SBU 3MT Past Winners

Below is a summary of the prizes winners and their talks from each year of SBU's Three Minute Thesis competition.

Year	Award	First	Last	Graduate Program	3MT Video
2021	1st	Chun-Hao	Pan	Molecular & Cellular Biology	Targeting Keratin 17 in Pancreatic Cancer: A Therapeutic Window Opens
2021	2nd & People's Choice	Sara	Santos	English	Living in the End of the World
2021	3rd (tie)	Shruti	Iyer	Genetics	Solving Genetic Puzzles to Understand Cance r
2021	3rd (tie	Amanda	Russo	Integrative Neuroscience, Psychology	Getting Rid of Traumatic Memorie s
2020	1st	Sonali	Gera	Physics & Astronomy	Building a Quantum Computer, One Particle at a Time
2020	2nd & People's Choice	Xiaoqing	Zhang	Heath & Rehabilitation Sciences	Children Left Behind in Rural China--"I can Be Resilient and Happy"
2020	3rd	Keffy	Kehrli	Genetics	Evolution: Comparing more than Just the Sequences of Our Genes
2019	1st	Olivia	Swanson	Neuroscience	Brain in Motion
2019	2nd & People's Choice	Xiaoyu	Zhao	Molecular & Cellular Biology	Social Network of Cancer Genes
2019	3rd	Bhavya	Ghai	Computer Science	Let's Make Technology Fair Again!
2018	1st & People's Choice	Yi	Zheng	Psychology	How Do We Understand Foreign Accents?
2018	2nd	Molly	Graffam	SoMAS	Nitrogen - Public Water Enemy #1
2018	3rd	Anusha	Shankar	Ecology & Evolution	The Surprising Secrets of Sleeping Hummingbirds
2017	1st & People's Choice (tie)	Zoya	Vallari	Physics & Astronomy	Capturing ghost particles and telling apart real from fake
2017	2nd	Rajapillai	Pillai	Neuroscience	How to peer into the brain safely (and cheaply!)
2017	3rd & People's Choice (tie)	Elizabeth	Trimber	Cognitive Science, Psychology	How can we predict who will make impulsive decisions? With reward learning!
2017	People's Choice (tie)	Pratik	Kumar	Chemistry	Illuminating the Brain Circuits, one cell at a time
2014	1st	Katarzyna	Sawika	Biomedical Engineering	Development of a Novel Immunization Platform
2014	2nd	Nadia	Jaber	Molecular & Cellular Biology	You've got (too much) mail