Advising

Program Advisors

To best facilitate communication with your advisors, we ask that you contact advisors based on the first letter of your last name. It is often helpful to bring a completed Psychology Major or Concentration checklist to every meeting with your advisor.  

To best facilitate communication with your advisors, we ask that you contact advisors based on the first letter of your last name. It is often helpful to bring a completed Psychology Major or Concentration checklist to every meeting with your advisor.  

To best facilitate communication with your advisors, we ask that you contact advisors based on the first letter of your last name. It is often helpful to bring a completed Neuroscience and Behavior checklist to every meeting with your advisor.  

The Neuroscience & Behavior major is a bit unusual in that it is shared between two departments: Psychology and Biological Sciences. For questions related to the Psychology side of the Neuroscience & Behavior major, please contact:

Choose an advisor based on your last name and/or by task.

For questions regarding the Biology side of the Neuroscience & Behavior major, please reach out to your advisor in Biological Sciences, listed here.

Meet our new Cognitive Science Advisors! 

We have five new advisors from across the university who are experts in our cognitive science specializations. They can help you with planning and approving your courses, identifying potential research opportunities, and figuring out what is next after graduation. Meet them below:  

Andrew Souther, Economics
[email protected]
Third-year PhD student in the Economics department. Main area of research is behavioral economics.

Sid Sharma, Computer Science
[email protected]
Second-year PhD student in the Computer Science department. Works on AI applications in Human-Computer Interaction.

Fred Waine, Linguistics
[email protected]
Second-year PhD student in the French department. Research interests in modern literature and linguistics.

Aaron Wang, Philosophy
[email protected]
Fourth-year PhD student in the philosophy department. Works in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI.

Arlene Lormestoire, Cognitive Neuroscience 
[email protected]
Sixth-year PhD student in the Psychology department. Research broadly investigates memory consolidation and decision-making.

Please reach out to the one who most closely matches your concentration for help with course planning and approvals. Prof. Rebecca Martin, the Cognitive Science DUS is also happy to help [email protected]

Other Advising

Prof. Patricia Lindemann

For any questions or concerns related to courses, teaching, and teaching assistants in the department, you can reach out to Prof. Lindemann (for course planning questions) or Prof. Fox-Glassman (for TA- and teaching-related questions).

  • Students who are interested in pursuing advanced coursework and possible careers in clinical psychology should contact our pre-clinical advisors, Prof. Jeffrey Cohen ([email protected]) and Prof. Hannah Hoch ([email protected]). Profs Cohen and Hoch host several events for students interested in clinical psychology, e.g., on how to apply to PhD or PsyD programs, career opportunities in clinical psychology, and how to get involved in research. Please join our preclinical advising email list to find out more.

Peer Advisors are students who are majoring in Psychology or in Neuroscience and Behavior and who have volunteered their time and energy to the creation and implementation of a Psychology Peer Advising Network. The charge for Peer Advisors is to provide a resource of accurate information for students while also devising new and more effective ways to facilitate contact between majors and faculty advisors.

Peer Advisors are well informed of the department's requirements and policies, they are comfortable working with both faculty and students, and they are interested in overseeing new programs and events to better inform majors of opportunities within the Department of Psychology.

Psychology:

Una Aleksic
Maya Nicole Holloman
Elina Karimlou
Vishwa Shankar
Xavier Terminello
Alexandra Vasilkovsky
Cillian Wang

Neuroscience & Behavior:

Sebastian David-Mercado
Tara Lago
Yinfu Lyu
Noora Nizar

*View Peer Advisor Office Hours here*
 

If you are interested in applying to be a Peer Advisor, please click here for more information and an application form.

The Undergraduate Curriculum Assistant (UCA) is available if you need any assistance with the administrative aspects of your degree. The UCA can address questions concerning transfer credits, science requirement fulfillment, major/concentration requirements, and other administrative matters.