This year’s 2018 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge was an incredible success! With the challenge to present their graduate research in just three minutes, armed with only a single PowerPoint slide, nearly 100 master’s students from departments and programs across GSAS applied to the program, over 80 completed mentoring, and a final group of over 50 advanced to the Qualifying Rounds. A huge thank you to our esteemed GSAS faculty who aided us in serving as expert judges from a range of fields, and, after careful deliberation, selected twelve finalists who would take the stage of the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium in the Kimmel Center for Student Life on April 14th, 2018 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 facial-recognition to detect empathy, to examining the long tradition of giving books as gifts, and changing the world through songwriting. 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, prizes and awards were bestowed by the winner of the 2017 Audience Choice award, Loren Dent (International Relations, 2017), the 2017 Threesis Champion, Sarah Stodder (Journalism, 2017), the President of the MCAA, Calvin Vinitwatanakhun (Math in Finance, 2014), and the GSAS Dean Phil Harper.
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Mass Produced personal Treasure: Gift Books in Antebellum America
Songwriting: A Tool for Empowering Youth
Check out photos from throughout on the Master’s College Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/gsasmasterscollege/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2086793804681184
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