Past Winners
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
Location: SAC Auditorium
Date: Friday, March 13, 2026 from 10 am to 3 pm
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Esther | Opoola | Molecular and Cellular Biology | RSVP Required: Infections Denied Entry! |
| 2nd | Tamor | Khan | Neuroscience | Scribbling Away Memories |
| 3rd | Sarah | Betz | Economics | Finding Home: The Forces That Shape Migration |
| People's Choice | Sarah | Betz | Economics | Finding Home: The Forces That Shape Migration |
3MT 2026 Competitors
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
Location: SAC Auditorium
Date: Friday, March 28, 2025 from 10 am to 2 pm
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sai | Abasolo | Biomedical Engineering | Growing Bones: Body Not Included |
| 2nd | Maryam | Azmi | Genetics | Shrinking Brain's Superheroes! |
| 3rd | Chenyu | Zhang | Civil Engineering | From Scribbles to Safety: Drones and AI for Smarter Bridge Inspections |
| People's Choice | Sai | Abasolo | Biomedical Engineering | Finding Home: The Forces That Shape Migration |
3MT 2025 Competitors
| Name | Program | Talk Title and Video Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Sai Abasolo | Biomedical Engineering | Growing Bones: Body Not Included |
| Maryam Azmi | Genetics | Shrinking Brain's Superheroes! |
| Ariek Barakat Norford | Ecology & Evolution | Monkeys: The Gardeners of the Forest |
| Julia Brown | English | Flipping the Script in Healthcare |
| Kevin Hatton | Geosciences | The Past is the Key to the Present |
| Varun Kankanallu | Chemical & Molecular Engineering | Realizing Safer Batteries |
| Sam Kim | Molecular & Cellular Biology | Tracking Cancer Cells On the Move |
| Jackie Martin | Neuroscience | The Undead in Your Head: Targeting Zombie Cells in the Aging Brain |
| Nikita Soni | Computer Science | Why Doesn't Your Smart Device Get YOU (Yet)? |
| Pallavi Surana | Biomedical Informatics | Decoding Cancer |
| Grace B. Wivell | Linguistics | One Little Language, So Much to Learn |
| Chenyu Zhang | Civil Engineering | From Scribbles to Safety: Drones and AI for Smarter Bridge Inspections |
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
Location: Wang Center Lecture Halls 1 and 2
Date: Friday, March 8, 2024 from 10 am to 2 pm
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Catherine | Feldman | Physics & Astronomy | FLASH Photography: Exploding Stars on Computers |
| 2nd | Ashley | Barry | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | "Madness" in the Movies |
| 3rd | Shoumik | Saha | Chemical & Molecular Engineering | Melting Alaska: Can Polymers Preserve the Last Frontier? |
| People's Choice | Laiba | Bilal | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Unlocking Xenon's Super Powers |
3MT 2024 Competitors
| Name | Program | Talk Title and Video Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Ashley Barry | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | "Madness" in the Movies |
| Arghya Bhattacharya | Computer Science | Computing Efficiently with Shared Resources |
| Laiba Bilal | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Unlocking Xenon's Super Powers |
| Mohammad Fauzan | Molecular and Cell Biology | The Source of the Brain Taxi |
| Catherine Feldman | Physics and Astronomy | FLASH Photography: Exploding Stars on Computers |
| Caitlin Hetherington | Chemistry | Connecting the Dots to Save the Planet |
| Marija Iloska | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Making the Most of What We Can't See |
| Charles Kocher | Physics and Astronomy | Life Wasn't Lucky |
| Alexander Kwakye | Genetics, Ecology and Evolution | How Rapid Evolution Happens |
| Gönenç Moğol | Physics and Astronomy | A Minute in the Life of a Molecule |
| Shoumik Saha | Chemical and Molecular Engineering | Melting Alaska: Can Polymers Preserve the Last Frontier? |
| Sayantani Sikder | Chemical and Molecular Engineering | Tracking the Dance of NOx |
| Gurulakshmi Subramanian | Physics and Astronomy | The Dance of Stars in Gravity |
| Anna Thonis | Ecology and Evolution | Hurricanes Affect the Lizards, Too |
| Yijie Tian | Ecology and Evolution | Who Were the Barbarians? |
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
Location: Wang Center Lecture Halls 1 and 2
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 from 10 am to 2 pm
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Katherine | Kling | Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences | Paradise Lost in Madagascar? |
| 2nd | Kaushik | Londhe | Civil Engineering | Can Radiation Solve Our Drinking Water Problem? |
| 3rd | Yen-Wen (Samantha) | Chen | Integrative Neuroscience | How the Aging Brain Processes Loneliness |
| People's Choice | Yen-Wen (Samantha) | Chen | Integrative Neuroscience | How the Aging Brain Processes Loneliness |
3MT 2023 Competitors
| Name | Program | Talk Title and Video Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Anand Aiyer | Computer Science | Taming ‘Entangled’ Accessibility Forums |
| Haley Akemi Briggles | Music | Silencing the Stereotypes, not Asian Americans |
| Yen-Wen (Samantha) Chen | Integrative Neuroscience | How the Aging Brain Processes Loneliness |
| Jacob Crosser | Applied Mathematics and Statistics | Much Ado About Brain Models |
| Jacob Feder | Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences | Why Monkey Families Break Up |
| Brianna Gonzalez | Integrative Neuroscience | Your Brain on "Fake News" |
| Katherine Kling | Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences | Paradise Lost in Madagascar? |
| Kaushik Londhe | Civil Engineering | Can Radiation Solve Our Drinking Water Problem? |
| Tanzir Pial | Computer Science | From 4 letter DNA to Natural Language Alignments |
| Joanne Saldanha | Genetics | A Fork in the Road to Cancer Therapy |
| Mae Saslaw | Geosciences | Water in the Desert |
| Danilo Segovia | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Understanding the Play of Life |
| Zongxing Xie | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Wireless Sensing for In-home Health Monitoring |
| Yunting Yin | Computer Science | The Sound of Aging |
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
SBU 3MT 2022 Award Ceremony: 3rd Place Farzana Ali (Upper left), 1st Place Derek Pope (Upper right), and 2nd Place and People's Choice Xinan Chen (Center bottom).
Location: Online via Zoom
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Derek | Pope | Science/STEM Education | Imagine Actually Understanding Math? Student teachers' beliefs about how math should be taught |
| 2nd | Xinan | Chen | Applied Math and Statistics | How Do Neuro-Degenerative Diseases Affect Our Brain? |
| 3rd | Farzana | Ali | Biomedical Engineering | Let Your Watch Pick Your Medicine! |
| People's Choice | Xinan | Chen | Applied Math and Statistics | How Do Neuro-Degenerative Diseases Affect Our Brain? |
3MT 2022 Competitors
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
SBU 3MT 2021 Award Ceremony: 3rd Place (tie) Shruti Iyer (Upper left), 3rd Place (tie) Amanda Russso (Upper right), 2nd Place and People's Choice Sara Santos (Bottom left), and 1st Place Chun-Hao Pan (Bottom right).
Location: Online via Zoom
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Chun-Hao | Pan | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Targeting Keratin 17 in Pancreatic Cancer: A Therapeutic Window Opens |
| 2nd | Sara | Santos | English | Living in the End of the World |
| 3rd (tie) | Shruti | Iyer | Genetics | Solving Genetic Puzzles to Understand Cancer |
| 3rd (tie) | Amanda | Russo | Integrative Neuroscience, Psychology | Getting Rid of Traumatic Memories |
| People's Choice | Sara | Santos | English | Living in the End of the World |
3MT 2021 Competitors
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
Location: Online via Zoom
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sonali | Gera | Physics and Astronomy | Building a Quantum Computer, One Particle at a Time |
| 2nd | Xiaoqing | Zhang | Heath and Rehabilitation Sciences | Children Left Behind in Rural China--"I can Be Resilient and Happy" |
| 3rd | Keffy | Kehrli | Genetics | Evolution: Comparing more than Just the Sequences of Our Genes |
| People's Choice | Xiaoqing | Zhang | Heath and Rehabilitation Sciences | Children Left Behind in Rural China--"I can Be Resilient and Happy" |
3MT 2020 Competitors
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Olivia | Swanson | Neuroscience | Brain in Motion |
| 2nd | Xiaoyu | Zhao | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Social Network of Cancer Genes |
| 3rd | Bhavya | Ghai | Computer Science | Let's Make Technology Fair Again! |
| People's Choice | Xiaoyu | Zhao | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Social Network of Cancer Genes |
3MT 2019 Competitors
| Name | Program | Talk Title and Video Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Rimby | English | A Queer Meeting: Whitman and Wilde in Camden, NJ |
| Andy Eicher | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Looking to the Past to Think About the Future |
| Bihua Yu | Applied Math | Cracking the Folding Puzzle |
| Bhavya Ghai | Computer Science | Let's Make Technology Fair Again! |
| Brian Hartwig | English | Stage to Page in the Progressive Era |
| Chaudhry Hassan | Biomedical Engineering | Let it flow! |
| Javier Gastón-Greenberg | Hispanic Languages and Literature | Hero Genesis |
| Jinelle Wint | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Fishing for a Cure |
| Joelle Mann | English | Viral Voices and Novel Forms of Expression |
| Lauren Ruiz | Art | DNA and Disposables: Nothing Disappears |
| Mohammad Mahdi Javanmard | Computer Science | How to Make Dynamic Programming Algorithms Faster |
| Nusnin Akter | Materials Science and Chemical Engineering | Toxic Gas Removal from Car Exhaust |
| Olivia Swanson | Neuroscience | Brain in Motion |
| Pawan Sharma | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences | Freedom from Hand Paralysis |
| Prithviraj Rajebhosale | Neuroscience | Tracking Trauma in the Brain |
| Stephanie Bonvissuto | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | We Are Where We Can Enter |
| Tara Holmes | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | How the Movies Made Me A Lesbian |
| Xiaoyi Hu | Mechanical Engineering | Miniature Waves |
| Xiaoyu Zhao | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Social Network of Cancer Genes |
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Yi | Zheng | Psychology | How Do We Understand Foreign Accents? |
| 2nd | Molly | Graffam | SoMAS | Nitrogen - Public Water Enemy #1 |
| 3rd | Anusha | Shankar | Ecology and Evolution | The Surprising Secrets of Sleeping Hummingbirds |
| People's Choice | Yi | Zheng | Psychology | How Do We Understand Foreign Accents? |
3MT 2018 Competitors
| Name | Program | Talk Title and Video Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara J. Brennan | Social Welfare | Siblings: The Hidden Casualities of the Opioid Epidemic |
| Shrinath Deshpande | Mechanical Engineering | Machine Design for Motion Tasks using Artificial Intelligence |
| Molly Graffam | School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | Nitrogen - Public Water Enemy #1 |
| Stacey Greengold | Science Education | Those Who Understand, Teach...Chemistry! |
| Lis Henderson | School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | How Fish Survive the Long Hot Summer |
| Kelly Hacker Jones | History | The Point of Alternative Medicine |
| Chang Kyung (Joanna) Kim | Pharmacological Sciences | Trust your gut |
| Corinna Kirsch | Art History | Life and Death in Art's First Computer Age |
| Tilsa Ore Monago | Economics | Should you switch? On the race to make you stay |
| Vihitaben Patel | Biomedical Engineering | Good Vibrations: Buzzing Your Way to Metabolic Fitness |
| Anusha Shankar | Ecology and Evolution | Why Hummingbirds Peeing at Night is Exciting News |
| Martin Smyth | Technology and Society | Predicting Mass-Mobilization Political Phenomena |
| Tatiana E. Tchoubar | Technology and Society | How Can People Get to Know Things? Cognitive Model of Virtual Information Communication |
| Estefania Vergara | Economics | Small Changes, Big Impact: Measuring and predicting the economic effects of changes in business games |
| Jingming Wang | Pharmacological Sciences | Getting Cancer From Your Broken DNA |
| Yi Zheng | Psychology | How Do We Understand Foreign Accents? |
| Weibo Zhou | Economics | Family Structure Matters: How parents help pay for college study |
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st and People's Choice (tie) | Zoya | Vallari | Physics and Astronomy | Capturing ghost particles and telling apart real from fake |
| 2nd | Rajapillai | Pillai | Neuroscience | How to peer into the brain safely (and cheaply!) |
| 3rd and People's Choice (tie) | Elizabeth | Trimber | Cognitive Science, Psychology | How can we predict who will make impulsive decisions? With reward learning! |
| People's Choice (tie) | Pratik | Kumar | Chemistry | Illuminating the Brain Circuits, one cell at a time |
3MT 2017 Competitors
Congratulations to Our Winners for Best Talks
| Award | First Name | Last Name | Graduate Program | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Katarzyna | Sawika | Biomedical Engineering | Development of a Novel Immunization Platform |
| 2nd | Nadia | Jaber | Molecular and Cellular Biology | You've got (too much) mail |