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The Graduate School has announced the recipients of awards for Research Evening and the NoCo 3MT® Three Minute Thesis events, as part of the Graduate Research Symposium. The recipients include:

Research Evening: Hutchinson-Lahman Research Award
The purpose of the award is to support graduate students’ dissemination of their research at a national or regional conference. Award winners received travel funding to present at a professional conference.

Oral Presentation:

• First Place: Sam Kerwin
• Second Place: Tie between Victoria Duncan and Katherine Drake

Poster Presentation:

• First Place: Jessica Duke
• Second Place: Betsey Hubbard
• Third Place: Katherine George

CEBS Diversity and Equity Award:

• First Place: Victoria Duncan

NoCo 3MT® Three Minute Thesis Competition:

The NoCo 3MT® Three Minute Thesis competition is a professional development competition that spotlights the dissertation and thesis projects of doctoral and master's students at the University of Northern Colorado. Graduate students have three minutes to present their dissertation/thesis projects in language that can be easily understood by a public audience. The winner of the competition received a monetary prize and will go on to compete in the Colorado Graduate Schools 3MT competition in Denver.

• First Place: Jessica Duke, Exploring University Student Perceptions of Climate Change Using Connection to Nature and Psychological Distance
• Second Place: Lisa Paulson, Voices of Change: Exploring Physical Education Stakeholders' Policy Work in the United States
• Third Place: Ryan Cheuk Ming Cheung, A Narrative Inquiry into the Perceptions of Counseling Faculty Regarding the Use of Humor in Clinical Supervision