MSCCJ Student Wows at 3-Minute Thesis Competition
Monday, Jul 21, 2025
Samantha White Wins Preliminary Round & 'People's Choice'
(L-R) Gabriel T Cesar, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ); MSCCJ student Samantha White; and Cassandra Atkin-Plunk, PhD, SCCJ associate professor and associate director, pose together after White won both first place and People's Choice at the preliminary round of the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT庐) Competition. She took home $1,000 for first place and $500 more for People's Choice! Her Capstone project is called "The Co-Responder Model of Policing: A Scoping Review."
Watch Samantha flex her research prowess, studying a game-changing approach to policing that is gaining traction throughout the nation.