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Congratulations to the First Psychology Undergraduate Research and Service Grant (URSG) Award Recipients, January 2018 Competition. The next competition deadline will be in mid-April!

Katie Allison: Funds to cover transportation costs for her work with the Metropolitan Police Department as a Domestic Violence Liaison. This internship will place Katie in the community, engaging in an outreach/support program in her area of interest, law enforcement. Specifically, she will go with police on domestic violence calls and assist with survivors; she is doing this in conjunction with Dr. Lambert’s Psyc 3592 (Field Internship).

Ashley Cheng: Work-study funding to allow her to be actively involved in developing, designing, and conducting a study within Dr. Shomstein’s lab. She will work with graduate student Joe Nah and Dr. Shomstein to develop, carry out, and analyze a study examining how semantic knowledge can affect visual attention—e.g., how presentation of the word “mixer” affects processing of baking-related items in a kitchen scene. Ashley has been learning how to program in Python in preparation.

Jacqueline Mai: For transportation costs to allow her to participate in a Research Assistantship at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) Laboratory for the Treatment of Suicide-related Ideation and Behavior. She will be working on a randomized clinical trial for military psychiatric inpatients. And will also carry out a literature review on humanistic cognitive behavioral therapy in conjunction with this work and a Psyc 3591 supervised research course co-mentored by Margaret Baer of USUHS and Dr. Sigelman.

John “Jack” Venezia: Funds to assist in paying for additional research participants in graduate student Meagan Ryan’s dissertation research in Dr. Rohrbeck’s lab. Jack assisted Meagan in identifying measures for her dissertation and also added a "Meaning of Life" Questionnaire to her research protocol with the goal of carrying out his own substudy of how "meaning of life" moderates associations between trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among undergraduate veterans.

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Internship at the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute (ANDI)

We are looking for responsible and committed students to assist with research at the ANDI. Student interns can request to receive course credit for interning !
Join our research team and gain hands-on experience with Autism research, in particular with organizing and conducting behavioral and neuroscientific experiments. Student interns will increase their familiarity with individuals with autism, as well as neuroscientific methods, including EEG and fMRI. Weekly hours are flexible.
Applicants must:
- Be able to commit for the duration of a semester
- Have good oral and written communication skills
- Has basic knowledge on research methods
Prior experience with programming/data analysis, conducting research,
or working with children with special needs is welcome but not
required. Please submit a resume and cover letter to the address below.
Contact: Callie Stezar at autism@gwu.edu

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Are you thinking about a doctoral degree in psychology?

Do you want to learn more?

Diversifying Psychology Visit Day

Department of Psychology, University of Virginia

This event is for research-oriented, junior and senior undergraduate students and recent graduates from underrepresented groups (e.g., students who identify as a historically underrepresented ethnic/racial minority or who are the first in their family to attend college) who want to learn more about getting a doctoral degree in psychology and the Psychology Department at UVA (http://psychology.as.virginia.edu/).

Accepted students will have their travel, meal, and hotel costs covered to spend the day visiting the department on April 20th, 2018.

The visit will include:

·       individual and small group meetings with professors to discuss students’ intellectual interests

·       attending research presentations and lab meetings

·       information on applying to graduate school, funding opportunities, mentoring, and student life

·       information session with the Director of Diversity and Inclusion and the Director of Clinical Training

·       networking with current graduate students

·       a tour of campus

To apply: students should send:

1) 1-2 paragraphs describing their research experience and interests, as well as how their research interests align with 1-2 faculty members in the UVA Psychology Department (http://psychology.as.virginia.edu/people), and why they want to attend the Visit Day
2) an unofficial copy of their transcript
3) their CV or resume
3) 1 letter of recommendation that speaks to their capacity for graduate study in psychology (letter writers can submit their letter directly to psychology@virginia.edu)

Please submit all materials by email to psychology@virginia.edu  

Note, students who applied last year but were not invited to the visit day are encouraged to apply again.

Deadline: Applications are due by February 1st, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. EST.

Questions? Email Dr. Bethany Teachman, Professor and Director of Diversity and Inclusion, at bat5x@virginia.edu, or Jason Sumontha, Graduate Student and Diversity and Inclusion Graduate Fellow, at js4qp@virginia.edu.

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