2015 90 Second Thesis Competition

2015 Rice University Graduate Student

90 Second Thesis Competition

March 13, 2015, 5:00 – 8:30 PM
McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall

 

Grand Prize & Audience Choice Award
Sydney Gibson, Bioengineering
“Road to Invasion: Understanding Blood Vessel Formation in Cancer”

 

Best in Engineering
Yu Jun Leong, Civil & Environmental Engineering
“Forced into Smoking”

 

Best in Social Science
Julie Hughes, Psychology
“Bilingualism: Does Speaking Two Languages Provide Cognitive Advantages?”

 

Best in Natural Science
Alicia Jones, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
“Better, Faster, Stronger: Studying Effects of Circular Permutation to Expand the Protein Engineering Toolbox”

 

Best in Humanities & Music
AnaMaria Seglie, English
“Sacred Dominion: Anti-Catholicism and the Romance of U.S. Imperialism, 1820-1900”

 

Best in Humanities & Music
Makiko Hirata, Shepherd School of Music
“Must We Memorize?”

 

View all videos from the 2015 90 Second Thesis Competition here.