Weekly Opportunities

Welcome to Spring 2025 Weekly Opportunities:

Psych Weekly Opportunities will be posted weekly on Wednesdays during the semester.

For a full listing of recent opportunities, view our Live Documents, where our team is always compiling postings that come our way. You can also find these on our Weekly Opps page by scrolling to the bottom of the page.

'Live Document' Links:

• Course Opportunities
• Internships & Volunteering Opportunities
• Miscellaneous Opportunities
• Work Opportunities

IMPORTANT PSYCH SSO ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Connect with Psych Academic Advising: We are here to provide guidance, support, information, and referrals.

• Appointment Info: Academic Advising
• Drop-in Peer Advising: Find the weekly schedule here!
• Contact us at: psychsso@berkeley.edu
• Follow us on social media! Instagram:@ucbpsychadvising

Summer 2025 Info Sessions Materials:

Link to Presentation: Info Session Slides

If you would like a recording of the presentation (not captioned) or need to meet with an advisor, please email: psychsso@berkeley.edu

Peer Advisor Workshop Series: 

We have one final workshop for the semester!

Next Up: Stress Management and Mental Health Resources during Exam Season

Led by: Peer Advisor Neal 

Date: Thursday, April 24th

Time:  3:00-4:00PM 

Zoom Meeting ID: 931 6498 2322

CAMPUS REMINDERS:

Office of the Registrar Enrollment Calendar: Take a look at the enrollment dates and deadlines for this term. This includes, but is not limited to: the last days to add a course, drop a course, elect P/NP grading, and more!

Summer Sessions Enrollment for 2025 is now open! Register for courses through the enrollment center, for more information visit: summer.berkeley.edu

Fall 2025 course offerings are now available. Get ready to schedule your courses. Phase I times will begin in mid April! View course offerings on: classes.berkeley.edu

WEEKLY OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS:

1. 2025 Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship,  Apply by 05/01/2025

The Simons Foundation is accepting applications from undergraduate students for the 2025 Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN).

The goal of the SURFiN Program is to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research opportunities. Fellowships start in September 2025.

Applications and letters of recommendation are due at 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern Time on May 1, 2025. Please see the request for applications (RFA) for details, application instructions, and the location of SURFiN lab opportunities.

Information Session:
We encourage interested undergraduate students to attend a virtual informational webinar on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Students can register for the webinar now.

Program:
SURFiN provides funds for paid, in-person undergraduate research assistantships during the academic year. Fellows may earn up to $7,500 USD at a rate of $25/hour for 10 hours a week over 30 weeks during the academic year. Fellows receive direct mentorship and participate in career development activities, including a virtual coding bootcamp and a scientific symposium in New York City.

Applicants must currently live within commuting distance of a SURFiN lab opportunity. Participating labs are located across the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Please contact neurogrants@simonsfoundation.org with questions about the progra

2. BCE Career Engagement Internship Success Sessions

For students looking for summer internships, we're hosting a number of "Internship Success Sessions" where students can drop in for real-time support and feedback on their applications.       

These sessions are held:
- Thursday, April 17th from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Thursday, May 15th from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Thursday, May 29th from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

More information about the program could be found on this interest form.

3. SPARC 2025 Student Research Conference, Event on April 23rd, 2025

The 2025 SPARC will take place on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in the SJSU Dias Compean Student Union Meeting Rooms 1B & 4AB.

This year marks the 68th anniversary of SPARC, a longstanding research tradition organized by the Psi Chi International Honor Society and Psychology Department at SJSU.  Since 1957, SPARC has offered undergraduate and graduate psychology students the experience of presenting their research.  Over the years, SPARC has grown into one of the preeminent regional forums for student presentations in psychology and related fields.

Conference presentations will begin as early as 9:10am and will consist of a series of oral presentations, interspersed with three 50-minute poster sessions at 10:50am, 12:20pm, and at 2:50pm.  We are also excited to host two 60-minute Lightning Talks sessions, at 9:50am and 1:10pm, featuring 5-minute research briefs from our graduate students in psychology. 

We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating the impressive research efforts of graduate and undergraduate students.  We are expecting a great turnout of talks and posters from researchers at SJSU, the SF Bay area, and beyond. 

Certainly, the highlight of our day will be our keynote address, titled “Do you know what you're getting out of your degree in psychology?” by Dr. Jennifer Dyer-Seymour from CSU Monterey Bay.  In this talk, Dr. Deyer-Seymour will discuss the research on college graduates’ foundational skills, such as writing, critical thinking, and collaboration.  U.S. and European employers rate many new collegiate hires’ skills as less than “very proficient,” and U.S. graduate psychology programs cite “poorly written” materials as applicants’ number one fatal flaw.   Focusing on new data out of her lab, Dr. Dyer-Seymour will show the relationship between students’ perceptions about how much their skills have improved during college and how much the students think about learning goals when they study. 

*The keynote address will begin at 3:45pm.

For more information, please visit the SPARC event page here

4. Applications for Jengyee Prize Now Open! (4/22/25)

The essay must address the following topic: As individuals, we can make the world better in big ways that are often part of a larger, organized effort, or in smaller ways that are consequences of individual choices and actions over a lifetime. Please describe (a) what you, as an individual, have done to make the world a better place; (b) what you have learned from these experiences; and (c) how you see this trajectory extending into the future.

Please address all three questions in the same essay. The activities need not be of a humanitarian nature. The committee would be interested in hearing about technical, social, and other types of activities and advancements through which you have made the world a better place.

Applications must be submitted as a single PDF to Prof. Candace Yano at yano@ieor.berkeley.edu by the deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 4 PM PT

5. Weekly Health Tip 

6. Important Berkeley Way West (BWW) Reminders:

• It is critical that everyone accessing the building after hours or entering key-carded areas of the building be sure to tag (use key card) to access these spaces for themselves, when at Berkeley Way West. This especially applies after hours and at all times to any floors and interior spaces that require key card access.
• Those with key card access are not permitted to allow others into these secured spaces (tail-gating) for any reason and will lose after-hours access to BWW if they are found breaking this policy.
• BWW recently sustained extensive damage last year due to a breach of this policy. Your adherence to this policy will contribute to our community safety and security.