Three Minute Thesis - 2020

    Three Minute Thesis - 2020 Registration 

    Currently enrolled doctoral and master's students in all disciplines at UAlbany will be eligible to participate in 3MT®. Work presented must have been conducted at UAlbany. Students should be in the final stages of graduate school so they have some sound conclusions and impacts from their research.

    Registration will remain open until 11:59pm on Friday, February 14, 2020.

    If your slide is not ready at the time of registration, you must upload it to 3MT PowerPoint Slides by 11:59 PM on February 17th 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 Rounds will be held on February 27, 2020. 

    Final Round (Top 8) will be held on March 4, 2020.

    For more information visit UAlbany 3MT. If you have any questions about the 3MT Competition, please contact our Graduate Assistant, Khadija Saunders, at ksaunders2@albany.edu.

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    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]).
    Preliminary Rounds - Availability
    Please select all days/times that you would be available to participate in the preliminary rounds.
    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.