{"id":79342,"date":"2018-05-07T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=79342"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:26:32","slug":"three-minute-thesis-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/07\/three-minute-thesis-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicology student wins Three Minute Thesis Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzHNV1THWzs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>More than 40 <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> graduate students representing more than 30 majors and programs competed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/graduate\/content\/three-minute-thesis-3mt-competition-2018#overlay-context=\">Three Minute Thesis Competition<\/a> on April 28. Students had to explain their master\u2019s or doctoral research in three minutes or less and were evaluated on their ability to convey the gist of their research questions and results in a manner that is understandable and engaging and not trivializing.<\/p>\n<p>The competition finalists were <strong>Daniel Mahi<\/strong>, <strong>Natalija Glibetic<\/strong>, <strong>Florencia Duron Delfin<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Honda<\/strong>, <strong>Nicole Chatterson<\/strong>, <strong>Leslee Mathews<\/strong>, <strong>Rebecca Carino<\/strong>, <strong>Imelda<\/strong> (no last name), <strong>Kelsea Hosoda<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Repp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79341\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-winners-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Glibetic and Duron Delfin holding awards\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-winners-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-winners.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Minute Thesis Competition winners, from left, Natalija Glibetic (second place) and Florencia Duron Delfin (first place and people\u2019s choice). (Photo courtesy of Chase Nuuhiwa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first place and people\u2019s choice winner was Duron Delfin, a master\u2019s degree candidate from the Department of Communicology. She won over the judges and audience members with a summary of her research on the influence of environment on negative emotion expression. Duron Delfin\u2019s research showed that women exposed to scenes of nature were significantly more expressive of their emotions and less likely to suppress anger than women exposed to urban scenes.<\/p>\n<p>The second place winner was Glibetic, a molecular biosciences and bioengineering student who is also completing her master\u2019s degree. Glibetic explained how sepsis, a common blood-borne infection, often causes lethal leakage in blood vessels. Her laboratory research has shown significant promise in reversing this clinical infection, by identifying key proteins that help \u201cplug\u201d these leaks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79340\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-finalsit.jpg\" alt=\"10 people standing in a line holding certificates\" width=\"676\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-finalsit.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-finalsit-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Minute Thesis Competition finalists from left, Daniel Mahi, Natalija Glibetic, Florencia Duron Delfin, Michael Honda, Nicole Chatterson, Leslee Mathews, Rebecca Carino, Imelda (no last name), Kelsea Hosoda and Andrew Repp. (Photo courtesy of Chase Nuuhiwa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>More about the Three Minute Thesis Competition<\/h2>\n<p>The Three Minute Thesis Competition is a challenge considering it would take a person two hours to read out loud an average master\u2019s thesis manuscript and about six and a half hours to read out loud an average doctoral dissertation manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>This event, started in 2008 by The University of Queensland, is now held at more than 600 universities around the world in 65 countries. Dean of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/graduate\/\">Graduate Division<\/a> <strong>Krystyna Aune<\/strong> brought this competition to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa to give graduate students an opportunity to further develop their communication skills and share their research with the campus and public.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, 27 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa faculty members judged the preliminary round\u2014the master\u2019s and doctoral competitions. In the final round, master\u2019s and doctoral students went head-to-head. Judges included <abbr>UH<\/abbr> regents, the vice president for academic policy and planning, a news anchor, a journalist and business and community leaders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79338\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-judges.jpg\" alt=\"9 people sitting in auditorium\" width=\"676\" height=\"277\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-judges.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-graduate-3minute-competition-judges-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Minute Thesis Competition final round judges, top row from left, Omar Sultan, Catherine Toth Fox, Carol Mon Lee, Randy Moore and Mahealani Richardson and bottom row from left, Donald Straney, Lee Putnam, Melanie Ide and Shaunaugh Robbins. (Photo courtesy of Chase Nuuhiwa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate students representing more than 30 majors and programs competed in the Three Minute Thesis Competition on April 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[507,660,9,56],"class_list":["post-79342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-graduate-education","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79349,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79342\/revisions\/79349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}