Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

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

We are looking for organized, motivated undergraduate psychology students with excellent attention to detail to assist in our lab for the 2024-2025 academic year (and possibly beyond!).  Students will be working on a federally-funded study examining 2 psychotherapy interventions aiming to prevent or delay psychopathology among the adolescent offspring of parents diagnosed with bipolar disorder.  Students will be trained to assist with study screening procedures; data entry and management; and other study tasks.

In the lab, you will work as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals led by Dr. Tina Goldstein PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Days and hours are flexible; a minimum 2 days/week (total 6 hours) commitment during the semester is required, and our work is primarily conducted in-person at our lab in Bellefield Towers on campus.

Interested individuals please contact Nicole Arnold at: arnoldne@upmc.edu

Conversations to Remember is a 501(c)(3) nonprofi, 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. 

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.

The Summer Research Institute at the Florida Mental Health Institute (SRI@FMHI) deadline is six weeks away! If you have not yet already, please consider notifying your students of this research opportunity. FMHI is inviting undergraduate students interested in substance use and co-occurring disorders research to apply for the University of South Florida's Summer Research Institute funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This 11-week in-person program takes place from May 23, 2024 to August 1, 2024.

For more information and access to our application, please visit:
https://www.usf.edu/cbcs/fmhi/research/summer-research-institute.aspx

Georgia Southern's Experimental Psychology MS program is accepting applications for fall 2024 admission, and the application fee is FREE in February! We focus on experimental psychology and offer a 2-year residential program with careful one-on-one matching of students with faculty members for research and professional development mentorship. Our program also offers an optional teaching emphasis to help prepare our students to teach at the college level.

Our priority deadline is February 15th and our final deadline is April 1st. The application fee is waived from now through Feb. 29th!  https://www.georgiasouthern.edu/cbss/psychology/ms-programs/ms-experimental-psychology/

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 Binghamton Mood Disorders Institute, directed by Dr. Brandon Gibb, is seeking to hire two full-time post-baccalaureate Research Assistants to start as soon as June 3, 2024.  These are a full-time grant-funded positions to assist with an NIMH-funded R01 examining mechanisms of risk for the intergenerational transmission of depression during the transition from childhood to adolescence.  Duties will include coordinating participant recruitment, preparation of study materials, and conducting participant assessments (diagnostic and life events interviews, computer-based and mobile eye tracking, psychophysiology, EEG/ERPs, etc.).  The research assistant will also have opportunities to co-author scientific papers and journal articles.  Salary will be $33,800 per year plus health insurance. For more information about the lab, please visit depression.binghamton.edu

Qualifications include a BA/BS in psychology or other scientific field, including coursework in research methods and/or statistics.  Successful candidates will demonstrate a conscientious work style and strong interpersonal skills. Candidates with experience with eye tracking, EEG/ERP, psychophysiological assessments, and/or structured diagnostic interviewing are particularly encouraged to apply.  This is an excellent position for a college graduate who is interested in gaining additional research experience before going on to graduate study in clinical psychology.

Review of applications begins immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Job posting can be found here. 

For questions, feel free to call Dr. Gibb at bgibb@binghamton.edu

The Cognition, Psychopathology, Environment (CoPE) Lab in the Brandeis University Department of Psychology, directed by Dr. Hannah Snyder, is seeking a full-time Research Assistant for an NIH-funded study investigating risk for anxiety and depression in college students. The Research Assistant will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the lab, including training and supervising student researchers, and will run participants through study protocols, including being trained to administer cognitive assessments, record physiological measures, and conduct clinical diagnostic interviews. They will also be responsible for maintaining IRB protocols and compliance, contacting and scheduling participants for research, managing data (including basic data analysis), purchasing necessary research supplies, and coordinating the work of others in the lab. This position is ideal for individuals interested in applying for PhD programs in the future.

Applications can be submitted here: https://brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Brandeis---Waltham-Campus/Research-Assistant_R0009726-2