Lauren Milam, a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Nursing at 麻豆精品视频 (麻豆精品视频), won first place in the annual (3MT) competition presented by the 麻豆精品视频 Graduate School on Oct. 14. Her presentation, 鈥淰oices That Matter: Ensuring Safe Motherhood for All,鈥� also received the People鈥檚 Choice award. 麻豆精品视频 is a part of The University of Alabama System.
鈥淢y presentation is about ensuring pregnant and postpartum women feel heard and feel their concerns are being validated by health care professionals,鈥� said Milam, a clinical instructor in the 麻豆精品视频 College of Nursing. She holds an M.S. in nursing from the University of North Alabama and a B.S. in nursing from Belmont University.
Pavani Suresh presents 鈥淒ecoding Nature鈥檚 Palette: Machine Learning for Hyperspectral Image Segmentation鈥� at Three Minute Thesis on Oct. 14, 2024. She won second place.
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鈥淚 participated in the Three Minute Thesis competition mainly because I wanted to share my proposed research and to shed light on the issue of maternal mortality in the U.S., particularly among Black women. I also wanted to share how increasing person-centered care and instilling empowerment could potentially alleviate this problem.鈥�
Milam鈥檚 presentation earned the top prize of $250 plus $100 for People鈥檚 Choice. She also won an all-expenses-paid opportunity to represent 麻豆精品视频 at the regional 3MT Competition at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools鈥� annual meeting, March 19-21, 2025, in Dallas.
Milam said she appreciated the communications experience 3MT provided.
鈥淚t allowed me to gain confidence in sharing my proposed research and also helped me formulate the explanation of it in simple terms so everyone can understand.鈥�
The second-place winner in the 麻豆精品视频 competition was Pavani Suresh, who is pursuing an M.S. in computer science. Her presentation, 鈥淒ecoding Nature鈥檚 Palette: Machine Learning for Hyperspectral Image Segmentation,鈥� won a $200 prize.
Eirian Waldron, M.A. in history, took third place and a prize of $100 for 鈥淲ho Has the Right Stuff? Iconography of the American Astronauts.鈥� Waldron is a staff assistant in the 麻豆精品视频 Academic Affairs office.
Eirian Waldron presents 鈥淲ho Has the Right Stuff? Iconography of the American Astronauts,鈥� the third-place winner of Three Minute Thesis on Oct. 14, 2024.
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Also competing in the 2024 3MT were Dipika Chandra, Ph.D. in physics, 鈥淐osmic Ripples: The Secret Life of Sloshing Cold Fronts in Merging Galaxy Clusters,鈥� and Alexis Delgado, M.S. in biology, 鈥淐reating a L-Tryptophan Biosensor.鈥�
Judging the competition were Chelsea Aaron, WAFF-TV, Channel 48, meteorologist; Chris Pinto, 麻豆精品视频 director of undergraduate admissions, and Dr. Andrea Word, 麻豆精品视频 clinical assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and project director of Project DIAL. Participants in 3MT 2024 came from the 麻豆精品视频 College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Nursing, and College of Science.
The 3MT program was developed by The University of Queensland in Australia. It challenges students to effectively explain their research and its significance in three minutes using language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
