Initial heats in the UWindsor Three Minute Thesis run Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24 and 25.

The public is invited to hear master’s and doctoral students explain the relevance of their thesis or dissertation work in less than three minutes. There are cash prizes, and UWindsor’s champion will represent the University, all expenses paid, at the provincial final to be held in London on April 23.

Both sets of heats begin at 3 p.m. in Vanier Hall’s Katzman Lounge. Presenting Wednesday are:

• Charrie McFadden, Department of Biological Sciences, “Olfactory Sensory Neurons in the Sea Lamprey”
• Amirreza Talaei, Department of Psychology. “Organizational Identification: Too Much of a Good Thing? The Role of Self-Esteem”
• Kourosh Khedri Liraviasl, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, “Product Customization and Personalization in an Intelligent Production”
• Anna Crater-Potter, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, “Please leave a message”
• Alex Pennetti, Department of Kinesiology, “Train Your Brain”
• Kyle Eckart, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, “How to prevent climate change from flooding your basement”
• Darci Thomson, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology; “Nothing’s Come Easy for Me. Everything is Hard: Female Youth, Struggle and Resiliency”
• Anivesh Reddy Minipuri, School of Computer Science, “What-if in an organization”
• Raja Sankar Dileep Muddu, School of Computer Science, “Assistive Robotics”

The March 30 finals, at 2 p.m. in the Ambassador Auditorium, are also open to the public. Find more information on the contest website.