{"583978":{"#nid":"583978","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ChBE Student Wins Three-Minute Thesis Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonica McNerney, a PhD student in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), won first place in the 2016 Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, held on November 15.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMcNerney, who is advised by Associate Professor Styczynski, won a $2,000 travel grant for \u0026ldquo;Bacterial biosensors: Low-cost, Field-friendly Nutrition Tests.\u0026rdquo; See \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HtlhBECW0GA\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022\u003EYouTube video\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 3MT competition, which started at the University of Queensland in Australia and has spread to campuses around the world, is an event that challenges Ph.D. students to explain their research in three minutes in a way that someone with no knowledge of the subject would understand. Last year, Georgia Tech held its first annual 3MT event.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother ChBE PhD student, Lalit Arun Darunte, was among 10 finalists chosen from two preliminary rounds. Advised by Professors Christopher Jones, David Sholl and Krista Walton, Darunte presented \u0026ldquo;CO2 Capture from Ai\u0026rdquo; in the competition. See \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Muhlfok4M7U\u0022\u003EYouTube video\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonica McNerney, a PhD student in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), won first place in the 2016 Georgia Tech Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, held on November 15.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Monica McNerney\u0027s first-place award includes $2,000 travel grant"}],"uid":"27271","created_gmt":"2016-11-16 23:45:05","changed_gmt":"2016-11-17 00:51:48","author":"Brad Dixon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583961":{"id":"583961","type":"image","title":"Monica McNerney, 2016 3MT Winner","body":null,"created":"1479321418","gmt_created":"2016-11-16 18:36:58","changed":"1479321418","gmt_changed":"2016-11-16 18:36:58","alt":"Monica McNerney, 2016 3MT Winner","file":{"fid":"222625","name":"2016 3MT Winner .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2016%203MT%20Winner%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2016%203MT%20Winner%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":416755,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2016%203MT%20Winner%20.jpg?itok=LSzAJ94H"}}},"media_ids":["583961"],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172263","name":"Georgia Tech School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering"},{"id":"172737","name":"Monica McNerney"},{"id":"172738","name":"Three-Minute Thesis Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrad Dixon (404-385-2299), \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:braddixon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebraddixon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}