Three Minute Thesis - 2023 Finalists

Here are the winners of Illinois State University's Three Minute Thesis competition held on February 23, 2022, at the Normal Theater.

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• Sadia Sultana (First place)

  Biological Sciences: Survival of the Fittest - A Bleach Defense System in Bacterial Pathogens

• Nicholas Steffenhagen (Second Place)

  Music: Musical Mastery: How Students Become Professionals

• Sanhawich Meateanuwat (People's Choice)

  Theatre and Dance: From Eurocentric to Global: Flipping canonical western texts to create global conversations

• Rebecca Chicosky

  Biological Sciences: A Killer Addiction: How understanding dopamine can help make safer drugs

• Holly Filsinger

  Wonsook Kim School of Art: Art, Time, and Power in the Work of Ken Gonzales-Day and Cannupa Hanska Luger

• Kathryn Keithley

  Economics: ’What, like it’s hard?’ Can STEM Employers Learn about their Workers’ Productivity?

• Thunsinee Muangthon

  Teaching and Learning: Becoming a Reflective Practitioner

• Bothwell Piason

  Criminal Justice Sciences: Mothering Experiences of Women in Jail

• Whitney Spencer 

  Special Education: Special Education Teacher Burnout

• Savannah Thielbar

  Geography, Geology, and the Environment: Human Impacts on Erosion Rates in Starved Rock State Park, Illinois

• Reagen Tibbs

  Agriculture: Examining the Perceptions of Precision Agriculture Technologies and On-Farm Precision Experimentation