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2019 University of Calgary Three Minute Thesis Finalists
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![Laura Rios Carreno](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0089.jpg?itok=YJHRcfEz)
Winner and Canadian National People's Choice Winner
Laura Rios Carreno, Engineering - Chemical and Petroleum
Supervisor: Dr. Martin Jasso
Modification of Asphalt with Reactive Polymers for Quality Enhancement of the Pavement
![Laura Crack](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0096.jpg?itok=RyQJzVeM)
Second Place
Laura Crack, Kinesiology
Supervisor: Dr. Tish Doyle-Baker
CHESS: Change in Hormones with Exposure to Student Stress
![Benjamin Blyth](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0023.jpg?itok=BR7aFsfG)
Third Place and People's Choice
Benjamin Blyth, English
Supervisor: Dr. Susan Bennett
Shakespeare's "Shoreditch Nineteen": Site-Specificity and Collective Creation in Shakespeare's Early Works
![Annie Hoang](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0066.jpg?itok=9RmcyPQi)
Finalist
Annie Hoang, Chemistry
Supervisor: Dr. Viola Birss
Lower Cost Particles for Eco-Friendly Vehicles
![Rachel Kratofil](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0043.jpg?itok=y00fN18x)
Finalist
Rachel Kratofil, Medicine – Immunology
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Kubes
Visualizing the Immune System in the Heat of Battle with Staphylococcus aureus
![Emily Macphail](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0109.jpg?itok=Ul7n9NxO)
Finalist
Emily Macphail, Medicine - Medical Science
Supervisors: Dr. Paul Arnold and Dr. Raylene Reimer
A Gut Feeling? The Role of Diet and Microbiota in Youth With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
![Darren Mazzei](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0136.jpg?itok=A3FjfHKK)
Finalist
Darren Mazzei, Medicine - Medical Science
Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Marshall
Economics, Arthritis and Making Tough Choices in Health Care
![Lucy Poley](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0121.jpg?itok=QUTsOrnT)
Finalist
Lucy Poley, Geography
Supervisor: Dr. Greg McDermid
Measuring the Biomass of Plains Bison Forage Vegetation from a Drone
![Carly Pontifex](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0117.jpg?itok=mssRylJn)
Finalist
Carly Pontifex, Medicine - Neuroscience
Supervisor: Dr. Gerald Pfeffer
Eating Yourself: Autophagy in Neuromuscular Disease
![Nisha Vashi](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-06/Job_0079.jpg?itok=zIuHTePc)
Finalist
Nisha Vashi, Psychology
Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Curtin
Walk it Like I Talk it: Language and Motor Development in Children with Disabilities
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