The psychology department offers numerous types of opportunities to gain research experience in the field of psychology. These opportunities may be anything from volunteer positions, to hourly employment, to guided research through credit.

Undergraduate research credit opportunities include:  

Psych 4990 - Internship (IND 0.0-6.0)

Psych 4099 - Undergraduate Research (IND 0.0-6.0)

For additional research opportunities with individual faculty members, review our faculty profiles to identify faculty you would like to work with. Feel free to email those faculty directly to inquire whether they are working with undergraduate research assistants at this time. Department faculty regularly incorporate undergraduate students into their research labs/teams.

Additionally, students can partner with faculty through college and campus undergraduate research opportunities via the FYRE (First Year Research Experience) and OURE (Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience) programs. 

Department lab spaces include three separate lab areas with over 13 rooms including central rooms for lab meetings, and small and medium size rooms (some with cubicles) for psychological participant experiments. There are workstations for multiple research assistants, equipped with computers and printing capabilities. We utilize a shared space model with centralized scheduling. Our cognition lab consists of two testing rooms (plus additional workspace). One room contains psychophysiological recording equipment (a BIOPAC MP160 system with heart rate, respiration, EDA, and facial EMG) and the other contains functional near-infrared spectroscopy equipment (an 8x16 NIRx NIRSport2 system). Both testing rooms are equipped with stimulus presentation computers as well as data acquisition computers for the physiological and neuroimaging equipment.