Three Minute Thesis Competition

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) celebrates the exciting research conducted by PhD students. Developed by The University of Queensland, the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies organized the inaugural Three Minute Thesis competition at Tulane in 2015. We award a Grand Prize to a winner selected by the judges and a People’s Choice Award to the audience favorite. Grand Prize winners have gone on to represent Tulane at the regional Three Minute Thesis competition held each spring at the annual meeting of the Council of Southern Graduate Schools.

The competition for the 2024-2025 Academic Year will be held on Thursday, November 7 at 2 pm in the Freeman Auditorium of the Woldenberg Art Center. The competition will be free and open to the public, and all are encouraged to attend!