UWaterloo Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2020 champions are announced

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

When over 200 students registered to compete in the faculty-based 3MT heats between February 3 and March 13, not one of them anticipated that a global pandemic would render the in-person University-wide competition impossible.  But the show must go on!  With the faculty-based 3MT champions named, Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted the first ever virtual 3MT competition.

Over 1500 votes were cast for the People's Choice award, as the esteemed panel of judges deliberated over who should be the 2020 Waterloo champion.  The results are in:

2020 First place ($1000)

Jasdeep Multani, MArch Candidate, School of Architecture 
Supervisor: Jonathan Enns
Presentation title: Designing Classrooms of the Future: Incorporating Sensory Cognizant Design Strategies

Jasdeep will represent University of Waterloo at the Ontario Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Provincial Competition to be hosted by University of Windsor.

 

2020 Second place ($500)

Yara Mohiar, MSc Candidate, School of Optometry and Vision Science
Supervisor: Elizabeth Irving
Presentation title: The Pressures of Space Exploration

 

2020 Third place ($250)

Robert Bennett, MASc Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Supervisor: Youngki Yoon
Presentation title: Simulating the Technology of Tomorrow

 

2020 People's Choice winner ($250)

Sarena Daljeet, MA Candidate, Psychology
Supervisor: Jonathan Oakman
Presentation title: How Do You Feel About That?

 

Congratulations to all of University of Waterloo's 2020 Three Minute Thesis competitors!