Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 1: A globally acclaimed competition among researchers and academia popularly known as 3MT, Three-Minute Thesis Competition was held today at Central University of Jammu (CUJ) wherein young researchers participated with full gusto.
3MT is evolving as one of the best practices of the CUJ as the University has taken a lead in registering with the University of Queensland to organize 3MT which has been adopted by 200 universities across the globe. 3MT is a global level competition which was developed by the University of Queensland, Australia with the objective of providing a platform to young researchers to present to effectively explain research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience in three minutes with only one PowerPoint slide.
Young enthusiastic researchers of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) stream from Central University of Jammu and various other universities participated in the 3 MT. Around 30 young researchers from different disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences had registered for the Competition and they were adjudicated by a panel of judges comprising Prof Vijaylakshmi Brara from The Royal Global University Guwahati and Prof Suparn Sharma (Dean, School of Business Studies, SMVD University).
The first prize of Rs 5,000 cash was won by Abhigya Langeh NSS from CUJ, second with prize money of Rs 3000 was won by Shivalika Sharma (SBS, SMVDU) and the third prize with cash money of Rs 1500 was won by Surbhi Ghai, MBA (HR) from CUJ. In addition to this, consolation prize was won by Karuna DOE, CUJ, Mridul, DOE, CUJ and Suhail, Social work, CUJ.
In his address, Registrar, Prof Yashwant Singh highlighted how CUJ has been granted prestigious projects by various funding agencies and 3 MT is a right step to enhance research competence of scholars as envisioned by the Vice Chancellor.
Earlier, in her introductory remarks, Prof Vandana Sharma (Dean, School of Languages and Convener of CUJ 3 MT) gave an overview of the history, genesis and objective of 3 MT.
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