Three Minute Thesis - 2025 Finalists

Here are the winners of Illinois State University's Three Minute Thesis competition held on February 27, 2025, at the Normal Theater.

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• Kathleen Tierney (First place)

  Agriculture: The Stress of Separation: Exploring the Effects of Weaning on Beef Calves

• Sierra Mack-Erb (Second Place)

  Sociology and Anthropology: Rural Perspectives on Design: A Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design National Participant Study

• Tuba Yasmin Lubna (People's Choice)

  Agriculture: Converting Cover Crop Biomass to Volatile Fatty Acids

• Oku Emmanuella Adaugo 

  Creative Technologies: Stimulating Focus and Calmness Through Soft Fabrication: A User Centered Approach

• Liza Gautam 

  Biological Sciences: From Stinkweed to Superfeed: Lowering Glucosinolate (GSL) Levels in Pennycress

• Munchuree Kaosayapandhu 

  Teaching and Learning: Tensions and Possibilities: A Study of International Graduate Students’ Encounters with Critical Pedagogy in the United States

• Beth Killam

  Nursing: Implicit Bias Training Effectiveness on Perinatal Nurse: Implicit Bias Awareness and Behavior

• Ryan Krakowiak 

  Geography, Geology, and the Environment: Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Demand in East-Central Illinois

• Jaden O’Berry 

  Theatre and Dance: Designing Identity: Merging Broadway Glamour and Midwestern Queer Identity Through Lighting Design

• Kountiala J. Somé 

  Teaching and Learning: Language Ideologies in Coloniality Contexts: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of EFL Teachers’ Experiences and Perceptions on the Use of Learners’ Language Repertoire as Assets for Teaching and Learning