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. It is a welcomed by all the professional schools including, medical, dental, law and business. Although graduate training in Clinical Psychology is enormously competitive, many of our students are successful applicants and many more go on to related and more reasonably competitive fields, such as counseling psychology, school psychology, educational psychology, health psychology, and social work. Finally, with the American economy becoming increasingly service oriented, our psychology majors have a broad range of entry level opportunities in fields requiring psychological skills such as management, personnel, human services, marketing, advertisement, sales and public relations.