{"id":43555,"date":"2017-02-14T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43555"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:54:22","slug":"grad-students-take-on-three-minute-thesis-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/grad-students-take-on-three-minute-thesis-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad students take on Three Minute Thesis challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The clock will be ticking as graduate students step before the judges to explain their research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The preliminary round of Brock University\u2019s fifth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition takes place Thursday, Feb. 16 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Pond Inlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winners will advance to the Brock finals on Thursday, March 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The annual competition gives graduate students three minutes each to explain their research in a way that captivates judges and others from outside their discipline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 3MT competition was initially introduced by the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2008 as a means to tell research stories in a new way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock\u2019s challenge winner and runner-up are awarded $500 and $250, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clock will be ticking as graduate students step before the judges to explain their research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43556,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions\/43556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}