Nguyen earns 2018 3MT title
Nipissing University’s 2018 3MT champion is An Nguyen, a master of arts in History student, on the strength of her presentation,What do you know about the Vietnam War?
Nguyen takes home the $500 prize and the opportunity to compete in the provincial 3MT finals at York University on April 19.
Runner Up was awarded to Carolyne Ticky, a master of arts in History student, for her presentation,Before Diaries Were Diaries.
The 2018 People’s Choice award went to Stephanie Munten, a master of science in Kinesiology student, for her presentation,Exercise Performance Response to Multiple External Stressors.
NU News will feature a video of the winning presentation as soon as it is available.
Here is a brief summary of Nguyen’s work:
In U.S. history courses, the Vietnam War is taught from an American perspective. The last Americans left the country in 1975, but for millions of Vietnamese people, the story was just beginning. Nguy?n Qu?c H?ng was born in Saigon in the midst of the war. He fled Vietnam at the age of twenty-five, a "boat person" in one of the largest refugee crises in the world. He eventually resettled in Toronto and had three more children, including Nipissing student An Nguyen, who wants to prove to you that stories like this are vital to our understanding of the Vietnam War.
3MT is an annual competition for masters and doctoral students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in three minutes.
Developed by the University of Queensland in 2008 to promote effective communication of research, over 170 universities from more than 18 countries will compete this year.
The challenge for the speakers is to present complex research material in an engaging, compelling way, and in such a way that the material can be understood by those outside that field.
One of the strengths of the competition is that it benefits both those who speak and those who spectate. In today’s competitive research climate, it is necessary that researchers are able to promote their work. Presenting with a specific set of constraints forces the speakers to focus on the message of their work, distilling their research into a clear form, without over-simplifying or making overly complex arguments, and highlighting the wider implications of this research.