The Three Minute Thesis, developed at the University of Queensland, challenges participants to present their research in just three minutes using everyday language to an audience.
The 2025 Ohio State Undergraduate 3-Minute Thesis Competition was held on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the Ohio Union Round Room.
Application Information
Applications for the 3-Minute Thesis Competition have now closed. Check back in next year for the 2026 3-Minute Thesis application.
Students should be prepared to submit the following materials:
Section I: Student Presenter's Contact Information
Section II: Research Mentor’s Contact Information
Section III: Funding Support
Section IV: Research/Creative Project Title and Abstract
Students will be required to upload a 1-minute video briefly explaining their project. For the competition, you get to display 1 single, static slide, and explain your research in a maximum of 3 minutes. For this 1-minute summary, you can choose to include any images or slides in this video. We recommend creating a video to your CarmenZoom account in the cloud. You can then share the link to your video below.
For more information about uploading a video to the CarmenZoom cloud, please visit the Ohio State CarmenZoom Recording Guides.
Past 3-Minute Thesis Competition Winners
*Indicates Honorable Mention
- 2025 - Mateo Zevallos
- 2025 - Emily Weagle
- 2022 - Pete Jordanides
- 2022 - Isabelle Aguilar
- 2022 - Amani Djouadi
- 2022 - Natalia Mendonca
- 2021 - Sarah Haysley
- 2021 - Erin Gililand
- 2021 - Harrshavasan Congivaram
- 2021 - Cara Noel
- 2021 - Will Marshall
- 2021 - Kara Komarnitsky
- 2019 - Heath Pechtl
- 2019 - Douglas Fink
- 2019 - Sarthak Soni
- 2019 - Bryce Boron, Psychology*
- 2019 - Timothy Kirby
- 2019 - James White
- 2019 - Cara Dauch
- 2018 - Isaiah Johnson
- 2018- Sydney Clark
- 2018 - Emma Megla
- 2018 - Alexandra Smith
- 2018 - Stephen Gant
- 2018 - Hilary Kordecki
- 2018 - Nick Krause
- 2018 - Camile Bratton
- 2018 - Melanie Smith
- 2018 - Scott Stuckney
- 2018 - Anthony Milian
- 2018 - Maya Gosztyla
- 2018 - Eleni Packis
- 2018 - Sunny Kwok*
- 2018 - Samantha Goode*
- 2017 - Henry Wu
- 2017 - Alison Baker
- 2017 - Matt Schneider
- 2017 - Nicole Puccetti
- 2017 - Olivia Fitzpatrick
- 2017 - Mohit Deshpande