2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition Winners:
from Microplastics to Philosophy
by Margaret Savoie
Second Place Master’s
This year’s second place master’s 3MT Winner is Dakota Layton, a philosophy master’s student from Huntsville, AL.
Layton’s research focuses on analyzing how the spread of fake news contributes to the problem of truth-decay and how this problem infringed on an idea of Freedom. Expanding the understanding of Freedom is one of many steps needed to address the problem of truth-decay.
“We must expand our understanding of Freedom, not just for the purpose of addressing truth-decay, but for advancing the Common Good, understood as the happiness and well-being of all of our fellow citizens with whom all of us share the gift of civic friendship,” stated Layton.
Layton commented, “I am proud to have presented my work for my fellow Graduate School peers who are all doing really fantastic and timely research on solutions to problems that we are currently facing as a society and I am honored to have placed second among this group of superb finalists!”
The Graduate School is proud of all the 3MT participants in both the preliminary rounds and final rounds. Thank you to everyone who has supported these students in their endeavors.