{"583524":{"#nid":"583524","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Sciences Ph.D. Students Reach Finals of Three Minute Thesis Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFiguring out how to heal broken bones is a problem Pranav Kalelkar has spent years researching. But the bigger challenge? Squeezing all of that research into a three-minute presentation for the 2016 Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges Ph.D. students to explain their research to someone with no knowledge of the subject in just three minutes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKalelkar is a 5th-year Ph.D. student in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He has modified a biorenewable and biodegradable polyester to enable attachment of biomolecules, such as proteins, in various ways. 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