Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

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Dietrich School Peer Advisors provide in-person and virtual support to prospective, incoming, and enrolled students needing assistance with questions and concerns related to academic advising. The incumbent will provide peer-to-peer mentorship to the University community. Tasks could include, but are not limited to strengthening interpersonal skills, assisting with mentoring, and providing academic assistance.

For details, go to Talent Center, click “Find Positions,” and then "Students." Scroll through the list or search for “Peer Advisor” in the job title box. The requisition number is 24001998.

We are conducting a longitudinal study investigating how differences in psychological, biological, and behavioral factors may predict healthy aging in older adults. Part of this project involves using an MRI to examine whether these differences between participants predict differences in markers of brain aging and how measures of brain structures may relate to changes in cognitive functioning over a 10-15 year follow-up period.

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The Prenatal Stress Study is seeking a full time Research Technologist to work in East Lansing, MI. The research project is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development and focuses on how the timing of prenatal stress affects later infant behavior and physiology as well as the relationship between the mother and child. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, recruiting participants, training and supervising research assistants and staff, collaborating with University of Michigan partners, and maintaining quality control over data collection. In addition, the Research Technologist will be submitting IRB revisions, ordering supplies, shipping samples, and reimbursing participants.

Full description and application details can be found her: https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/518193/research-technologist-i. 

I’m looking to hire a new research coordinator for my lab at Rutgers, with a Summer 2024 start date. This is a great opportunity for someone interested in going to graduate school.

The position will involve opportunities to work on assessment and treatment studies that use a variety of technology studies in a variety of settings and receive support for application to PhD programs (e.g., including opportunities for paper authorshhttps://kleimanlab.org/join-us/ip).

Research coordinators will have an option to work across several projects, based upon training desires and lab needs:

1. Project MARS (Multi-Site Assessment of Suicide Risk; R01MH124899, MPI: Evan Kleiman), which involves assessing suicide risk using smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and wearable actigraphic monitors to assess suicide risk among youth leaving inpatient psychiatric care.
2. Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Study (R34MH123590, MPI: Evan Kleiman), This study involves providing an app that delivers dCBT-I (Sleepio) to teens leaving inpatient psychiatric care.
3. Project ADAPT (After-Discharge Assessment of Brief Psychotherapy). This study involves brief in-person treatment, supplemented with a mobile app at several units at Rutgers’ hospitals.
4. Other projects that involve collaboration with our broader network of collaborators through the Rutgers Suicide Research and Prevention Collaboratory (SPARC) including the New Jersey State Medical Examiner’s Office and Rutgers’ Counseling Center.

More information can be found here: https://kleimanlab.org/join-us/

The Mood & Mind Lab (https://www.pediatricbipolar.pitt.edu/mood-mind-lab) uses precision clinical and brain measures to better understand early trajectories for mood disorders (especially bipolar disorder) in young people with and at-risk for mood disorders, especially bipolar disorder. We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team, contributing to an ongoing study assessing the mechanisms of a mindfulness (vs. health & wellness) intervention to target emotion dysregulation in young people.

The Research Specialist will report to the Lead Research Projector Coordinator and Dr. Hafeman. The position will entail responsibilities including running neuroimaging visits, monitoring participant data (e.g., scales, EMA data), assisting with analyzing neuroimaging data, and assisting with designing and programming behavioral and neuroimaging tasks.

For more information and to apply, click here: https://careers.upmc.com/job/20272218/research-specialist-the-mood-and-mind-lab-pittsburgh-pa/.

Candidates are being considered for a NIMH/NIAAA-funded post-baccalaureate Study Coordinator position in the laboratory of Dr. Alex Shackman in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Under the supervision of Dr. Shackman and other senior staff, the Study Coordinator will play a central role in ongoing NIAAA- and NIMH-sponsored projects aimed at understanding the neurocomputational architecture of fear and anxiety and its role in adult anxiety and alcohol use disorders. This position will provide opportunities to gain experience with neuroimaging (fMRI), smartphone ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and structured clinical interviews. This is an exciting opportunity to receive top-notch mentorship and establish a competitive research record—including publications and conference presentations—in preparation for graduate training in clinical psychology, affective neuroscience, or medicine. You can learn more about former Study Coordinators on our Alumni page.

This is a 1-year position that is renewable, contingent on performance and funding. Duties may include, but are not limited to, subject recruitment and scheduling; data acquisition, processing, and archiving; study/database management; general grant and lab administration; and manuscript/figure preparation. Some duties (e.g. MRI sessions) will occur during evening or weekend hours.

Applicants should send: (1) a Cover Letter summarizing relevant experiences, skills, and interests—please be specific and concrete; (2) a CV/Resume, (3) relevant Transcripts (unofficial copies are fine), and (4) Contact Information for 2-4 references. Please send your materials to Dominique Ewing (dewing1@umd.edu). Formal letters of recommendation are not required for the initial application and will only be requested for short-listed applicants.