UW–Madison’s Vlach advisor to Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship recipients

Haley Vlach imageHaley Vlach, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been named an advisor recipient of the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year for two submissions. 

The Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship provides research training and support to undergraduates. Student recipients receive a $3,000 stipend (purpose unrestricted) to pursue their designated research topics with the aid of a faculty/staff advisor. The faculty/staff advisor also receives a $1,000 stipend to support their advisee’s research efforts.

Vlach will work alongside undergraduate recipients Olivia Goulette and Zechun Zhao as they use the funds to support their research projects. 

Goulette, a communication sciences & disorders major, was awarded the fellowship for her project “Hands-On or Hands-Off? Embodiment and its Effect of Novel Word Disorders Learning and Generalization in Children.” And Zhao, a psychology and statistics double major, was awarded the fellowship for his project titled “The Effect of Spaced Learning on Second Language (L2) Vocabulary Acquisition.”

For more information on the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, click here.

For a list of all Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship recipients, click here.