Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

Is this email not displaying correctly? Click here to open in your web browser.

You can see past newsletters here.

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.

Spring 2024 pre-registration information has been sent. Please check your email for instructions to resolve your enrollment (ADV) hold.

The SHRS Health Professions Experience (HPE) resource allows students to explore opportunities for gaining exposure (through shadow, volunteer or work experience) to a variety of health professions. The site was designed to be nimble and use crowdsourced information to build a robust database that includes hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, community health centers, schools and other facilities that provide health care and related experiences.

Students who plan to apply to our SHRS graduate programs may require observational hours and this resource lists the specific requirements for each of our graduate programs.  This resource would also serve as a guide for students exploring different careers in health care.

I am reaching out to you about the Pitt2Pitt Scholarship that provides up to a $7,500 tuition scholarship per year when any Pitt graduating senior or alumni enrolls in one of 85+ participating Pitt graduate or professional degree programs. We would like you to share this good news with the students that you advise!

If your students have additional questions about the academic programs and scholarship guidelines, they can reach out directly to the academic program (the list of academic programs is at the bottom of the website, Pitt2Pitt Scholarship). Each graduate program will provide a minimum of two terms of scholarships: $2,500 per term for full-time students and $1,250 per term for part-time students. Many programs offer scholarships beyond the two-term minimum.

To support undergraduate students in their decision-making process about graduate school we are offering two types of events.

Pitt2Pitt Virtual Workshop: Exploring Graduate Education at Pitt 
October 3, 12:30 p.m.to 1:45 p.m. or December 7, 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
The David C. Frederick Honors College and the Office of the Provost - Graduate Studies invites all students and alumni to join us for the virtual workshop: Exploring Graduate Education at Pitt. The workshop will facilitate a discussion around determining if graduate school is right for you, how to select and fund graduate school, and how to assemble a competitive graduate school application. The workshop is offered virtually. Register for the workshop here. Read more About Pitt2Pitt and the Pitt2Pitt Scholarship. Questions? Graduate@pitt.edu

Pitt2Pitt Graduate Education Fair
October 18, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Alumni Hall
The Office of the Provost - Graduate Studies is hosting a graduate education fair for you to learn more about the 80+ masters and professional degree programs that participate in the Pitt2Pitt Scholarship program. Gifts and refreshments will be provided to all registrants. 
Register for the Education Fair here. Read more About Pitt2Pitt and the Pitt2Pitt Scholarship. Questions? Graduate@pitt.edu

In an era of endless distraction, the ability to focus is more valuable than ever. Finding Focus is a research-backed tool that helps students concentrate. It’s developed by researchers at UT Austin and UC Santa Barbara. Finding Focus helps you transform the work that you already have to do into an opportunity to improve your ability to focus. The app is 100% free. Check it out via the Finding Focus website, iOS app, or Android app.

Did you know USF recently launched a fully online Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling and Disability Sciences (RCDS) which trains individuals to work with persons with physical, mental, emotional, and chemical disabilities.

The RCDS program training emphasizes psychological, social, medical, and vocational aspects of disability, and the development and refinement of personal adjustment counseling skills. Graduates with this M.A. are prepared for careers as both rehabilitation counselors and professional disability specialists. 

We also recently hosted a virtual information session for anyone interested in learning more about this graduate degree program.  For more information, email cbcs-rcds@usf.edu.

A full-time research technician is being sought to support multiple NIH-funded projects in the labs of Dr. Pearl Chiu (lab information) and Dr. Brooks Casas (lab information) at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion in Roanoke, Virginia. Projects in the labs are highly interdisciplinary and combine methods from experimental and clinical psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics with functional neuroimaging and electrochemistry to investigate decisionmaking in healthy and clinical populations. The research technician will be responsible for in-vitro data collection to inform in-vivo models of human neurochemistry.

Please apply at: https://jobs.vt.edu (Job No: 526629)
Pre-submission inquiries with CV may be emailed to:
Carey Caldwell (ccaldwell@vtc.vt.edu)
Lab Manager for Dr. Brooks Casas and Dr. Pearl Chiu

RTI's Mental Health, Risk, and Resilience Research Program has an immediate opening for a Bachelor’s-level Public Health Analyst to support our prevention and evaluation work in the areas of mental health, particularly helping coordinate NIMH funded R01 research studies focused on the development of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and children, and may also involve supporting other projects focused on disadvantaged populations; school-based violence prevention; research on boys and men of color; research on the effects of trauma and exposure to violence; intervention development and implementation science; social and emotional learning; and teen dating violence prevention.

The position will include a broad range of responsibilities in project administration and research/evaluation. The position requires background or training in one or more of the Program’s topical and technical areas of focus, as well as attention to detail, excellent organization, communication skills, comfort interacting with parents and youth, and the ability to function both independently and in teams.

Details can be found our our website.