{"id":31925,"date":"2018-05-10T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31925"},"modified":"2018-05-13T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:41:10","slug":"bartel-wins-inaugural-mountain-lion-grad-slam-three-minute-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31925","title":{"rendered":"Bartel wins inaugural Mountain Lion Grad Slam Three Minute Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alisa Bartel, center, is congratulated by members of the judging panel during the awards ceremony for the Mountain Lion Grad Slam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A graduate thesis often takes months or years of research. Once it\u2019s ready, students will sometimes take up to two hours to defend it in front of a committee of graduate faculty who are already specialists in that field.<\/p>\n

Eight UCCS students didn’t want to stop there. They took the challenging process one step further and signed up to present their research in three minutes to a panel with only limited knowledge of their subject during the inaugural Mountain Lion Grad Slam 3MT competition. Alisa Bartel, a graduate student in psychology, won the top prize with \u201cDifferent Not Damaged\u201d during the finals May 4 at the Gallogly Events Center.<\/p>\n

Bartel won the $750 top prize after she qualified as one of five finalists. Claire Trotter, a biology student, won second place with \u201cLowering Skin Temperature Improves Blood Loss Tolerance Following Exercise in Heat\u201d and won the $500 prize. Patrick Yarbrough, a physics doctorate student, earned the People\u2019s Choice Award and a $250 prize with \u201cExcitation of Spin Waves in a Magnetic Nanowire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants were limited to a strict three-minute time limit and one static PowerPoint slide. A panel of UCCS faculty and staff served as the evaluators for each round.<\/p>\n

The competition is based on the \u201cThree Minute Thesis\u201d established in 2008 by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The goal is to develop the skill to effectively explain the significance of their research to those who aren\u2019t experts in their area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alisa Bartel only needed three minutes to present her graduate thesis “Different Not Damaged” to win the top prize in the first Mountain Lion Grad Slam 3MT competition. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[53,86,106,124,130,190],"class_list":["post-31925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-academic-affairs","tag-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","tag-department-of-biology","tag-department-of-physics-and-energy-science","tag-department-of-psychology","tag-graduate-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/3mt.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-8iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31937,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925\/revisions\/31937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}