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2025 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
Omair Faqah	Shrinking the Lab: HIV Testing Anytime, Anywhere	Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	FAU 2025 3MT® Winner	VIEW
Jamie Knaub	Scanning the Seas: Micro-CT Analysis of Cetacean Vertebral Bone	Marianne Porter, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	FAU 2025 3MT® Runner-Up	VIEW
Ray Pressman	Begging the Question: Born Loud, Stay Loud?	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	FAU 2025 3MT® Second Runner-Up	VIEW
Kayla Ahlness	When Two Become One: Investigating the Behavior of Hybrid African Monkeys	Kate Detwiler, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	FAU 2025 3MT® People's Choice	VIEW
August Stone	Reconstructing Perinatal Mortality in the Past: A Bioarchaeological Case Study from 17th Century Transylvania	Meredith Ellis, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters	Heat 2 Second Runner-Up	VIEW
Dennis Asante-Sackey	The Emerging Menaces in Landfills Management: Black Goo and PFAS	Yalan Liu, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 Second Runner-Up	VIEW
Jacob Kahn	Arachna Networks : Resilient Universal Mesh Networking	Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 2 Runner-Up	VIEW
Jordan Thompson	The Semi-Rational Actor Paradigm: Cultural Worldviews Count, too, in Decisions About Natural Disasters	Geoffrey Wetherell, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 Second Runner-Up	VIEW
Laura Rojas	Developing Materials for Direct Carbon Dioxide Capture from Ambient Air	Masoud Jahandar Lashaki, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 Winner	VIEW
Olivia Faris	Bleached and Battling: The Coral Crisis Beneath the Surface	Joshua Voss, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Winner	VIEW
Riane Santa Cruz De Melo	Saving Grace: A Proposal for Parent Training for Families of Children with Autism Under the Age of 36 Months	Brianna Miller, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 3 Runner-Up and People's Choice	VIEW
Samantha White	The Co-Responder Model of Policing: A Scoping Review	Gabriel Cesar, Ph.D.	College of Social Work and Criminal Justice	Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice	VIEW

2024 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
KAYLA AHLNESS	"Why You Buggin' Out: Does Seasonality Drive Insectivory in a Mixed-Species Group of African Monkeys?"	Dr. Kate Detwiler	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	FAU 2024 3MT® Winner	VIEW
GISELLE SHIM	"Evidence of Canals and Network Potential for Amyloid Beta Drainage out of the Brain"	Dr. Rui Tao	Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	FAU 2024 3MT® Runner Up	VIEW
JORDAN THOMPSON	"Why Memes Are Serious Business: The Relationship Between Political Polarization and Meme Effectiveness"	Geoffrey Wetherell	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	FAU 2024 3MT® Second Runner-Up & People’s Choice Winner	VIEW
AARON ORIN	"Synesthesia: Does Seeing Music in Color Hold the Key to Artistic Genius?"	Stacie Rossow	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 Winner & People's Choice	VIEW
BRANDYN NUTTER	"Investigating the Adsoprtion Performance and Stability Attributes of Amine-Impregnated Silica Materials for Biogas Purification"	Dr. Masoud Jahandar Lashaki	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 1 Runner-Up & People's Choice Winner	VIEW
CORALINE KANDASSAMY	"Rap Antillais: Oraliture, Identity, and Resistance"	Andres Espinoza	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 5 Runner-Up	VIEW
DAVID KAUFMAN	"Is there a Correlation between Radiation Exposure from Mammography and Breast Cancer? A Retrospective Analysis of Currently Available Data"	Dr. Ron Carlton, PhD.	College of Business	Heat 4 Runner-Up	VIEW
ELOISE FINDLAY	"Beyond Survival: A Primer for how to Survive in Graduate School with Mentorship, Essential Resources, and Practical Techniques "	Angela Rhone	College of Education	Heat 4 Winner & People’s Choice	VIEW
FANGMING QU	"Vision System Using Machine Learning to Analyze Inside Autonomous Vehicles Cabin"	Mehrdad Nojoumian	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 1 Second Runner Up	VIEW
HAMID AKBARIAN	"Space is Your New Limit, Not the Sky"	Dr. Imad Mahgoub	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 4 Second Runner- Up
HEATHER WOLVERTON	"Ba-Ba-Bachman’s: Documenting Song Development in the Bachman’s Sparrow "	Dr. Rindy Anderson	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 Second Runner- Up	VIEW
HENRY GERBER	"Healthcare Without Borders: The Potential of Telehealth in Rural Populations "	Daniel Wang	College of Business	Heat 1 Winner	VIEW
LEANDRO ARISTEGUIETA	"Forging the Alliance for Progress: Venezuela, the United States, and the Bounty of Oil (1957-1963)"	Dr. Eyal Weinberg	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 2 Second Runner-Up	VIEW
OLADIRAN OLADOKUN	"Multiphysics Simulation of a Dep-Based Microfluidic Design for Malaria Diagnosis"	Dr. Sarah Du	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 2 Runner-Up	VIEW
PEDRO DA COSTA	"Flavonoids from Fruits and Vegetables to Potential Cancer Treatment "	Yunqing Kang	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 2 Winner & People’s Choice	VIEW

2023 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
EMMANUAL MCNEELY	"'What Does A Surgeon Look Like?': How Stereotypes May Negatively Impact Recruitment Into the Least Diverse Specialty in Medicine"	Jennifer Caceres, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up & Heat 4 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
DIANA FEDDERMAN	"A Critical Content Analysis of Fountas and Pinnell’s LLI System"	Michelle Vaughan, Ed.D.	College of Education	Heeat 3 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
ROBIN JIMENEZ-BEAN	"Perceptions of Posttraumatic Growth Among Adults with Lived Experience in Foster Care"	Morgan Cooley, Ph.D.	College of Social Work and Criminal Justice	Heat 3 2^nd Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
MATTHEW PATTERSON	"A Picture of Resiliency: Students Attending College While Homeless"	Danielle Groton, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
MEGHAN HANLEY	"Feeling Flow and Expressing Emotions while Improvising: Music Therapy and Music Professor Perspectives"	Marc Decker, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 1 Winner	VIEW
MARJORIE PATTERSON	"The Influence of Nature, Poetry, and Contemporary Techniques in the Music of John Burge"	Marc Decker, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
MEGAN SPRING	"American Possession: Ghostlore in Toni Morrison's Beloved"	Regis Fox, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 2^nd Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
INGRID SANTILLAN BARRAGAN	"Corrosion is in the air"	Francisco Presuel-Moreno, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT^® Championship Endowment Award (tie) & Heat 2 Runner-Up	VIEW
DOMINIC GOLD	"Homomorphic Encryption Will Save the World (And Your Privacy)"	Francis Motta, Ph.D	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 2 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
AMISH MISHRA	"So, you wanna build a protein?"	Francis Motta, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Runner-Up and People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 4 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
MORGAN SLEVIN	"What's up your gut? Solving mysteries of the avian gut microbiome"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 Runner-Up	VIEW
KAYLA O'BRIEN	"Microplastics in Mangrove and Beach Sediments on Southeast Florida Barrier Islands"	Tiffany Robert Briggs, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Runner-Up (tie) & People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
MARGARET RODRIGUE	"Ichthyoplankton Recruitment within Mangrove-dominated Mosquito Control Impoundments"	Dennis Hanisak, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
ABIGAIL BLACKBURN	"Bioluminescence of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi"	Michael Twardowski, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
HAYLEY KNAPP	"From Poop to Parent: Examining Paternity in Dynamic Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Populations in the Bahamas"	John Baldwin, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT^® Championship Endowment Award (tie) & Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
DAWN RAJA SOMU	"With Every Fiber: Characterizing Biomineral Ultrastructure and Nanomechanical Properties of Shark Vertebrae"	Vivian Merk, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 5 Winner	VIEW
IVANA SERRA	"Turtle life in and with a boney shield—where biomechanics meets behavior"	Jeannette Wyneken, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 5 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
HANS GONZEMBACH	"Disentangling relationships between ornamentation and non-primary vocalizations in near-threatened songbird (Peucaea aestivalis)"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 5 Runner-Up

2022 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
AMISH MISHRA	"Seeing Data: For now we see dimly, but soon we will see shape to shape"	Francis Motta, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Runner-Up & Heat 2 Winner	VIEW
AUBREY CLARK	"What do we "nose" about sharks: investigating olfactory morphology of elasmobranchs "	Marianne Porter, Ph.D. & Tricia Meredith, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
BRIAN ESCOBAR	"Temporal Dynamics of Positive and Negative Facial Expression Processing"	Sang Wook Hong, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
EMILY ALBRECHT	"Examining the Effect of Race on Wrongful Conviction Compensation "	Lisa M. Dario, Ph.D., Jesse Saginor, Ph.D., & Lincoln Sloas, Ph.D.	College of Social Work and Criminal Justice	Heat 1 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
HALEY DAVIS	"Hyposalinity tolerance of three southeast Florida reef-building corals"	Joshua Voss, Ph. D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up & Heat 3 Winner	VIEW
HEATHER WOLVERTON	"Sophisticated Song: Exploring the Evolution and Ontogeny of Large Repertoires and Syntax Usage in the Bachman’s Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis)"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 Runner-Up	VIEW
INGRID SANTILLAN	"Effect of Corrosion in Florida Bridges "	Francisco Presuel-Moreno, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 2 Runner-Up	VIEW
JESSICA BRYNES	"Making It Work: Exploring The Balancing Act of Moms Who Earned a Doctoral Degree "	Jennifer Bloom, Ph.D. & Jarrett Warshaw, Ph.D.	College of Education	Championship People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 1 Winner	VIEW
KONSTANCJA SZYMANSKA	"Foreign Language Anxiety among International Students in the U.S. University: A Case Study"	Jennifer Bloom, Ph.D. & Patricia Maslin-Ostrowski, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 1 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
MORGAN SLEVIN	"Treating treatment failure: How wild avian microbiomes mediate stress responses, with applications to wildlife rehabilitation"	Rindy C. Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT^® Championship Endowment Award & Heat 3 2^nd Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
PRAKASH ANKITHA ARVAN	"Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques for Building Stronger and Safer Deep Foundation Systems"	Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up & Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
RAMYA AYYALASOMAYAJULA	"Tumor-associated O-glycans of MUC1 : targets for cancer vaccine design"	Mare Cudic, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 2 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
SHANNA LILLIS	"Shifting Assessment Metrics in Public Schools for Improved Equity and Civic Engagement"	Melanie Acosta, Ph.D	College of Education	Heat 1 Runner-Up	VIEW

2021 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
LINDSEY MARLIN	"Playing a PTSD Survivor Onstage: How the Audience Can Further Understand Both Themselves and the Character in a 2-Hour Stretch of Time"	Desmond Gallant, M.F.A.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Championship People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 1 Winner	VIEW
TEODORA KAMBUROV	"What's grit got to do with it?"	Sabrina Sembiante, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 1 Runner-Up	VIEW
MAIMUNA AKTER	"Death, Destruction, and Manipulation"	Douglas Cumming, Ph.D.	College of Business	Heat 1 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
CRISTINA PIMENTA	"Religion & Politics: Lessons from American History"	Aimee Arias, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 1 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
ISHWARYA SRIKANTH	"Better by the Batch: Enhancing Drone Scheduling"	Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Science	Heat 2 Winner	VIEW
ANDREW STEINBERG	"Better by the Batch: Enhancing Drone Scheduling"	Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D. & Ionut Cardei, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Science	Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT^® Championship Endowment Award	VIEW
SANDHYA SHARMA	"Pandemic screening with a low-cost COVID 19 diagnostic chip"	Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 2 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
RAHUL DEV RAJU	"Scour monitoring using green laser"	Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 2 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
KATE SHLEPR	"The problem is global. The solution is to quantify our optimism."	Dale E. Gawlik, Ph.D & Sarah L. Milton, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 Winner	VIEW
STEVEN LOMBARDO	"Resolving habitat gaps for bonefish conservation across Florida and The Bahamas"	Matthew J. Ajemian, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 Runner-Up	VIEW
BRIANNA CAHILL	"A Comprehensive Diet Description for the Whitespotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari) in Florida Coastal Waters"	Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 2^nd Runner Up (tie)	VIEW
MORGAN SLEVIN	"Get off my lawn! Testing the impact of social stress on a territorial songbird’s health and gut microbiome"	Rindy C. Anderson, Ph.D	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 2^nd Runner Up (tie)	VIEW
IVAN HEERDEGEN	"Just Keep Swimming"	Marianne E. Porter, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
CLAUDIUS OSEI	"Embodied Cognition: How cognitive behavior is not solely a construct of the brain but involves the entire body."	Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Runner-Up & Heat 4 Winner	VIEW
ALICE WEAD	"The Mathematics of Relatedness: Healthy Social Aging"	Christine Williams, DNSc, PMHCNS-BC	Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing	Heat 4 Runner-Up	VIEW
NIRTHIECA SUTHAKARAN	"The Effects of STXBP1 in Infant Epilepsy"	Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 2^nd Runner Up (tie)	VIEW
AMISH MISHRA	"The Shape of Data: Inventing Efficient Methods for Topological Data Analysis"	Francis Motta, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 2^nd Runner Up (tie)	VIEW
SANJU KHATRI	"Can we predict sinkholes? "	Xavier Comas, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 People's Choice Award Winner

2020 Vidoes

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
AFROUZ ATAEI	"A Novel Microfluidic Sperm‐Sorting Device based on Rheotaxis Effect"	Andy W.C. Lau, Ph.D. & Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
ANDREW STEINBERG	"Game of Drones"	Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
AUBREY ELSON	"Keep Your Enemies Close: The Universal Application of Learning to Play and Think Like a Villain"	Lynn McNutt, M.F.A.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
CRISTINA PIMENTA	"Sincere, Scheming, or Sarcastic?﹣Machiavelli & The Prince"	Aimee Arias, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Championship Finalist	VIEW
DANIELLE INGLE	"What happens when vertebrae don't bear weight?"	Marianne E. Porter, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
ELENA MCLAUGHLIN	"A Neglected Skill: Investigating the Effects of "Handwriting without Tears" on Letter Formation by Young Children with Autism"	Peggy Goldstein, Ph.D. & Michael Brady, Ph.D.	College of Education	Championship Finalist	VIEW
ISHWARYA SRIKANTH	"Deterioration Modeling for Preventive Maintenance of Aging Fixed Offshore Oil & Gas Platforms"	Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
IVANA SERRA	"Toasty Turtles: Too Hot to Think?"	Sarah Milton, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
KEVIN MOXLEY	"Making the Audience Feel: Using Neural Plasticity and Somatic Sensation to Inspire Sympathetic Vibration"	Kathryn L. Johnston, M.F.A.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Championship Finalist	VIEW
KIRA XANA‐KAI NASH	"Social Media: What Does the Future Hold and How are We Using It?"	Monica Escaleras, Ph.D.	College of Business	Championship Finalist	VIEW
MD ALAMGIR KABIR	"Rapid Diagnosis of Zika Virus at Point of Care to Save Lives"	Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
MICHELLE EDWARDS	"Exposure to multiple algal toxins among juvenile bull sharks, Carcharhinus leucas, in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon"	Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Runner-Up	VIEW
MORGAN SLEVIN	"Smarts and symbiosis: how a bird's gut microbiome influences its cognitive performance"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT^® Championship Endowment Award	VIEW
OLUMIDE ADENMOSUN	"Genotypic Sperm Sorting: A less invasive “ART” to prevent Genetic Disorders in Newborns."	James Kumi‐Diaka, Ph.D. & Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
PANAGIOTA GALANAKOU	"Monitoring prompt gamma emission for reducing range uncertainties of carbon ion radiation for cancer treatments"	Wazir Muhammad, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
SARAH RABINOWITZ	"Spleen Injuries: Outcome Analysis between Transfers and Non‐Transfers"	Alexander Fokin, M.D., Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	Championship Finalist	VIEW
STEPHANIE INSALACO	"The Influence of the Kennedy Space Center on Land Use/Land Cover and Population Dynamics in Brevard County, Florida"	Zhixiao Xie, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Finalist	VIEW
SUSHMITHA SATYANARAYANA GANDUR	"Gender Equality"	Ting Levy, Ph.D.	College of Business	Championship Finalist	VIEW
TARANEH ARDALAN	"Development of Guidelines for Implementation of Freight and Transit Signal Priorities to Enhance Road Traffic Sustainability"	Evangelos Kaisar, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Championship Finalist Championship 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
TIFFANY COX	"Band Directors Don't Wear Heels: The Lived Experiences of Female High School Band Directors in Florida"	Susannah Brown, Ph.D.	College of Education	Championship People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW

2018 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
SARAH HOFFMANN	"Sharks in 3D: The Diversity of Form and Function Among Varied Environments"	Marianne Porter, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Winner and People's Choice Winner	VIEW
IAN COMBS	"Eulogy for the St. Lucie Reef"	Joshua Voss, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 7 Runner-Up	VIEW
KELLEY JACKSON	"How Much Protein is Required to Prevent Sarcopenia?"	Sareen Gropper, Ph.D. & David Newman, Ph.D.	Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing	Championship Winner & Heat 2 Winner	VIEW
FELICIA COOPER	"Risk Factors for Post-Tonsillectomy Complications in Children Under 3"		Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up & Heat 2 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
CARALIN BRANSCUM	"Voluntary Victim Intoxication in Sexual Assault: A Summary of Legal Standings"	Seth Fallik, Ph.D.	College for Design and Social Inquiry	Heat 4 Runner-Up	VIEW
DAVID GIGUERE	"Early Exposure is Only a Start: Bilingual Outcomes at 6 Years and Young Adulthood in Second Generation Immigrants"	Erika Hoff, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 5 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
BETH BRADY	"Using Manatee Vocalizations to Conserve Related Species"	Edmund Gerstein, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Runner-Up	VIEW
SANDHYA SHARMA	"Point of Care Diagnostic - Zika Detection"	Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 Winner	VIEW
KATE BRINER	"Loanwords in Comanche: Implications for Language Revitalization"	Adam Bradford, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 6 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
RENÉ MILLER-XAVIER	"Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products"	Nicholas Dickens, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 7 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
TRAVIS MOSCICKI	"Guidance, Navigation, and Control of Unmanned Marine Vehicles"	Karl von Ellenrieder, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
JOSEPH NIEDERHAUSER	"Of Fire and Sparrows"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
JOSHUA DISATHAM	"Hypoxia Regulation of Lens Structure and Function"	Marc Kantorow, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 5 Winner	VIEW
SCOTT KARASICK	"Gorgeous Gold Peacocks: The Construction of Masculine Femininity in American Professional Wrestling"	Mark Harvey, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 6 Winner	VIEW
INDHIRA PIQUION	"Tele-to-Me: Promoting Assessment and Management of Depression in Rural Communities through Telehealth"	Beth King, Ph.D.	Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing	Heat 2 Runner-Up & People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
ALEXIS STURM	"Six Degrees of SepaREEFtion: Using Molecular Tools to Assess Coral Genetic Connectivity in Cuba and the Tropical Western Atlantic"	Joshua Voss, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 7 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
ERIC NIEVES	"Underwater Multi-Vehicle Collaboration"	Pierre-Philippe Beaujean, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
WILSON MCLEAN	"The 'What is' and 'How to' of Creating Healthy Public Organizations: Development and Testing of the Public Organization Wellness Quotient (WQ)""	Arthur Sementelli, Ph.D.	College for Design and Social Inquiry	Championship Runner-Up & Heat 4 Winner	VIEW
LUCAS WILSON	"Gay Reparative Therapy at Liberty University"	Alan L. Berger, Ph.D., Andrew Furman, Ph.D., & Eric Berlatsky, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 6 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
MOHAMMAD IRFAN UDDIN	"Undulating Fin Propulsion – The Future of Underwater Maneuvering"	Oscar Curet, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 Runner-Up	VIEW
DARIUS HABER	"Kosher Soul: The Emerging Conflict of Judaic Identity"	Stephen Charbonneau, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Championship People's Choice & Heat 6 Runner-Up	VIEW

2017 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
EMILY STARK	"The Nose Knows: Applications in Machine Olfaction"	Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 7 Winner	VIEW
CRISTINA PIMENTA	"Democracy in China: Paradox or Possibility?"	Mehmet Gurses, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
JULIA ROBLYER	"Smell‐O‐Vision: Using Human Odorant Binding Protein to Measure Landfill Odors"	Daniel Meeroff, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 2 Runner-Up	VIEW
BRIAN MCMAHON	"Early Warning Systems: Predicting Student Success"	Sabrina Sembiante, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 5 Runner-Up	VIEW
NATALIE BERMUDEZ	"Exploring Moral Comfort in Nurses"	Joy Longo, Ph.D.	Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing	Heat 6 Runner-Up	VIEW
MARISA MARTINEZ	"Forecasting the Future of Coastal Ecosystems: A Bird's Eye View"	Dale Gawlik, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Runner-Up	VIEW
NICOLE REID	"Game Time"	Michelle Vaughan, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 5 Winner	VIEW
JOSEPH NIEDERHAUSER	"The Secret Lives of Sparrows"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 Runner-Up	VIEW
KIRSTIE TANDBERG	"Marine Natural Products as Cancer Therapies: Screening for Survivin Inhibitors"	Amy Wright, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 8 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
NANDINI SINGH	"Transformers of the Sugar Code"	Mare Cudic, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 1 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
BREANNA DEGROOT	"Movement and Habitat use of Spotted Eagle Rays Throughout Florida"	Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 8 Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
MIKHAIL GUSEYNOV	"Correlation Between Positive Mentality and Academic Success"	Elizabeth Joy Gillespie, M.B.A.	College of Business	Heat 6 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
RACHEL BLADOW	"Sea Turtle Development in a Changing Climate: Goldilocks Temperatures are Hard to Find"	Sarah Milton, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
BRYAN CONKLIN	"Designing a Brain‐Computer‐Interface that Improves Memory"	Steven Bressler, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up and Heat 7 2^nd Runner‐Up	VIEW
BOB HALSTEAD	"Connecting the Dots in the Circle of Life: A Fish Story"	Paul Wills, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 8 Runner-Up (tie)	VIEW
NICHOLAS DAVENPORT	"Mind Body 1: Training the Brain by Training the Body"	Michael Hall, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 5 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
RACHEL SALESS	"Singing Behavior in the Northern Cardinal"	Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 4 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
MALISSA SANON	"Who’s Your Cody?"	Jennifer Bloom, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 5 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
ERIC NIEVES	"Multiple‐Vehicle Based Underwater Sensing"	Pierre‐Philippe Beaujean, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
FELICIA COOPER	"Sudden Death Due to Pulmonary Embolism Arising from Occult Ovarian Cancer"	Minda Neimark, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	Heat 7 Runner-Up	VIEW
GABRIELA TORTOLEDO	"Marianne from the Tropics: Finding the Feminist Between the Lines"	Desmond Gallant, M.F.A.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 Runner-Up	VIEW
BORIS TEZAK	"Sea Turtle Sex Ratios in a Changing Climate"	Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Winner and People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 7 People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
MICHAEL MILLER	"Diffusion of Mission‐Related Investing by University and Foundation Endowments"	Clifford McCue, Ph.D.	College for Design and Social Inquiry	Heat 6 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
KEITH MURPHY	"Using Light to Control Meal Size"	Ken Dawson‐Scully & William Ja, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Runner-Up and Heat 1 2^nd Runner‐Up	VIEW
DANIEL CREED	"You Are What You...Read"	Thomas Martin, Ph.D.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 3 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
BRANDON MCHENRY	"Zombie Bacteria: Understanding the Viable but Nonculturable State of Vibrio vulnificus"	Peter McCarthy, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 8 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW

2016 Videos

STUDENT NAME	TITLE	FACULTY ADVISOR(S)	COLLEGE	ACCOLADE(S)	VIDEO LINK
ALBERTO PADILLA	"Fatal Millenary Malady"	James Hartmann, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	Heat 1 Runner-Up	VIEW
BETSY EVANS	"The Times They are A-Changin': Wood Stork Response to Human Development"	Dale Gawlik, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 6 Runner-Up	VIEW
VASSILIA BINENSZTOK	"Reflective Practice and Student Counselors' Case Conceptualization Skills"	Len Sperry, Ph.D.	College of Education	Heat 3 Runner-Up	VIEW
CATALINA ARANZAZU-SUESCUN	"Event-based Clustering for Composite Event Detection in Wireless Sensors Networks"	Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 4 Winner	VIEW
DOUGLAS HOLMES	"Making Pathogen Detection Safe with Synthetic Biology"	Nwadiuto Esiobu, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 6 Winner	VIEW
RACHEL FINLEY	"The Lie that Tells the Truth"	Dawn Shamburger, M.F.A.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 5 Winner & People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
CARLIE PERRICONE	"Assessment of Fecal Pollution in Recreational Waters"	Peter McCarthy, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 8 Winner People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
ERIC NIEVES	"Magnetic Fields Created by Underwater Waves"	Pierre-Philippe Beaujean & Manhar Dhanak, Ph.D.	College of Engineering and Computer Science	Heat 3 Winner & People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
KEITH MURPHY	"Postprandial Sleep Mechanics in Drosophila"	Ken Dawson-Scully & William Ja, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship 2^nd Runner-Up Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
SHANNON OUELLETTE	"Finding Empathy Through the Secondary Consciousness of Acting"	Des Gallant, M.F.A.	Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters	Heat 5 2^nd Runner-Up	VIEW
KYLE NEWTON	"Magnetoreception: How the Stingrays Know Where to Go"	Stephen Kajiura, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 6 2^nd Runner-Up & People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
MICHAEL MILLER	"With and Open Mouth and Open Mind: Approaches to Group Problem Solving"	Authur Sementelli, Ph.D.	College for Design and Social Inquiry	Heat 2 Runner-Up	VIEW
MICKELENE HOGGARD	"Snail Spit to Medicine"	Mare Cudic, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Winner & Heat 7 Runner-Up and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
VICTORIA ERB	"Nest to Surf Mortality of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Sea Turtle Hatchlings on Florida’s East Coast"	Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Heat 7 Winner	VIEW
MIKHAIL GUSEYNOV	"Understanding Public Speaking"	Michelle Williams, M.Ed.	College of Business	Championship People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 4 Runner-Up and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
NIRTHIECA SUTHAKARAN	"The Roles of MsrA and MsrB in Anoxia Tolerance in Aging Drosophila melanogaster"	David Binninger, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine	Heat 1 Winer and People's Choice Award Winner	VIEW
STEPHANIE KELLY	"Of Flies and Men: Insights from an Age-Related Stress Tolerance Assay"	Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D.	Charles E. Schmidt College of Science	Championship Runner-Up Heat 8 Runner-Up	VIEW

//	Omair Faqah "Shrinking the Lab: HIV Testing Anytime, Anywhere" FAU 2025 3MT® Winner College of Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.
//	Jamie Knaub "Scanning the Seas: Micro-CT Analysis of Cetacean Vertebral Bone" FAU 2025 3MT® Runner Up Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Advisor: Marianne Porter, Ph.D.
//	Ray Pressman "Begging the Question: Born Loud, Stay Loud?" FAU 2025 3MT® Second Runner-Up Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Advisor: Rindy Anderson, Ph.D.
//	Kayla Ahlness "When Two Become One: Investigating the Behavior of Hybrid African Monkeys" FAU 2025 3MT® People's Choice Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Advisor: Kate Detwiler, Ph.D.

Media

2025 Championship Winners

Omair Faqah

"Shrinking the Lab: HIV Testing Anytime, Anywhere"

FAU 2025 3MT® Winner

Jamie Knaub

"Scanning the Seas: Micro-CT Analysis of Cetacean Vertebral Bone"

FAU 2025 3MT® Runner Up

Ray Pressman

"Begging the Question: Born Loud, Stay Loud?"

FAU 2025 3MT® Second Runner-Up

Kayla Ahlness

"When Two Become One: Investigating the Behavior of Hybrid African Monkeys"FAU 2025 3MT® People's Choice

"When Two Become One: Investigating the Behavior of Hybrid African Monkeys"
FAU 2025 3MT® People's Choice