PSYC UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP SITES DIRECTORY

UCLA

Mission: The UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI) sponsors a summer undergraduate research experience (BRI-SURE) pathway program for students currently participating in the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) and other honors research programs whose goal is to increase diversity. BRI-SURE Pathway is an 8-10 week, intensive summer research-training program for exceptional students interested in pursuing research careers in Neuroscience or Physiology. The program is designed to provide a rigorous, in-depth research experience to prepare participants for top-quality Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. graduate programs. The BRI-SURE residential program offers a summer stipend. The BRI-SURE non-residential program does not offer a summer stipend

Website: https://bri.ucla.edu/outreach/bri-sure-summer/ 

Agency Contact: Larone Ellison,  BRISURE Program Coordinator, larone@lifesci.ucla.edu

Pittsburgh, PA

Mission: PIER’s SPUR program allows talented undergraduates to spend 8 weeks during the summer in a research laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.  Each student will receive a fellowship stipend of $3,000 and apartment-style housing will be provided. Guidance and supervision of the research project will be provided by a faculty member as well as, in some cases, a postdoctoral fellow and/or advanced graduate student.  Admitted students will also participate in the Go Research! Summer Program at CMU.  A Summer Seminar Series is provided for all students to help prepare for graduate education and research careers.

Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/psychology/spur/index.html

Agency Contact: Anna Fisher, Director, Summer Program for Undergraduate Researchers fisher49@andrew.cmu.edu

Duke University

Durham, NC

Mission: The Duke Psychology and Neuroscience REU provides underrepresented students with the skills, socialization, connection, and continuity to begin developing a scholar-researcher identity. This REU offers a unique research experience using a combination of methodological approaches across the life-span and across areas of psychology: Developmental, Social, and Cognitive Neuroscience. During this REU, students will get hands-on experience conducting experimental and observational research in addition to individually-tailored academic writing and GRE preparation sessions. A program goal is to enhance undergraduates’ future applications to graduate school in psychology or a related field.

Website: https://sites.duke.edu/reupsychneuro/

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Agency Contact:  Raisa Ahmed, program coordinator, Raisa.ahmed@duke.edu or Talita Ahmed, talita.ahmed@duke.edu

Washington, DC

Mission: We are a comparative psychology research group that explores the evolution of cognition. We do this by comparing the cognitive abilities of humans to non-humans – specifically dogs. This is because dogs and humans share some rudimentary cognitive abilities that may be the result of our shared environment.

Website:  https://blogs.gwu.edu/ccas-doglab/for-students/

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Agency Contact:  canine.cognition@gwu.edu

UC Irvine

Irvine, CA

Mission: The Irvine Interdisciplinary Internship in Neuroscience program will provide an intensive research training and professional development experience for undergraduates interested in interdisciplinary neuroscience research. The program is open to undergraduates of all backgrounds with a particular emphasis on women and individuals from under-represented backgrounds in STEM disciplines. The research focus is to understand the neurobiological mechanisms of learning and memory in healthy normal development as well as the biology of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders that alter learning and memory. Travel, housing and meals covered plus stipend.

Website: https://cnlm.uci.edu/reu/ 

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Agency Contact:  Manuella Oliveira Yassa, program director, manuella.yassa@uci.edu

Baltimore, MD

Mission: Summer interns participate fully in all aspects of research, including recruiting participants, testing infants and children in behavioral tasks, coding and analyzing data, and interpreting and presenting results. Interns also participate in guided readings of developmental literature, and attend laboratory meetings where we discuss ongoing projects or current issues in the field of cognitive development. Students will work primarily in the Psychological & Brain Sciences building of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and may also work at our testing site at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Agency Website: https://labforchilddevelopment.com/

Agency Contact: Alexis Smith, Laboratory Manager, jhulcdapplications@gmail.com

Pittsburgh, PA

Mission: Kurtz Psychology hosts a limited number of undergraduates for unpaid summer internships. This internship is designed primarily for advanced undergraduates as a pre-professional mental health training experience in research and clinical behavioral interventions. Interns participate in our didactic trainings and seminars. Interns are assigned a mentor and will assist with a research project to be worked on during the summer. Interns also are actively involved as counselors in our flagship selective mutism program – Mighty Mouth Kids Camp, as well as being heavily involved in the day-to-day work of our practice. Interns will routinely be able to observe live treatment sessions of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).

Agency Website: https://www.kurtzpsychology.com/

Agency Contact: training@kurtzpsychology.com

Pittsburgh, PA

Mission: The Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking summer undergraduate interns to promote broader participation in training in the Learning Sciences. The University aims to bring students to LRDC who embody the diversity of our nation, region, and city. LRDC interns would gain experience in the Learning Sciences (research on instruction and learning) by working on a project with a faculty member who specializes in this area. Interns may also work with advanced graduate students or postdoctoral fellows in the faculty members' labs. For a list of potential faculty mentors and research topics, click HERE. Room and board provided.

Agency Website: https://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/

Agency Contact: Tom Nokes-Malach, Intern Program Director, nokes@pitt.edu

UPenn

Philadelphia, PA

Mission: The MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program is a paid 10-week program for both Penn and non-Penn undergraduate students. Summer Fellows are matched with select MindCORE faculty in interdisciplinary mind and brain studies based on student research interest and mentor preference. With their mentors, students embark on a research project shaped as much as possible by their interests. 

Agency Website: https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/research/summer/

Agency Contact: imbsummerfellows@sas.upenn.edu 

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Madison, WI

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Mission: PREP provides intensive mentoring and experience in scientific research and professional development to undergraduates from historically underrepresented populations who have expressed and demonstrated an interest in a career in scientific psychology. PREP is unique in that we have a focus on integrating principles and methods of data science into the study of psychology and neuroscience. The program features a balance of mentored laboratory research alongside: intensive “bootcamps” on technical skills (e.g., R and Python programming), faculty presentations, professional development and networking opportunities.

Agency Website: https://psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site-psychology-research-experience-program/

Agency Contact: PREP@psych.wisc.edu 

Toronto, CA

Mission: The SROP seeks to ultimately diversify faculty by providing undergraduate students who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (BIPOC) equitable access to graduate school preparation, planning, and admission.  Students will gain independent research experience & mentorship, GRE preparation, professional development, graduate school application support.

Agency Website: https://canadasrop.ca/students/

Agency Contact: canadasrop@utoronto.ca 

Pace University NYC Campus

Mission: The Counseling Center at Pace University's New York City campus offers four undergraduate psychology summer internship positions each year. The goal of the training program is to provide summer interns with the opportunity to experience, under supervision, the diverse functions of a professional psychologist in a university counseling center. Training includes didactic seminars, scholarly research, outreach and consultation, and exposure to clinical work. Must be rising senior. 

Agency Website: https://www.pace.edu/counseling/psychology-training-programs/undergraduate-summer-internship 

Agency Contact: pacesummerinternship@gmail.com

Pace University NYC Campus

Mission: The Maryland Summer Scholars Program (MSS) provides opportunities for University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) undergraduates to spend much of the summer working closely with faculty mentors on ambitious research, scholarly, or artistic projects. Scholars may conduct their summer research on the College Park campus or elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad as required by the nature of the project. 

Agency Website: https://mcur.umd.edu/mcur-programs/maryland-summer-scholars

Agency Contact:  ugresearch@umd.edu