Congratulations to our undergraduate students receiving 2024-2025 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship awards. Generous grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin State Legislature provide for awards of $3,000 each to undergraduate students and $1,000 to their faulty advisors to work in collaboration on research projects.
Evenlyn Anton
Mentor: Margarita Kaushanskaya, Ph.D.
Project: Learning Words in Two Dialects
Bailey Finch
Mentor: Audra Sterling, Ph.D.
Project: Gesture and Nonverbal Communication in Females with Fragile X Syndrome
Veronica Goveas
Mentor: Michelle Ciucci, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Project: Exercise and Neurotrophic Factors in Brain, Tongue, and Larynx in the Pink1-/- Rat Model of Parkinson Disease
Kerry Lannon
Mentor: Carrie Niziolek, Ph.D.
Project: Increasing speech intelligibility in Parkinson’s disease by inducing vowel space expansion in response to altered auditory feedback
Hannah Wahl
Mentor: Margarita Kaushanskaya, Ph.D.
Project: The Effect of Bilingual Parental Input on Novel Word Learning