{"629170":{"#nid":"629170","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Paola Zanella Wins Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EReduce the risk of helicopter accidents. Predict how an oil spill will play out. Find a new alternative to lithium batteries. Could you explain how to do any of these in three minutes?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Nov. 14, 18 Ph.D. students and one master\u0026rsquo;s student took on the challenge of explaining these topics and others during the final round of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst prize and a $2,000 research travel grant went to Paola Zanella, a doctoral student in Aerospace Engineering, for her presentation, \u0026ldquo;Mitigation of Helicopter Accidents Related to Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional awards were given to the following students: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPh.D Second Place: \u003C\/strong\u003ESmruthi Karthikeyan, Civil and Environmental\u0026nbsp;Engineering,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMicrobes, Oil Spills and Beyond: Using Microbes to Predict the Impact of Oil Spills\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPh.D. Third Place: \u003C\/strong\u003ESuttipong Suttapitugsakul, Chemistry and Biochemistry,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENot Just A Sugar Coating! Understanding The Language Of Cells Through their Sweet Surface\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPh.D. People\u0026rsquo;s Choice Award:\u003C\/strong\u003E Jeongwon Kim, Mechanical Engineering,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESuppression of Combustion Instability\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaster\u0026rsquo;s Winner:\u003C\/strong\u003E Po-Wei Huang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EA Sustainable Method to Alleviate the Global Thirst of Lithium\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the 3MT Competition, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Egrad.gatech.edu\/3MT.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaola Zanella, a doctoral student in Aerospace Engineering, has won first place in Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s annual 3MT Competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Paola Zanella, a doctoral student in Aerospace Engineering, has won first place in Georgia Tech\u0027s annual 3MT Competition."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2019-11-20 17:42:25","changed_gmt":"2019-11-20 17:45:36","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629166":{"id":"629166","type":"image","title":"2019 3MT Winners","body":null,"created":"1574270735","gmt_created":"2019-11-20 17:25:35","changed":"1574270735","gmt_changed":"2019-11-20 17:25:35","alt":"2019 3MT Winners","file":{"fid":"239612","name":"3MT Winners.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3MT%20Winners.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3MT%20Winners.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1510562,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/3MT%20Winners.jpg?itok=CuUT6f5Z"}}},"media_ids":["629166"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/3MT","title":"3MT Competition "}],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tatianna.richardson@grad.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETatianna Richardson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOffice of Graduate Studies\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}