June 27, 2025
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Hayley Woodrich is a Graduate Student in the Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change
When Hayley Woodrich learned she'd been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in June, she almost didn’t believe it.
“I got an email from NSF and thought, ‘Oh, great! Feedback is finally out!” she said. “Then I opened the email, started reading, and said, ‘Wait a minute.’ I took a screenshot and sent it to my advisors, saying, ‘What?’”
The honor is one of the most competitive and prestigious fellowships for graduate students in the sciences and will support Woodrich—now a graduate student in the Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change (ESEC) at the University of Illinois—as she investigates seismic swarms and magma movement under Yellowstone National Park.
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