Grad - 2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT)


                                                                                                       

    The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland, Australia.

    The 8th Annual UAlbany 3MT® will be virtual for the preliminary round and in-person for the final round! Download the preliminary round 3MT® Virtual Competition Guidelines. 

    Currently enrolled doctoral and master's students in all disciplines at UAlbany will be eligible to participate in 3MT®. The work presented must have been conducted at UAlbany. Ideally, students should be in the final stages of their graduate program and have some conclusions and impacts from their research.

    • First Place: $1,000 
    • Second Place: $750 
    • Third Place: $500 
    • People's Choice: $250 (selected via audience vote) 

    Registration Deadline for Preliminary Round is February 6th, 2026, by 11:59 p.m.

    If your slide or video is not ready at the time of registration, you must upload your slide to 3MT® PowerPoint Slides and email your video link by 11:59 p.m. on February 6th in order to be eligible to participate.

    Your PowerPoint slide must be 1 (one) static, widescreen size (16:9). (in PowerPoint, click the Design tab, and then click Slide Size and choose Widescreen (16:9)).

    Preliminary Round Submissions will be evaluated the week of February 9th, 2026. 

    The Final Round will be held on March 10th, 2026.

    If you have any questions about the 3MT® Competition, please contact diversitygraduate@albany.edu.

    Visit the UAlbany 3MT® webpage for more information. 

    Basic Information
    Program Information
    Presentation Information
    Upload Your PowerPoint Slide to: 3MT® PowerPoint Slides.
    • Please use the following file name format: Last Name_First Name.ppt. 
    • Be sure that your PowerPoint Slide is in widescreen 16:9 Ratio (In PowerPoint, click the Design tab, and then click Slide Size. Choose Widescreen [16:9]).
    • View/use available template and background
    Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Guidelines
    • The 3MT® presentation must represent the original research of the participant.
    • The authors of the 3MT® presentation will retain all rights regarding its use at all times prior to and following the competition except as stated below.
    • Due to the nature of the competition, we will not ask judges, reviewers, staff or the audience to agree to or sign non-disclosure statements for any participant.
    • All public sessions of the competition, including but not limited to oral presentations, are open to the public at large. Any and all of these public sessions may be broadcast to interested persons through media which may include the Internet.
    • Any data or information discussed or divulged in public sessions by entrants should be considered information that will likely enter the public realm, and entrants should not assume any right of confidentiality in any data or information discussed, divulged or presented in these sessions. This means, if your research includes commercial-in- confidence or culturally sensitive material you should think very carefully about how you can present this information. We advise that you discuss you competition entry with the parties/s before entering the 3MT®
    • The University at Albany and the 3MT® Competition may make photocopies, photographs, videotapes and/or audiotapes of the presentations or material prepared for use in presentation at the 3MT®
    • UAlbany may use the materials in any book or other printed materials and any videotape or other medium that it may produce, provided that any profits earned from the sale of such items is used by the University solely to defray the costs of future 3MT® Competitions.
    • Presenters must obtain permission to use anything that is not their own (e.g. an image, graph, etc.) prior to competing in their round.