The Aging Well Lab in the Center for Vital Longevity at The University of Texas at Dallas, under the direction of Kendra Seaman, Ph.D., is currently seeking to hire a full-time Research Assistant beginning in June 2025. The position is a minimum of a one-year commitment (renewable). 

Good parenting can make all the difference as newborns learn to communicate and process information, and an increasing amount of early-childhood development research has shown that parent training is a worthy investment to improve childhood outcomes.

The Center for Children and Families at Florida International University announces Summer Treatment Program Counselor, Research Assistant, and Teacher/Classroom Aide positions for 2024. Positions are available at our sites in Miami and in Buffalo, NY. More than 100 positions are available. Positions are available for undergraduate students, postbaccalaureate students, and graduate students.

Derek Isaacowitz, professor of psychological and brain sciences, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Mid-Career Trajectory in Affective Science Award. He will receive the honor at the Society for Affective Science’s annual conference in Portland, Oregon, in March.

At his February installation ceremony, the chair of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and professor of radiology presented his lab’s recent work and discussed how people’s memories perform better when they break longer events into shorter pieces, known as segmentation. The way our brains process and organize information can tell us a lot about human development, he said, especially when it is affected by diseases. “I’m in this line of work because I’m captivated by the bare, bald facts of human experience,” Zacks said.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a neural network model to understand the mechanics of how humans concentrate in complex environments. With this task, participants face three distractions from a primary task, mimicking more natural conditions for human concentration. Instead of looking at simple colored words (Stroop task), participants are required to find a target feature among complex stimuli with varying shapes, colors, borders and motion directions. People respond slower when the target is mixed with many distractors. (Image courtesy of Control and Decision Making lab)

The Post-Baccalaureate Program in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine is currently accepting applications for Fall 2025 admissions. Below is information about the program (including details on their upcoming information session), along with a program flyer.

Once again, we are enlisting your help in connecting students with STEM funding and opportunities – such as paid summer research, graduate fellowships, and graduate programs.