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Nine students advance to 2026 3MT finals

Nine Cornell research degree students will be advancing to the final round of the competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 23 students in the preliminary round. The students and their fields are: 

  • Subash Bhandari, biomedical engineering
  • Neti Bhatt, physics
  • Aminat Ibrahim, biomedical engineering
  • Abbey Kalay, biomedical and biological sciences
  • Katherine Koebel, biomedical and biological sciences
  • Delia Tota, microbiology
  • Jonathan Segal, information science
  • Pia Spychalla, plant breeding and genetics
  • Ellen van Wijngaarden, mechanical engineering

The will be held live at 251 Malott Hall on Wednesday, March 18 at 3 p.m., and all Cornell community members are invited to attend. A Zoom option will be available for audience members unable to attend in person.

A panel of judges with connections to the Cornell community will evaluate students on how well they presented a compelling story on their thesis or dissertation and its significance in just three minutes in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience with the aid of only one, static slide, and audience members will vote to select the People’s Choice Award winner.

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