  {"id":13540,"date":"2023-03-30T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:43","slug":"peoples-choice-winner-of-3mt-contest-panashe-kupakuwana-student-in-msc-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/peoples-choice-winner-of-3mt-contest-panashe-kupakuwana-student-in-msc-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Choice Winner of 3MT contest: Panashe Kupakuwana, student in MSc Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        People\u2019s Choice Winner of 3MT contest: Panashe Kupakuwana, student in MSc Biology\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to Panashe Kupakuwana, <a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/cu-programs\/biology-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biology MSc<\/a> student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ken-storey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Storey Lab<\/a> who is People\u2019s Choice Winner at the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/3mt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3MT contest<\/a> this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 17, 2023, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted its first in-person Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition since 2019. The competition saw two semi-final rounds before the top 10 finalists took to the stage. Contest prizes consist of one first-place prize of $750, one second-place prize of $400, one third-place prize of $250, and one \u201cpeople\u2019s choice\u201d prize of $150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panashe\u2019s presentation is titled,&nbsp;<em>A Guide on How to Live Without Oxygen<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=74QyaUkzN20&amp;t=28s&amp;ab_channel=CUGradStudies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the video here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about the award and read the full story, please <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2023\/the-2023-winners-of-carleton-universitys-three-minute-thesis-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Panashe Kupakuwana, Biology MSc student in the Storey Lab who is People\u2019s Choice Winner at the 3MT contest this year! On March 17, 2023, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted its first in-person Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition since 2019. The competition saw two semi-final rounds before the top 10 finalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13546,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}