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�Ӱ�ԭ�� University held its annual Three Minute Thesis Competition on March 27, 2025. Two rounds of competition were held earlier in the day before eight finalists competed for the top prizes in the late afternoon. Contest prizes up for grabs by grad students consisted of one first-place prize of $500, one second-place prize of $300, one third-place prize of $200 and honourable mention.

The 2025 winners from �Ӱ�ԭ�� are:

First Place: Geneviève Haché, Chemistry. “Out of the non-stick pan, into our waters: PFAS and their foothold in the Great Lakes’ aquatic life cycles.” Watch the winning presentation below:

Second Place: Raegan Davis, Biology. “Dam it, I’m stranded: quantifying fish stranding downstream of hydropeaking facilities.”&�Բ�����;.

Third Place: Tejas Kokatnur, Building Engineering. “Why pay for cooling when you can stay cool for free? Exploring passive strategies in low-income housing.” .

Honourable Mention: Dunja Palic, Management. “Making sense of qualified immigrants’ career transitions: The role of context, time, and resourcefulness.”&�Բ�����;.

Founded by the University of Queensland in Australia, 3MT celebrates graduate student research and takes place at universities around the world. Participants have to summarize their research in no more than 180 seconds. The judges for this year’s competition were:

• Nathalie Laporte, Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Business Officers, Board of Governors, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• John Nelson, Director, Innovation Hub, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• Virginia Taylor, Treasurer, Tanzania Education and Micro-Business Opportunity

The finalists’ presentations are available on our  In addition to the above-mentioned prize winners, the finalists included:

Isaac Finkelstein (Biology): 

Jennice Hinds (Linguistics): 

Irbaz Rehman (Chemical and Environmental Toxicology): 

Hannah Villeneuve (Building Engineering):