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2025 Three Minute Thesis Competitors

Winners

Mason Bull — Geosciences, M.S.
“Tracking Greening of Alpine Watersheds: Classifying Landcover Change Via Remote Sensing”

Hannah Hedelius — Biomolecular Sciences, M.S.
“Cholera Toxin B Treatment Potential in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”

Jet Taylor — Kinesiology, M.S.
“Late-life depression through a neural lens: An investigation of the interplay between depression symptoms, reward processing, and physical activity in older adults”

Mallory Picl — Geosciences, M.S.
“Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Western Juniper Expansion in a Southwestern Idaho Watershed”

Patricia Azike — Computing, Ph.D.
“Data-enabled modeling of wildfire smoke transport”

Competitors

Sierra Haile — Biology, M.S.
“The Impact of Inflammation on DNA Repair in Breast Cancer”

Tanzila Hanif — Geosciences, Ph.D.
“Free Carbon Sequestration: Are Dryland Soils a Solution to Climate Change?”

Calvin Jones — Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D.
“Nanomechanically Tunable Biomaterials for Directed Musculoskeletal Tissue Differentiation”

Aman KC — Geophysics, Ph.D.
“Meltwater Mysteries: How Icebergs Shape Fjords and Oceans”

Kimberly Novoa — Executive Educational Leadership, Ed.S.
“Equitable Math Placement for Students New to the Country”

Molly Paul — Geosciences, Ph.D.
“In-situ Depth Profiling of Zircon from a Roberts Victor Eclogite Xenolith Reveals a 3-Billion-Year History of Metasomatism in the Kaapvaal Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle”

Gianluca Peri — Biomolecular Sciences, Ph.D.
“The missing link to the RNA World: how a novel self-constructing RNA enzyme can shed light on the Origin of Life”

Maria Pou — Biomolecular Sciences, Ph.D.
“Decoding Breast Cancer Metastasis: The Role of Inflammation in Disease Progression”