The purpose of this study is to examine sex differences in social-pragmatic skills or the social use of language in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) children. Data collection will be done entirely online and … Read more
The Penn Lab is hiring undergraduate research assistants to begin in Summer 2022, with opportunities to continue on in the coming academic year. The Penn Lab primarily works with individuals who have experienced their first episode of psychosis (FEP) or … Read more
The Living Focused on Reducing Excessive Eating (F.R.E.E.) Lab is seeking undergraduate and graduate research assistants to support various research projects focused on developing and evaluating interventions to treat disordered eating behaviors in African Americans and those impacted by poverty. … Read more
The Bai Lab ( https://baigroup.org/ ) in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences (https://aps.unc.edu/ ) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is looking for motivated undergraduate students who would be interested in pursuing applied research for improving … Read more
The Aging Brain Clinic is an interdisciplinary clinic (neurology, geriatrics, geropsychiatry, neuropsychology) focused on optimizing cognition to prevent further decline in older adults with cognitive impairment. The clinicians in the clinic all have expertise in managing cognitive impairment and addressing … Read more
The Herman Lab is looking for a sophomore or junior to conduct behavioral neuroscience experiments in our addiction-focused laboratory. Responsibilities include tissue processing, immunohistochemistry, and imaging as well as running drug exposure procedures in rats and mice, and assisting other … Read more
Prof. Pegard and Prof. Rodriguez-Romaguera, faculty members of the Carolina Stress Initiative (https://www.med.unc.edu/psych/csi/) are currently seeking research assistants to develop devices that track arousal in animals and in humans by measuring ocular biometrics. We are looking for undergraduate researchers for … Read more
Research in my lab examines the neural (brain) substrates of complex cognitive functions in children, adolescents and adults. We are particularly interested din brain changes associated with risk for mental illness, such as psychosis and mood disorders, and how stress … Read more
This project is a pilot study aimed at identifying barriers to participation in autism research for Black families of children with autism. This project will use both qualitative (I.e., interviews) and quantitative (i.e., machine learning on extant data) methods to … Read more
The Internet Tobacco Vendor Study (ITVS) is looking for volunteers to assist with site screening, site archiving, and data collection. We have smaller, additional studies that look at other products, such as alcohol and thc, that may also have content … Read more