UPEI graduate students compete in the Three Minute Thesis
They've researched. They've studied. Now graduate students at the University of Prince Edward Island are putting their hard work to the test: they're cramming years of study into 180 seconds in UPEI's first ever Three Minute Thesis competition.
The Three Minute Thesis is a skills development activity developed by the University of Queensland, Australia, which challenges thesis-based graduate students to explain their research project to a general audience in just three minutes.
Students will compete against each other for three prizes: third place wins $50; second place wins $100; and first place wins $200 and a trip to Halifax to participate in the regional Three Minute Thesis competition.
The competition will be broken into two evenings-Tuesday, March 18 and Tuesday, March 25. Both events begin at 7:00 pm in The Wave, in UPEI's W.A. Murphy Student Centre.
The Three Minute Thesis is organized by the UPEI Graduate Student Association, the UPEI Student Union, and the Vice-President Research and Graduate Studies.
For information:
Dave Atkinson, Research Communications
datkinson@upei.ca, (902) 620-5117
