Top students are invited to join our Honors program in which students take specialized courses and submit an honors thesis prepared with the sponsorship of a faculty member. Complete requirements are in the CAS Bulletin . There are several ways to get involved in research at the NYU Psychology Department. These include expanding a project started in a lab course, or simply volunteering to work with a faculty member. Each term, a booklet is issued listing about 60 potential research sponsors, with brief project descriptions and contact information.
Students choose a sponsor with whom they share interests.
The student forms a research team with an NYU faculty member, an advanced graduate student, a research scientist, or with outside sponsors at various medical schools, hospitals or other NY-area institutions. There are brief writing assignments to relate the student's research project to the technical information in the lectures and text. Students give brief talks on their projects and write an APA-style research report. Students are encouraged and helped to polish these talks and reports for presentations at the NYU Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference, and at professional conferences such as the Eastern Psychological Association Meetings. All of these student research activities are helpful in gaining admission to strong graduate programs.