Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

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To contact us, email psyadvis@pitt.edu or use drop-in advising. This is the best way to reach us - please avoid emailing individual advisors.

A preregistration email for the Spring 2024 term was recently dispatched to all psychology majors, containing instructions on how to resolve your ADV/enrollment hold.

To check your enrollment date for the upcoming Spring 2024 term, please access your Student Center.

We anticipate that Spring 2024 courses will become accessible during the early part of the week beginning October 2.

If you have questions regarding enrollment, courses, experiential learning, or related matters, we encourage you to utilize our drop-in advising services.

The Undergraduate Advising Office in the Department of Psychology is searching for Administrative/Office Support. Applicants must have a work study award and be available to work 7-10 hours per week. Applicants do NOT need to be Psychology majors. Duties include, but are not limited to, copying, filing, maintaining an organized and professional office and reception area and assisting director, associate director and advisors.

Find Positions (top of page) --> Students --> log in with your Pitt credentials --> in Keyword box, search job # 23006935

University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health Virtual and Asynchronous Open House for Prospective Grad Students will launch October 6!

Students explore Pitt Public Health graduate programs at their own pace and learn how their interests and career goals can fit with public health disciplines. Informational recordings for each of our 7 departments will be available to view when convenient, plus meet faculty and staff at virtual, live Q&A sessions throughout October.

The registration link and more information can be found on our website.

Our departments include:

    Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
    Biostatistics
    Epidemiology
    Environmental and Occupational Health
    Health Policy and Management
    Human Genetics
    Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

If I can provide you or your students with more information—about our open house, our school, or the field of public health—do not hesitate to contact me at rthill@pitt.edu.

Are you interested in increasing your career options and earning a promotion? Do you know a child considering undergraduate majors or grad school? The School of Education is the pathway to highly ranked degrees and certificates in teacher education, exercise science, applied developmental psychology, instructional design technology, higher education—and much more!

FALL ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSES >>
Will offer an overview of all bachelor’s, master’s, EdD, PhD, and graduate certificates.

    October 10 | 6 p.m. ET - Undergraduate Programs (1502 Posvar Hall)
       October 26 | 6 p.m. ET - Graduate Programs (5601 Posvar Hall)
      November 2 | 6 p.m. ET -  Undergraduate & Graduate Programs (Virtual)
    November 9 | 8 a.m. ET -  International Students (Virtual)
Learn more about Fall Open House info sessions

MASTER’S IN HIGHER EDUCATION INFO SESSIONS >>

For early-career professionals interested in working in collegiate student affairs and other roles in higher education

    September 29 | 1 p.m. ET (Virtual)
    October 10 | 6 p.m. ET (Virtual)
    October 19 | Noon ET (Hybrid Lunch and Learn)
    November 16 | Noon ET (Virtual)
    January 17, 2024 | 12:30 p.m. (Virtual)
    March 14, 2024 | 6 p.m. ET (Virtual)

Register for MEd in Higher Education Info Session
Visit MEd in Higher Education degree page

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY CERTIFICATE >>
For aspiring instructional design professionals who want to gain a credential to work in the K-12, higher education, government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors.

    September 27 | 5:30 p.m. ET (Virtual)
    October 25 | 5 p.m. ET (Virtual)
    November 28 | 5 p.m. ET (Virtual)
    December 12 | 5 p.m. ET (Virtual)

Register for Instructional Design & Technology Info Session
Visit Instructional Design certificate page

The Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Miami invites applications for fall 2024 (https://dev.psy.miami.edu/). The application deadline is December 1st. Students are fully funded and receive excellent research training for careers in academia and beyond. Our program focuses on understanding children’s cognitive, language, social, and emotional development in typically-developing, atypically-developing, and at-risk populations. Our developmental studies typically include bilingual children and children from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Our outstanding faculty are committed to graduate training and mentorship. The following faculty are accepting students:

Jennifer C. Britton, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Jen is a neuroscientist who focuses on understanding the intersection of anxiety (e.g., approach-avoidance, threat processing), the developmental and neural correlates of emotional flexibility, and treatment (e.g., fear and extinction learning, attention bias modification).

Daryl B. Greenfield, Ph.D., Professor. Daryl conducts collaborative research to understand the development of scientific thinking in early childhood. He focuses on low-income minority children, using STEM as a foundational focus for school readiness, and creating new technology for early childhood assessment.

Daniel Messinger, Ph.D., Professor. Daniel investigates early interaction to better understand healthy and disturbed development. He employs objective measurements of big behavioral data to understand emotional, social, and language development in the context of poverty and autism.

Lynn K. Perry, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Lynn works both in the lab and in preschools to investigate the influences of linguistic (shape bias and iconicity) and social (peer input and turn-taking with adults) regularities on language development in children with language delays, hearing loss, autism spectrum disorder, and typical development.

Rebecca Bulotsky Shearer, Ph.D., Professor. Rebecca conducts community-based research with early childhood programs to promote social-emotional skills, school readiness, and early school achievement through classroom-level investigation and intervention.

Elizabeth A. Simpson, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Liz studies early infant social cognitive development in humans and monkeys, including studies of neonatal imitation and face perception. She uses behavioral (e.g., eye-tracking) and physiological (e.g., salivary oxytocin) measures to track infant development longitudinally from birth.

Want to learn more? Join us for a PhD application information session! Interact with faculty and current graduate students! Details: Thursday, September 28th 7-8:30 PM EST
Zoom link: bit.ly/umpsy-phd-zoom

William James College, located in Newton, Mass., offers graduate, undergraduate, and certificate programs across many disciplines in psychology and behavioral health. We look for passionate students who are dedicated to a career helping others and want a robust, experiential learning environment.

If this sounds like someone you know, forward this email and encourage them to register for our October Open House on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

Register for our open house.