Monthly Archives: April 2014

Congratulations to the three Ed Neuro Lab undergraduates have won scholarships to continue their research this summer!

Dani Day and Abbie Zellner have won Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships.  Dani and Abbie were among 112 winners, out of 245 applications.  The Hilldale Fellowships will provide them  with summer support and some additional funds to pursue their projects examining the cognitive foundations of basic numerical processes.  Dani will be exploring the degree to which we can map between number across the senses (multisensory integration of number), while Abbie will be exploring the processes that link between basic numerical representations and number symbols.  

In addition, McKenna Splett has won a Welton Honors Summer Sophomore Research Apprenticeship to fund her research into the consequences of synesthesia  on learning and memory.

Next week, the Ed. Neuro. Lab will be making multiple presentations around the UW-Madison campus.  First, our URS students, Grace George and Taylor Shiff will be presenting at the URS Undergraduate Symposium on Thursday, April 10.  In addition, Ed will be giving two presentations, on Tuesday April 8 as part of the Waisman Early Childhood Seminar Series and on Friday, April 11 in the Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar.

Our PhD student, Liz Toomarian was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund the next three years of her graduate studies. Out of 14000 applicants, only 2000 Fellowships were awarded.  Liz is one of only 30 grad students at UW-Madison who received an NSF Fellowship this year, and one of 35 people in the entire country to receive an award in the Psychology-Cognitive Neuroscience area. Congratulations, Liz!