumni Center Heritage Gallery.

Jessica Holst-Wolf (biomechanics emphasis) and Tianou Zhang (exercise physiology emphasis) will be competing with six doctoral students from across the college for a first prize of $300. Prizes of $250 will go to the runner-up and people’s choice. The finalists were chosen from a preliminary round competition held last week.

3MT is an annual competition held in over 200 universities worldwide. It’s designed to challenge PhD students to present their research in just three minutes in an engaging form that can be understood by an audience with no background in their discipline. The competition is intended to develop presentation, research and academic communication skills and to help students explain their work effectively to a general audience.

Judges in the CEHD competition are 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.