Nicholas Gregorich from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering won first place at Clemson University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on November 8, 2019.
3MT is a research communication competition that challenges research higher degree students to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in just three minutes in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. Graduate students from all colleges at Clemson competed in preliminary rounds before all coming together for the finalist competition.
Nicholas won the PhD candidate category for his presentation, “Green Filtration for Cleaner Water.” He is advised by Dr. Eric Davis. Nick went on to represent Clemson at the March 2020 Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) 3MT competition in Birmingham, Alabama.
Nicholas Gregorich attended the Conference for Southern Graduate Schools on March 6-7, 2020 at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Here, he represented Clemson University in the regional 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. There were 54 schools in attendance for the competition, and Nick became a finalist and placed in the top 8. This is the furthest any Clemson student has achieved in the 3MT competition.