UGA’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to non-specialist audiences in the space of just three minutes. The winner takes home $1,000 and can represent UGA at the regional 3MT competition. Master’s and Doctoral students are eligible.
Final Competition:
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Morton Theatre (Downtown Athens)
This event is free and open to everyone!
Learn more!
2026 Finalists:
Anita Giabardo – “Teaching an Old Tree New Tricks”
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Ania M. Granadino – “The Case of the Missing Nitrogen in Blueberry Farms”
Department of Horticulture, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Pravalika Irukulla – “The Sole Solution–The Next Generation Care for Chronic Wounds”
College of Engineering (CMBE)
Kristi James – “Leading Under Pressure: Who Protects Our Public Health Leaders?”
Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health
Kyle Jones – “Daily Damage: How Your Cells Repair DNA Damage Every Single Day”
Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health
Muneeb Elahi Malik – “Crying Over Onions, Not Weeds”
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Katherine Araúz Ponce – “Forest and Coffee: A Landscape Where Birds Thrive Beyond the Farm”
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Moira Taber – “Jack, Jill, and the Fall Down the Hill: How Sex Differences Influence Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)”
Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Sankaranarayanan Venkatakrishnan – “Same Car. Same Miles. Different Battery Health?”
School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering (ECAM), College of Engineering
Joshua Weiss – “Teaching Old Cells New Tricks”
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
