Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

The Psychology Department will host a celebratory reception for candidates on Friday, April 26th (late afternoon; exact time TBD). December 2023 graduates and August 2024 candidates are invited to attend. This is not a formal graduation ceremony, but a reception with food and music where you and your family can celebrate with faculty and other students. Invitations and updates will be sent via your Pitt email as they are available.

Please visit our webpage for additional details and updates. 

2/12/2024          Summer term 2227 enrollment begins
3/8/2024            Deadline to submit final exam conflict form
3/8/2024            Deadline to submit monitored withdrawal form
3/8/2024            Last day to resign from all classes - partial refund
3/10-17/2024     Spring break for all students - no classes
3/25/2024          Fall term enrollment appointments begin
4/5/2024            Last day to withdraw from all classes

Visit the Announcement Archive page for additional information, dates, and dealines.

Thursday, February 22, 2024
6 – 8 p.m.
Location: Posvar Hall 5601 in the Dean’s Colloquium Room

Any current Pitt student, high school student, community college student, and student enrolled in another university is welcome and encouraged to attend. Learn about our degrees and minors, meet our program faculty, and ask questions on any topic including scholarships, the application, and the student experience.

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Undergraduate students who are enrolled in the Fall 2024 term and committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion are encouraged to apply for the APA SUPER Fellowship, which provides a $4,000 stipend to the student to conduct summer laboratory research and $1,000 to their faculty host. All areas of psych science are welcome!  Applications are due March 1, 2024 - apply here!

SUPER is just one of the awards and funding opportunities offered by APA’s Science Directorate. View all of them, including those for students and career researchers, at apa.org/science/awards.

Conversations to Remember, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, dedicated towards combating loneliness and isolation felt by senior citizens. We are very interested in partnering with you to have your students volunteer with us to help these seniors. Our virtual visit program matches 2-3 college students with residents of long-term care, assisted living, and memory care communities for virtual video visits. These residents have been suffering from isolation, and your students could really brighten their days just by speaking with them. We provide training to the students in the program about the best ways to interact with the seniors, as well as additional support throughout their service. Since these visits are virtual, your students can do it without any travel. This is both convenient, and allows more of the volunteers' time to be spent volunteering, rather than commuting to their volunteering location. We provide this program free of charge to seniors across the country, and have students from around the country as well. We would very much like to partner with you, and hope that your students would like to volunteer to help our seniors.

Typically, students volunteer 1-2 hours per week. Each call lasts up to one hour, based on the senior's attention span and mood on each day. We expect students to volunteer for approximately 16 weeks, so that they can build a friendship with the senior. This does not need to coincide with the start of a semester, as we have new seniors starting all the time, and train new volunteers weekly. The students are matched based on the times that they're available, with a senior who is available at the same time, and they will have a regular, weekly appointment for their visit. Students wishing for more visits or other opportunities that allow them to volunteer more hours can be accommodated with different ways to volunteer, such as assisting us with our social media, call support, or outreach.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions that you have about the program, or to look through our website, at https://conversationstoremember.org. Your students can register to volunteer by filling out a volunteer interest form on our website. If you'd like a flyer to tell your students about us, you can find one here.

The Psychosocial Research Program at Butler Hospital is looking to hire full-time research assistants to work on studies related to psychosocial interventions for a variety of clinical populations recruited from a psychiatric hospital setting (i.e., people with major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and comorbid substance use disorders). The research assistant will primarily work on randomized controlled trials testing the effectiveness and implementation of novel transitions of care interventions for people being discharged from a psychiatric hospital to improve recovery. These include therapist-administered and mHealth-focused interventions. There also is a strong emphasis on suicide prevention in this work.

Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in psychology, neuroscience, or related field by the start of the position. The position is particularly attractive for those wishing to pursue graduate or medical school in the future. Opportunities to publish papers and present at professional conferences are available and encouraged. Our previous research assistants have been highly successful in gaining acceptance to top-tier doctoral programs in clinical psychology and related fields after completing the position.

The position is available for start in the summer of 2024. For more information, please refer to the Dr. Brandon Gaudiano’s faculty profile at: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/bgaudian. We strongly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply as we strive to build an inclusive and creative culture for the benefit of both our staff and our patients.

Email a cover letter and CV/resume to Ms. Toni Amaral: TAmaral@Butler.org

The Department of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine is currently accepting applications for their post-baccalaureate program; the deadline to apply for Fall 2024 is April 15, 2024 for domestic students (February 15, 2024 for international students).

Program Overview:  UCI’s Post-Bacc Program in Psychological Science is a certificate program that combines psychology coursework with research and/or internship experience. It is designed for people who have a bachelor’s degree (in any discipline); who are interested in a psychology-related graduate program, career development, or career change; and who could benefit from additional coursework, research and/or real-life work experience in psychology. Those interested in a doctoral-level or master’s degree programs in a range of areas of psychology (including clinical/counseling psychology, social/personality psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, psychology & the law, and school psychology) or health (e.g., public health, medical school) can strengthen their graduate school applications by completing our program, which offers an individualized course of study based on each person’s qualifications and goals.

Applications:  Applications are due on April 15, 2024 for domestic students (February 15, 2024 for international students) for Fall 2024 admission.  For more information, please visit:  https://ps.soceco.uci.edu/post-bacc-page/post-baccalaureate-program-psychological-science
Information Session:  An information session will be held on Friday, February 9th at 1pm (Pacific Time) via zoom: https://uci.zoom.us/j/99501658951.  If you are thinking about applying and/or would like to learn more, you are encouraged to attend.  All are welcome!

The Center for Autism at Children’s National Hospital is seeking applications for a full-time Research Coordinator. Our research programs focus on improving outcomes in young people, including:

• Autism spectrum disorders and broader neurodiversity
• Executive functioning and intervention development across the lifespan
• Intervention implementation in school settings
• Understanding and supporting transition to adulthood for autistic teens
• Cognitive phenotypes and gender and assigned sex differences
• Addressing disparities in access to care

How to Apply: Applications are due ASAP and qualified applicants will be invited for virtual interviews (onsite visits can be arranged by request). We have an online portal for submitting your documents or you can email them.

Access the Application and Online Portal: Application Portal Here

Any questions should be addressed to:
Alyssa Verbalis, PhD (she/her/hers)
Email (preferred): autism@childrensnational.org