Cornell graduate students distilled their research into five-minute presentations at the university’s Oct. 16 Volunteer Summit, according to Cornell.
The Research Lightning Talks: Big Ideas Demystified program gave volunteers a quick introduction to work across academic fields.
Presenters included Zander Lynch, Subash Bhandari, Joy Yuri Kim and David Tompkins.
The format drew inspiration from Three Minute Thesis, a competition that challenges researchers to explain their work clearly to a broad audience.
The summit presentations used a five-minute limit to make complex ideas accessible to people outside the speakers’ specialties.
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