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Years of Research in 3 Minutes: Can You Do It?

Say you’re at a family reunion, and a grandparent asks about your graduate school research. Excited to have a willing ear, you dive headfirst into the deep end, speeding through a catalogue of niche facts and findings. Only when you’ve run out of breath do you see the blank stare on the face before you and realize you’ve lost your audience.

Maybe that’s a low-stakes example, but consider the vast array of audiences who might ask just what it is that you’re doing in graduate school: potential employers, collaborators, donors, news reporters, and industry partners, to name a few.