The campus community can watch grad students try to beat the clock Tuesday in the Three Minute Thesis competition, starting at 1 p.m. in the Ambassador Auditorium, CAW Student Centre.

Now in its fifth year, the contest challenges doctoral and master’s candidates to offer a presentation on their thesis or dissertation topic to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. Top finishers will win cash prizes and the champion will represent the University of Windsor in a provincial competition. Winners there advance to a national round in June.

Scheduled presenters include:

• Mary Ann Zokvic, human kinetics, “Putting a squeeze on heart disease”
• Nesreen Elkord, education, “Will you hold my hand to the end of the road?”
• Jonathan Mertz, history, “No, we are not going back”
• Travis DeWolfe, chemistry and biochemistry, “Supercomputers against superbugs”
• Mehdi Mehdi, mechanical, automotive and materials engineering, “Could Magneto save the world?”
• Antonette Scavone, psychology, “Going to the dark side”
• Bahar Youssefi, electrical and computer engineering, “Secret message from the brain”
• Christopher Cameron, English language, literature and creative writing, “There and back again”
• Dragana Ostojic, psychology, “Examining our wandering minds”
• Molly-Gloria Harper, sociology, anthropology and criminology, “Can't you just delete it?”
• Rose Gomar, electrical and computer engineering, “Brain-inspired computers”
• Priscilla Bernauer, English language, literature and creative writing, “A little Miss”

Find more information on the competition website.