Psychology Undergraduate Student Handbook

Twenty-one full-time faculty, representing seven major specialties in psychology (clinical, cognitive, developmental, industrial-organizational, neuroscience, quantitative, and social) maintain diverse ongoing research programs leading to publication in scholarly journals. Many faculty are (or have been) recipients of extramural research grants, journal editors or members of editorial boards, elected or appointed to officer positions in national scholarly organizations, and expert reviewers to granting agencies.

All full-time faculty possess a Ph.D. degree and are involved in the undergraduate program as course instructors, career advisors, and research sponsors. Most of our lower-division courses are regularly taught by senior level faculty, and several departmental faculty have authored text books appropriate for undergraduate instruction.

The scholarly achievements of many of the psychology faculty were instrumental in the founding of a Sigma Xi chapter at BGSU.

To learn more about Department of Psychology faculty, visit the faculty webpage.

The Psychology Department is housed in the five story Psychology Building, which was designed especially for psychology instruction and research. The building is located on the far north end of the BGSU campus, just across a parking lot from the Offenhauer Towers.

The first floor of the building contains classrooms, office space for faculty and graduate students, a computer lab for instruction (Room 103), an open computer lab (Room 120), and the undergraduate student lounge (Room 131). Feel free to use the lounge to study or hang out.

The second floor contains faculty and graduate student offices and the department’s Main Office (Room 206). Vending machines and several bulletin boards of general interest are also located on the second floor.

The third floor also contains faculty and graduate student offices, as well as the Psychological Services Center (Room 388), the Institute for Psychological Research and Application (IPRA), and the J. P. Scott Center for Neuroscience conference room.

The fourth floor houses laboratories for conducting research in a variety of areas of psychology, including addiction, behavioral medicine, cognitive science, developmental psychology, and family interaction.

The fifth floor is dedicated to research in behavioral neuroscience, which involves studying animals. Access to the fifth floor and its histological, radiological, biochemical, electrophysiological, and surgical suites is restricted.