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>> I told of the 6th annual 3 minute thesis or 3 mt competition I'm Jeff Garbers from Georgia Tech's Venture Lab where we work with Georgia Tech students faculty and staff help them build startups based on their research and for the 6th year I'm delighted to serve as your astro ceremonies this afternoon the covered 1000 pandemic has an impact in every facet of campus operations in the 3 m. team a petition is no exception Well this year's competition has been conducted virtually and culminates in today's 3 mt finals presentations from our students will be as compelling as ever you're going to learn a lot this event is being broadcast in a blue jeans events or presenters will be able to take questions directly from attendees if you have any questions or comments Broadbent moderators please leave those in the q. and a or chat area or there will be a combination of presentations from speakers information shared on slides and streaming video you can adjust your display settings to make the slides or presenters smaller or larger by using the scroll bar at the bottom of your screen saying this is the not the 1st time you've been doing things like that over the past year.

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But as a final day of grad student appreciation week here at Tech graduate students have enjoyed in person and virtual events this week including a coded safe brunch virtual trivia alumni panel and of course today's 3 empty finals graduate students are an indispensable part of our community and we're deeply appreciative of all their contributions now I'd like to turn things over to Dr Bonnie Farai Bice provost for graduate education and faculty development but welcome everyone to today's competition.

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First off I want to thank you for joining our 1st ever virtual 3 minute these this final round of competition a targeted drug delivery for the brain to crack in the case of sustainable over fertilizers this year's Ranchi finalists are doing research on these and other topics that could one day influence policy and change the way we live our lives today one master student and 10 ph d. candidates will be challenged to talk about the research in 3 minutes in a way that anyone can understand isn't just one Power Point slide basically they're creating an elevator pitch about the research for a general audience in today's world we know that this skill is essential for success when communicating with employers past immerse partners and investors in the broader world with science and technology at the heart of many of the challenges that we face it's vital for the students to be able to convey their world their work to voters policymakers leaders and even the children well when they continue their work to sit back and enjoy the presentations and don't forget to place your vote for the People's Choice Award at the end now I turn things back over to Jeff to share more of the logistics of today's competition the 3 minute thesis began in 2008 as a skills development activity at the University of Queensland in Australia since then it has grown into an international competition adopted by more than 200 universities worldwide.

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Current real currently enrolled master's thesis and doctoral students who are actively engaged in research are eligible to compete graduates of Tac and previous winners of the competition are not eligible the competitive candidate should have a well conceived research project elling data collected in the novel story to share that this isn't just a contest the students will hear from today have developed skills and invested significant time into distilling their research to 3 minutes or less it's also an opportunity for you at home to get a glimpse of what it's like to be a graduate student at Tech inducting research rules of the 3 mt competition are fairly simple each contestant has the minutes to present their research using one static slide animations and transitions are not allowed presentations must be spoken word no songs dance or poems although I would totally watch songs dance and poems about the research projects there can be no additional props or electronic media if a student exceeds a 3 minute maximum they are automatically disqualified and I can't tell you how relieved I was to learn that these rules do not apply to the mc.

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Knights top ph d. presenter who will not only won the $2000.00 travel grant they will also be invited to represent Georgia Tech at various regional 3 competitions in the coming year or Ph the runner up will receive a $1500.00 travel grant and 3rd place receives a $1000.00 travel grant our Masters winner will also receive a $1000.00 travel Graham finally at the People's Choice Award as voted on by everyone watching today will receive a $500.00 travel grant as we get into the presentations watch carefully and decide who will get your vote for the People's Choice Award our judges evaluate the contestants in 2 categories engagement and communications and comprehension in content each category is equally weighted.

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Within the area of engagement in communications judges must assess if the presenter can fade enthused and they'd enthusiasm for their research center was able to capture and maintain the audience's attention and of the presenter left the audience wanting to know more and within the category of comprehension and content judges must assess if the presenter clearly outlined the nature and goals of the research the presenter was careful to simplify but not trivialize their work and if they conveyed the significance of their research without relying on scientific jargon now I'd like to introduce our esteemed judges for today's 3 mc finals Ashley Bush is the director of communications in employee engagement at South wire one of North America's leading manufacturers of wire and cable Ashley began her career at South wire in 2010 has held variety of responsibilities over the last decade including visual production ran management strategic planning prices communications and media relations in her current role she leads south wires corporate communications team Ashley is a native of Carrollton Georgia and a graduate of the University of West Georgia Duffy Dixon is a multiple Emmy award winning communications and media specialist and owner of the Dixon media drawing from her 27 years in television news she shares her expertise with corporate executives government officials individuals and nonprofits the few provides her clients with valuable and unique tools through media training public speaking coaching and presentation and interviewing practice sessions the 15 produces writes and edits video content for businesses and nonprofits focusing on storytelling across multiple platforms but she is a podcast host a business radio x. and a frequently sought after speaker mc and moderator she also volunteers a queen at County schools in the granite County Public Library.

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Charles Edwards leads a coaching practice at Jackson Spalding in the team prepare executives and subject matter experts for media interviews beaches and presentations He also advises clients on effective ways to communicate in person with their internal and external audiences before joining Jackson's altering Charles was in the lead a bass journalist for 14 years he produced and wrote news stories for n.p.r. the n.p.r. member stations and c.n.n. international Dean Sheehan currently serves as the president of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association a role he assumed in July of 2019 in this position he works alongside the association staff board of trustees members and alumni volunteers to promote and serve all alumni and the institute prior to his current role she and served as vice president of government and community relations at Tech beginning in 2014 the primary representative of the Institute for government officials and native Georgian she and holds a Bachelor of Science and management from Georgia Tech and a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University Brian Yellen Aussie is a marketing and communications professional with over 10 years experience across educational and technology industries a graduate of Florida State University with a degree in applied economics Ryan previously worked in brand marketing for then start up leading nationwide multi-channel marketing campaigns currently Brian as an integral member of the global communications department at virtualization software giant v.m. Ware where he leads the channel strategy for news and thought leadership content then now for the competition each competitor will have 3 minutes to complete their talk beginning as soon as they start speaking or moving we encourage you to hold the time the speakers to make sure they do not exceed the 3 minute limit represent or exceed 3 minutes they will be disqualified to please sit back relax and enjoy these presentations.

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Our 1st presenter is charge of a good from the school of material science and engineering advised by Dr Christopher. To be speaking on the ultra vision and Tom manipulation technology inspired super powers for study in cracks in 1809 American Airlines decided remover single a from their in-flight means their bodily ended up saving 50 $1000.00 in fuel costs alone just to get a waiter duction if a few of us can pull that off Imagine if we could dig the entire skin of every single aircraft in the word and make them thinner what keeps us from doing that today is our inability to understand how cracks grow once materials get really then it turns out these cracks have this uncanny ability or fearing the invisibility cloak and hiding behind prior definitions if you look at the image here left to cracks a growing from slits in a metaphor it is in fairly far apart from each other and relatively harmless but this is exactly where they're deceptive because we don't really know what's going on in between them and this is the question that might be researched with a little help from technology into answers so how do we do this well how do you find a super villain that it's in plain say use Martin the super hero inspired abilities to track them.

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I have any late Superman's ultra vision I did in high resolution images that captured tiny details as the material has been the form it turns out our regular cell phone cameras are perfectly capable of capturing these details these days and then run these images to an in-house tracking algorithm that allows me to look at specific intervals of bang as far as definitions are concerned I think Dr straight I also like to think of this as being a crack detective who's looking for a needle in a haystack but then has the ability to turn the knob of time and remove the hit well this allows me to do is generally these maps that give us detail that we did not have earlier if you look at the image here right not only were the cracks farther along but they were actually interacting with each other so now we know what they're doing we can engineer them and control them and push the bounds of how thin we can go so what does this get us or why should anyone care well coming back to the earlier example of just a one percent reduction in their craft we could see in the u.s. airlines $1200000000.00 a year but then think beyond that everything around us cars aircraft electronics construction if you could take all those materials and make them thinner without compromising safety or performance imagine the level of good but then perhaps more importantly and from personal perspective this research has allowed me to contribute would I get all fundamental problem without the need of expensive equipment This also means that I can continue working on this problem from anywhere in the word and this wider accessibility of this research also means that many others from around the Earth can join us in this endeavor to expand the bounds of this knowledge thanks.

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Our next presenter is hold your lead from the school of mechanical engineering advised by Dr Cross to solve and they'll be presenting minimally invasive targeted drug delivery in the brain enhanced by closed loop focused alter sound control nearly $80000.00 brain tumors or they've nosed in the u.s. each year in the process of the 32 percent of them are considered cancerous one of the conventional approaches to deliver therapeutic agents in the brain is to physically insert a quarter sized device called on my reserve or on their scalp but then the obvious downside of this method is that it is invasive to address this limitation researchers have developed non invasive drug delivery service for example one of them is by combining focus alter sound and my probables But here you might be wondering Bahai's that actually a drug delivery surgery in high school biology class you might have heard of blood brain barrier or b.b. blood brain barrier is a specialized neurovascular it has evolved to keep their brains safe but ironically this barrier also limits the drugs penetration into the brain so to give you a sneak peek this is not and they said technology is all about trying to open that so-called barrier for better drug deliveries and the brain to do that we need to use something called micro bubbles which are literally migrant sized bubbles that are injected in your body that he made those problems oscillate by focusing low intensity ultrasound on them and was so excited those bubbles when they flow in the brain basically the mechanical effects of the microbus oscillation Why does the junction of the blood brain barrier and this gives the drug more space to pass through and we call this whole process the opening but here's the thing even if we know that we can disrupt the blood brain barrier using focus on just sound and my troubles the Ephesians the and safety for this promising method still is concerned because if we extend the locals too weak to be opening might not occur on the other hand if we excite the vocals to strong the bubbles may collapse and trust me this can possibly damage the brain tissue.

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So the scope of my study was to control something called acoustic and mission which are and it from my troubles and establish a closed loop control method to maximize the efficiency and minimize the risk of tissue damage while performing this existing b.b. opening strategy so the results after some experiments on rodents are controller other than have high accuracy of 98.2 percent relative to the target acoustic initial And furthermore higher target acoustic and national level resulted in higher b.b. probability and lower target because the commissionable resulted in Lord b.b.b. probability this suggests that our methodology is not only capital of modulating the level of drug delivery and the brain but also makes this minimally invasive drug delivery sort of completely controllable so after some more proof of concept experiments we aim to scale our system into clinical levels to fight against range of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and brain cancers our next presenter is one mostly from the school of Materials Science and Engineering advised by Dr Natalie Stingo and they'll be presenting plastics that can conduct electricity how can the impact or life.

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No matter how much you must experiment come get Batey usually the ones are trapped Cyrus's figure out how much ingredients you add and what's up Trista baby. Instead you really hope to have some rule of your trash that fast is a serious matter since it's just you know the procedure of producing you 6 I didn't computers and you saw our consumer behavior in this or else we will it Alison is national Are you mad this is a local computer predicts that us all and to predict the Protestants are spared the best so some conductance assets are really fascinating and promising you're just a little mysterious all humans have those Sky last you know so that classics and devices can copy the moral and.

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Thank you or next presenter is Megan mixed with me from the school of chemical and Biomolecular Engineering advised by Dr Marks those in skiing they'll be presenting apt to trigger a novel biosensor platform for point of care diagnostics When's the last. If I asked you a year ago you might not have known the answer but recently I'm not sick testing has become a routine in a lot of our lives now I don't know about you but when I see any of those long socially distance lines at the testing center I find myself wishing that I could take the same tests at full and get a result in a few hours instead of a couple days well even before the pandemic I've been in the last figuring out how we could engineer diagnostics that are cheaper to me in easier to use and I'm using synthetic biology to do it in isn't that biology scientists gather suddenly parts and your organisms and link them together to build new technologies but this can limit the scope of potential of design thinking that like trying to build a new puzzles that from a bunch of random puzzle pieces you can see if you don't get there but eventually you know you very rarely have pieces or a discovery that you don't have the exact p.c. need to fill that one specific gap my thesis seems to remove this limitation after trigger is a not lessons or platform that allows scientists to design custom parts and use them to build various answers using machinery that we could design and create to fill our needs significantly broadens the library kills ever able to make sense explore how did you ever use as a d.n.a. afterward to detect its targets absent as our strands of d.n.a. sequences question needs eyes to a certain molecule.

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Actors are great but they are ideal for a point of care diagnostics because it can easily produce a visual signal like a color change when they detect their target so our idea is to design a 2nd straight of d.n.a. work with the x. Ray to produce this color change this trend is the trigger in its customer needs to be exact after a sequence that labor has no target not just President trigger to be found to be after and nothing happens but as soon as the after detectives try to get the admiral quickly I'm to that target and kick off the trigger in the process our design phase here you have for this year and he will get to induce the color change when it gets kicked off the after this color change to be easily interpreted **** without any expensive Latin put we have lots of results telling us that this is why works and does need to be publicized so simply swap out the accurate trigger and I have a brand new sensor for a from please me different molecule in the past and what we've all seen just how important it is so develop simple in rapid testing that's acceptable for everyone we believe that active share can catalyze is much needed change in the current state of disease diagnostics thank you for next presenter this Mohamed has he is sending from the school of biomedical engineering advised by Dr Bachmann and Dr Robert Gross they'll be presenting personalized deep brain stimulation a window of hope for depression is.

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No nervy something to call it while others these are the signs of the prison that can be summarized in normal lives. Inclusion is one of the leading causes of the civil in United States and always meant mainly all extraneous media organizations order each other unfortunately for them when I do not respond to the antidepressant medication the line of time risk of suicide and on the east patients is nearly 20 percent and we know really why we start mass the answer is yes the brain stimulation or maybe as an ascending progresses you're immediately inclined let alone the suddenly call any of the great and gentle electrical current those it is up from a lot about the nation completing the question in recent years by across our studies Xuxa state of the a.b.s. wrongfully question is still less than 30 percent why the stack behind undersized this low success rate is due to the subject valuable in the areas there are many prime target Disney elation frequency is stimulation omlet in a simulation our weight then be fine on 3 that edge e.d.s. parameter is likely not that good around continuing your radio when one he sent your favorite channel Well you had power money well now it's almost equally b.s. printers and finding the best 2nd E.B.'s printers is light searching for a needle nice part of your you are only a crime in the lonely haystack is a Big Mac. In mine is the I and the longing that each man met in the form Arsenal lives it is as well I seriously customized illyria's friend interest for any.

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Or next present or is Andrew tricker from the school of chemical engineering advised by Dr Carson savers will be presenting cracking the case of sustainable fertilizers be a time only just of the 1st tell us what happens when the police 100. 1.6 illegal and growing exponentially at the same time.

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The. Treating that year I don't actually. Doubt it. But we are facing an emerging crisis is that your doubting that batting average treatment are all the. Rate the c.d.c. estimates that in the us alone in a. $5000000000.00 loss each year for direct health care costs. Worldwide over $700000.00 deaths each year in tribute it is Europe resistant infections and this number is predicted tries to $10000000.00 deaths per year by 2050.

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How are bacteria doing this. One way that bacteria increase their resistance and while experience Haitians in their genetic code or d.n.a. my dissertation to investigate the genetic mechanisms for systems and lung infections of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa individual specific fibrosis or. C.f. is a genetic disorder characterised by persistent lung infection and inflammation Haarlem function and decreased I've spent and shooting pseudomonas infection in the c.f. long distance call as it is offers distant multiple pastas antibiotic in order to develop better therapeutic treatments to tackle short resistant bacteria out we 1st require more understanding of how our systems develops but purposeful sure as there limit it to setting one factual simple genetic mutation at a time so we need improvement that screening back to the all genomes in the race to the resistance to that and I am proposing to conduct a genome wide association study Orci loss which is a novel approach that can quickly screen thousands of bacterial samples across their entire genome to find correlations between a tree and this case increasers assistance to antibiotics the genetic mutations that may be responsible for that tree this drastically increases the efficiency with which economic bacterial genome Sprouter mation my research so it's preliminary stages but what's really exciting about this study is that this methodology can mean apply to other bacterial infection systems to identify genetic markers for any number of traits relevant to action not just an erratic resistant.

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My hope is that my work will lay the foundation for more effective therapy treatments that improve the lives of individuals with cystic fibrosis and also to send my methodology to other terrorists and actions towards the overarching goal of looking at global crisis in a panic since beginning our next presenter is young he from the school of chemical and Biomolecular Engineering advised by Dr Ryan lively will be presenting understanding in controlling Co transport of water in organic solvents in micro porous carbon molecular membranes water is one of the essential substances that are globally 19 percent of total water usage if used for industrial purposes however during the past decades is that this is a felony crease in the start of industrial waste water to wetlands rivers of coastal areas this industrial waste water discharge the effects of their daily life at worst and the water and ground pollution a lead to serious life concert for the ecosystem there for the treatment of industrial waste water is important here vacation of industrial waste water and both separation of water from organic could have been and today the most commonly used separation purpose is driven by thermal energy which is highly energy consuming and expensive Meanwhile the power of the wastewater treatment is pre-fight water which is not a high cost material there are 4 other members separation which is more energy and cost efficient operation is an attractive alternative for waste water treatment.

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The challenge industrial waste water purification using member a separation is to sort out the small size dissolve Ok compare minutes from the waste water. Yes to their small sizes and dissolving characteristics they're difficult to separate and become a major pollution problem gets soil and ground water. Fine membranes but very small porous can solve this challenge to sort out the spall size dissolved and the contents from waste water therefore it might be says project aims to tackle the industrial waste water treatment challenge by studying the fundamentals of how the water and they're getting stuck and Pemex shares separate and micro porous membranes the study of how molecules travel 3 in my computer system which is also called transport it's critical and then raise operation has thing up various types of memory systems that are unique for each separation it's time and resource consuming suppose we understand how much the components travel through the membrane in that case we can predict the performance of separation and officially design the separation of system so far transport fundamental studies has been done for aspects shapes and I'm excited to study how it could mixtures transported through my course membranes if specially where the liquid mixture is like water and again Excel and have very distinct characteristics Moreover the study of transport in a range of course sizes with possible by using carbon molecular see if my brain is a choice that every material because it's my quest for states can be controlled with precision I'm hopeful that Mike is this will work as a foundation for the Study of member a separation and provide insights into complex waste water purification thank you l. our next presenter is Muhammad.

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From the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering advised by Dr Miriam white now or and Dr Douglas blow they'll be speaking on mitigating beam alignment errors in millimeter wave communications to go beyond 5 g.. 7 owns and you gather out revolutionize the way he can hear it on the 80 and that's if generation by selling.

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More over the side of more than 2 and a half hours each day using all that and then now that is a huge amount of thanks. Just great if I have it and Gar fosters this is exactly what I find with our cell phones marvel over Jerry if I should buy consternation electrical signals on different feet Bessie's by the frequencies that you studio people who as you systems they have already utilized their mass a number of actions So what can be you saw a problem how can if you need.

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It's a laugh that a number of the cons though such a language as I remembered it are. A lemon if them but you can certainly refused my research focuses on modeling lies and the effects of such a number and devising strategies to made it. By using our lighting That's Max I am one of the locations on the side of Austin and the cellphone towers as a random process going by it's going through their simulation is this that I did and that gives a whole lot of big shock in their advice adverse effects are different audiences are exposed to these statistics and as recommendations of the service providers good at their finances and safety said point out I was indifferent and wax that even if this research is not limited Sen.

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F. that the future Danish post and sustain are the lot of us and even drawings and also benefits on my research claiming I stated. By doing this research I need Sure there are things you buy. In the future U.T.C.'s like any. Thank you. Our final presenter is clearer Glassman from the medical physics program advised by Dr Lisa Krishnamurthy and Dr c.k. Wong will be speaking on creating the Google Maps of brain behavior relationships a new look at post stroke M.R.I.'s razor and if you use a paper travel map to advocate your own city.

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Try to spend post rather behavioral deficits using it to one way that m.r.i. a common m.r.i. procedure is exactly that it can show you where really is but that's about it in fact neuroscientists to look at this image to see the dark area that represents That leaves and think well corresponding functionality must be lost forever since the tissue dad doesn't accurately describe the data of actual patients so what's going on but we have to remember that the brain isn't just a structural landmark but a series of functional networks that are constantly communicating and it turns out how that not all damage is created equal some lesion tissue is really dead but other parts and might still be pretty easy enough blood to function and with a novel imaging modality entitled Tiger we can actually numerically label this damage on a scale of 0 to $10.00 being healthy to feel one being completely dead now this is an upgrade from our paper maps to Map Quest Ok so it's an improvement and we have a much better idea of what's going on inside of our lesion but how do we make sense of the numerical values Well it turns out we need a physiological parameter editor at c.b.s. or cerebral blood flow the structural information is like only having information about the streets but c.b.s. gives us our traffic information like which seats are Ok with those lane closures and where the streets are completely blocked it shows us how much light is actually being perfuse into the brain tissue or not the preview but information about trialling it means nothing on its own just.

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Information about the streets can only get you so far so we decided to combine this information and our hypothesis is that as structural damage increases c.b.s. decreases and it turns out we were right the c.b.s. within the Legion tissue is nearly half that of the healthy tissue brother as tigers increase representing increase in damage to the c.b.s. significantly decrease so why do we care about combining all this information so affects patients extremely differently so rehabilitation must also be individualized and currently we can only create brain behavioral not using structural information which is fine but it's not always accurate and there can be a lot of like Essentially it's like using an avocation app but only if it sometimes predicts traffic correctly and occasionally gets you to the right destination in other words Apple that it's still writing crucial information and we hope that by adding c.f. we can more accurately and holistically create brain behavior on the job rather predict poster behavior deficit like on and ultimately to better the Lateesha tart and other words we hope to create the Google Maps of navigating the brain Post thank you also have a virtual wild applause for our finalists.

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Thank you I told you where they are learn a lot these presentations always I feel like I'm watching trailers for the future when I see these now it's time to begin the people's choice of voting will give you about 5 minutes to vote while we hear from some other members of the Georgia Tech community that will talk about the importance of research and scholarly communications.

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First up is Dr Charlie dollar Georgia Tech's executive vice president for research Greetings from Georgia Tech I am sure we have the executive vice president for research and I am peace to welcome you to the 3 minute basis competition research conducted at universities is vital to solving complex problems and improving the human condition.

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Driving research enterprise with expenditures of approximately $1000000000.00 annually is tackling a broad range of critical challenges and graduate students are central to the institutes and social mission from engineering a better way to rebuild the ball inside the body to helping farmers detect crop diseases to developing innovative plastics that conduct electricity graduate students engage in exciting and innovative projects that will make life better for people today and for generations to come what's almost as important as conducting this research is communicating about it and that's why the 3 minute thesis competition is so valuable being able to share research in a way that everyone can understand from a user to a policymaker to an auditorium full of experts is a skill that would serve our students throughout their careers as you may know a key component of George at that strategic plan is to champion innovation we want to develop a global reputation for a new kind of innovation where participants of all backgrounds can find opportunities to succeed and make a difference to develop the global reputation the ward needs to know what we're doing at the institute so that to all of the competitors thank you for your participation and to the finalists best of luck thank you Dr Abdullah Md I would like to introduce Dr Leslie sharp dean of the library thank you for joining us today and the Georgia Tech library are today's events.

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I am Leslie sharp Dana libraries here in Georgia Tech and we are streaming from the scholars of event the editor and the price Gilbert library of the Georgia Tech library is located in the physical and scholarly heart of campus and we support student research for pipe providing a wide array of virtual spaces as well as physical spaces for our students and faculty as you vote for the people stroy award I'd like to highlight 2 spaces in the library that specifically support our graduate student community Georgia Tech graduate students have their own space in the 6th floor of Crosland tower this space is Buzz cart accessible only to graduate students and it contains.

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Collaboration rooms as well as a kitchen as well as docking stations and it is why it the other space is our brand new dissertation defense room located on the 4th floor of price Gilbert library it is a space where our ph d. candidate can host defend stream and record their dissertation defenses as a part of the service all students who record their dissertation are able to able and encourage to uploaded into smart tech the libraries digital repository or long term accessibility and preservation the Georgia Tech library is here to provide the resources necessary to help our community do their work we celebrate collaboration and champion and evasion Congratulations to our finalist and good luck or winning Thank you.

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Thank you Dr Sharp we're almost ready to announce our winner so get those votes for the People's Choice Award in now finally I'd like to introduce Dr James black assistant director of strategic initiatives and grad life in the office of graduate studies. Good afternoon everyone thank you for joining us virtually today for the 3 mt finals I've had the pleasure of leading our planning efforts for this year's competition that you heard from 11 graduate students but there are thousands more doing incredible work day in and day out to drive the research engineer of the institute as we conclude Gradstein Appreciation Week here attack how to say one last time how much all of our graduate students contributions are valued and appreciated that feeling of appreciation is why so many members of our community continue to step up to assist in planning and delivering this competition I want to take a moment to thank them now 1st we've relied on partnerships with several campus offices including the office of the vice provost for graduate education faculty development our center for teaching and learning the nagual communication center the Language Institute of course the library and institute communications we also have a core planning committee that has been meeting consistently since last fall to deliver a completely redesigned competition in a virtual format the following individuals have been instrumental to the success of this competition Jeff Howard and Kendra Slayton from the novel communication center parents soccer and root show also are from the language institute Nazneen torque and Marla burner from the office of graduate studies David Lawrence from the Center for teaching and learning Emilia Pavlik from graduate education and faculty development and finally my right hand person from the office of graduate studies that has done a great deal of behind the scenes work throughout the entire 3 n.c. planning process Tatyana Richardson thank you all very much.

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Also special thanks to our irreplaceable master of ceremonies Jeff Gardere it's great having you back again this year on the show seems like every year we get better and better thank you all to all the judges from both the preliminary round of competition we had about $36.00 submissions for the competition to the finals judges that you were introduced to today we couldn't do without you and of course thanks to the entire team from the library that has helped us broadcast this live virtual event today thank you all for your hard work and dedication to the success and development of our graduate students been an absolute pleasure seeing this competition come together given the challenges of the last year.

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They could Dr Black now for our last order of business the people's choice voting has concluded that it's time to announce our winners our masters division winner and recipient of a $1000.00 travel grant is clear a Glassman from the medical physics program with a 3 minute these says titled reading the Google Maps of brain behavior relationships new look at post stroke M.R.I.'s or the ph d. division our 3rd place winner taking home a one $1000.00 travel grant is making mix wienie from chemical and by molecular engineering with a 3 minute thesis titled that to trigger a novel by a sensor platform or point of care diagnostics the h.d. division runner up taking home a $1500.00 travel grant as well Hammad sawed off from Electrical and Computer Engineering with his 3 minute thesis titled mitigating beam alignment errors in millimeter wave communications to go beyond g. And the winner of the $22013.00 mt competition taking home a $2000.00 travel grant representing George attack at regional 3 empty competitions is.

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Of aid from material science and engineering with his 3 minute thesis titled ultra vision and time manipulation acknowledging inspired superpowers for studying cracks graduations to all our winners. Our last prize to announce is our people's choice award everyone that presented today is eligible for this award as voted by all of you at home your votes are in and the winner of the $500.00 travel grant for the People's Choice is Megan McSweeney from chemical and buy a mic like hill or engineering with a 3 minute thesis titled app to trigger a novel by a sensor platform point of care diagnostics regulations to all the winners are all of our award winners the office of graduate studies will be in contact with you soon about accessing your travel funding and with that we've concluded this year's 3 mt competition thank you to everyone that has helped to shore appreciation the text graduate students by tuning in virtually and participating in the People's Choice live voting hopefully see you all in person next year for the 20223 mc competition and sold out and go jackets.