Three Minute Thesis

2023 3MT participants from left to right: Fae Hajhosseini, Md. Arafat Ali, Clayton Brady, Sandipa Bhattacharjee, Min Ma, Josie Diebold, Haley Chizuk, Leo Marecki and Mruganka Parasnis.

UB's Ninth Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition will take place on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Developed by the University of Queensland, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by PhD students by cultivating students’ academic, presentation and research communication skills.

Participants are judged on the ability to effectively convey the essence and importance of their research in an engaging way to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes, with one PowerPoint slide.

The University at Buffalo 3MT Competition is co-hosted by the Graduate School and the Startup and Innovation Collaboratory (CoLab) powered by Blackstone LaunchPad.

3MT Micro-credential

The 3MT micro-credential Communicating Research to Broad Audiences is an optional resource intended to help graduate students interested in participating in the Three Minute Thesis competition. Graduate students in all disciplines are eligible to participate.

Visit the 3MT micro-credential page for more information.