Incredible Master’s Student Scholarship At The 2017 GSAS Threesis Academic Challege

The 2017 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge was a huge success! Challenged to present their graduate research in just three minutes with only a single PowerPoint slide, nearly 100 master’s students from departments and programs across GSAS completed mentoring and advanced to the Threesis Qualifying Rounds. Many thanks to our esteemed GSAS faculty who served as expert judges from a range of fields, and, after careful consideration, selected twelve finalists to take the stage of Eisner and Lubin Auditorium in the Kimmel Center for Student Life on April 22, 2017 and compete in the Final Round for the coveted title of Threesis Champion.

An audience made up of GSAS students, faculty, friends, and family–as well as alumni from the MCAA–attended the Threesis Finals and listened to incredible presentations from our finalists. Topics ranged from the use of virtual reality in increasing human empathy, to an exploration of the layered complexities of a 400-year-old English text on bees, and an incredible history of a summer cottage in Rhode Island. As always, the presentations were compelling and captivated both the judges and the audience.

After much deliberation by our final judges and our traditional audience vote, representatives of the Master’s College Program Board, the Master’s College Alumni Association, and the Graduate School of Arts and Science bestowed awards on the winners of the 2017 Threesis Academic Challenge:

You can see video highlights from this year’s Threesis, along with the full winning presentations, on the Threesis website: http://gsas.nyu.edu/student-life/the-masters-college/the-gsas-threesis-academic-challenge.html

And check out photos from throughout on the Master’s College Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/pg/gsasmasterscollege/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1686310768062825