Toronto Metropolitan University Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

🚨The 3MT® is BACK at TMU!🚨

Get ready to be inspired by bold ideas, groundbreaking research, and powerful storytelling, all in just THREE minutes. 🎤

Join us next Wednesday, March 25, from Noon to 2:30 p.m. on the 8th floor of the SLC for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition. Drop in anytime, grab some refreshments, and experience research like you have never seen it before.

🎓 Watch graduate students take on the challenge of presenting their work in just one slide and three minutes, making complex ideas engaging, accessible, and impactful.

Learn more in this week's GRAD+Postdoc News: rebrand.ly/d60b57

The body double effect is real. Sometimes the easiest way to start writing is simply seeing someone else already doing it ✍🏼👥

Last fall, 37 graduate students joined the Graduate Write-a-Thon and collectively drafted, revised, and reviewed more than 100 pages in a single day. 📄

Graduate writing may feel like a solo pursuit, but the Write-a-Thon turns it into a shared experience built on accountability, momentum, and mutual support.

As graduate student support consultant Taeja McKoy says: “Sometimes just being in the presence of other students who are working hard can be the encouragement and motivation needed.”

Because thesis writing can be isolating: long hours, blinking cursors, looming deadlines. The Write-a-Thon changes that with structured writing blocks, goal-setting, coffee, and a room (and Zoom) full of peers quietly pushing their work forward together.

📅 Next Graduate Write-a-Thon: March 19
📍 Online + in person at the DCC, 7th floor
🔗 Register through the link in bio

“Representing TMU and winning serves as a powerful reminder that our lab work has real implications for patients across Canada,” says TMU Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Nicholas Simard, who recently won the 5 Minute Research Talks competition . His groundbreaking research uses AI to leverage “cross-talk” between different medical imaging modalities.

Dr. Simard has become the second TMU postdoc in three years to take home first place at the 5MRT competition. Congrats, Nicholas! 🎉

Read the full story at link in bio! 🔗