Track: Behavioral and Cognitive 

Graduation Year: Spring 2024

Hometown: Eldersburg, MD

Meet Hailey! Hailey first became interested in neuroscience in 7th grade when she got to dissect a sheep's brain. Since then, she has always known that she wants to study the brain! Her own family’s experiences with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease have also made her even more passionate about neuroscience and she hopes to one day run her own research lab as a Principal Investigator researching novel treatments and biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Her next step is pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience!

For the past three semesters, Hailey has worked as a research assistant in the Child Development Lab under Dr. Nathan Fox. She is also completing her Neuroscience Honors thesis in that lab as well. For her thesis, she is investigating the association between event-related potentials (particularly the P300) and internalizing behaviors throughout adolescence. She has also participated in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Neuroscience Summer Internship program where she conducted full-time research in the Dawson lab studying the effect of exercise-induced proteins on certain neurodegenerative cell pathologies. Hailey is currently an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for NEUR306, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. 

Hailey was awarded the Gregory F. Ball Scholarship award through the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences last fall and this spring she received a National Tau Sigma Branch Scholarship Award as a member of the UMD Chapter of Tau Sigma. In addition to being a member of Tau Sigma, she is also a member of the UMD chapters of Nu Rho Psi and Phi Kappa Phi.