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2025 Three Minute Thesis Competitors

Winners

First Place: Holly Olvera — Biomedical Engineering, PhD
Common Infant Product Materials Negatively Impact Breathing

Second Place: Thomas Wenzel — Kinesiology, MS
“Influence of Sex on Tibial Bending and Stress at Varying Running Speeds and Surfaces”

Third Place: Mia Toronto — Biomolecular Sciences, PhD
“From Label to Lips: Ensuring Vitamins Deliver on the Their Promise”

Fourth Place: Aman KC — Geophysics, PhD
“Tracking Glacier Change for Safer Communities”

Audience Choice: Colin Martin — Biology, MS
“Ribbons of Life: Remote Sensing of Riverscapes in the Arid West”

Competitors

Ben Balzer — Biology, MS
“Advancements in Digital Nucleic Acid Memory using DNA Origami”

Yafa Benavidez — Mechanical Engineering, MS
Biomechanics of Bedsharing

Asif Bhuiyan — Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD
“Let’s Dance with Light: Silicon Carbide Photonics for Extreme Environment Sensing”

Farnaz Darghiasi — Biomedical Engineering, PhD
“Building Bones That Build Themselves”

Dawson Lee — Mechanical Engineering, MS
“Studying Mechanical Properties During Bedsharing”

Cindy Montoto — Education, Curriculum, and Instruction, MA
“Learning Spanish from the Outside In™”

Mahmudul Peyal — Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS
“When Computers Learn Like Us!”

Ajay Pratap — Materials Science and Engineering, PhD
“Contact electrification of materials for energy harvesting”

Brennan Williams-Mieding — Geosciences, MS
“Did Mars have Explosive Volcanoes? We may have found clues.”