Student Research Opportunities

Student Research Conferences     Undergraduate Research Journals

• PSY 490: This psychology class can be taken to receive 1-3 hours of course credit for participation in a research project. Learn more . . .
• Kentucky Young Scientist Summer Research Program, University of Kentucky. The program provides summer research opportunities for diverse and other under-represented groups of Kentucky residents in the life, medical and social sciences. Participants will work on research projects designed to enable them to experience the intellectual excitement and satisfaction of research. In addition, the program will provide full participation in the academic interchange of seminars, discussion groups and lectures. Students will interact with graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists and faculty in a working environment. They will experience life as a graduate student lives it in a research university setting. Learn more . . .
• Psychology and Law REU Program at University of Nebraska. Learn more . . .
• Weber State University REU program: The program focus is on Circadian Desynchronization of Military and Law Enforcement Personnel through Shift Work. This program will provide support for ten students to conduct full-time (ten weeks) research collaboratively with a faculty member at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, during the summer of 2005. Learn more . . .
• Clemson University REU Program: The Department of Psychology at Clemson University Summer Program in Applied Psychology provides paid research experience in Human Factors, Industrial/Organizational, and Health Pyschology. Learn more. . .
• University of Illinois at Chicago Summer undergraduate research program in the areas of Animal Behavior and Neurobiology. Learn more . . .
• Northwestern University REU Program on Culture, Language, and Cognition. Learn more. . .
• University of South Carolina REU Program in Experimental Psychology: Learn more . . .
• University of Wisconsin REU Program in Psychology. Learn more. . .
• National Science Foundation REU Program page: Search for REU sites in psychology and other disciplines.
• Davidson College summer internship at Broughton Hospital in Morganton, N.C.: Participants work with hospital professionals as observers and assistants in patient treatment programs. Learn more . . .

Student Research Conferences

• 2007 KPA Spring Academic Conference, March 31,University of Kentucky Student Center. Undergraduate and graduate poster competitions and a non-juried student poster session. Learn more . . .

• Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference (MAUPRC), Saturday, April 12, 2008, Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky. Undergraduates are invited to present their research and ideas in a convention format. Empirical, theoretical, and review papers are eligible for submission. Each paper must be sponsored by a faculty member.

Undergraduate Journals

• Journal of Psychological Inquiry: The Journal of Psychological Inquiry encourages undergraduate students to submit manuscripts for consideration. Manuscripts may include empirical studies, literature reviews, and historical articles; manuscripts may cover any topical area in the psychological sciences. 

• Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research. The Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research encourages undergraduate students to submit manuscripts for consideration. Submissions are accepted for review on an ongoing basis. Although manuscripts are limited to empirical research, they may cover any topical area in the psychological sciences.

• Modern Psychological Studies - A journal devoted to publishing research by undergraduates in Psychology. The journal seeks high quality manuscripts for publication. MPS will consider manuscripts in any area of psychology, although they are primarily interested in results from experimental research, they are also interested in theoretical papers, literature reviews, and book reviews. The journal encourages all undergraduates who think their paper is exceptionally well written to submit it for publication.