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2025 

Watch the full recording of Stanford University's inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, where graduate students from across disciplines take on the challenge of presenting their cutting-edge research in just three minutes.

Watch 2025 3MT Competition

2025 Finalists

Kristen Abels
From brines to batteries: Membranes for critical mineral recovery

Gabe Amador
Must Be This Tall to Ride: Plant Stem Cells Act According to Their Size

Catharine Bowman 
Lymphedema: Cancer Care Complication or the Sinister Side of Survivorship?

Lydia Burleson
2 Sides of American Utopia

Sarah Jobalia
HairFlow

 

Jodie Lunger
Engineering our own cells to fight cancer

Tamri Matiashvili
Talent, Trust, and Health: How Women Changed Medicine

Favour Nerrise
Quick Reflexes & Lost Memories: Teaching AI to Spot Brain Disease

Mikaela Ribi
Shining the Spotlight on Cancer’s Sweet Tricks

Aly Singleton
Highways and Hidden Epidemics: The Unseen Cost of Development

 

2025 Judges

Condoleezza Rice
Tad and Dianne Taube Director, Hoover Institution 

David Studdert
Vice Provost and Dean of Research
Professor of Health Policy (School of Medicine) and of Law (School of Law)

Martin Shell
Vice President, and Chief External Relations Officer

Michele Rasmussen
Vice Provost for Student Affairs

W. E. Moerner
Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2014

News

Highlight video: Ten Stanford PhD students took the stage at Hauck Auditorium last Thursday with a daunting task: Distill years of complex scholarship into a compelling, jargon-free, 3-minute talk for a general audience.