Weekly Opportunities

Welcome to Fall 2024 Weekly Opportunities:

Happy Fall semester! Psych Weekly Opportunities is posted weekly on Wednesdays during the semester.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Go Bears, Go Vote! Voter Information

This guide is designed to help Cal students, staff, and faculty get registered to vote, find reliable information about ballot issues and candidates, and how to cast your ballot. Information sources on this guide are from official and non-partisan sources.  To access, please refer to https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/voterinformation/home.

REMINDERS:

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

• Appointment Info: Academic Advising
• Contact us at: psychsso@berkeley.edu
• Follow us on social media! Instagram:@ucbpsychadvising and Facebook: UCB Psych Peers

- Update: Important Changes to the Major Application: Effective summer 2024 our major application process includes changes to areas of applicant eligibility and application processing, refer to our major requirements and the apply to the major webpages. Please fully review the new policies prior to contacting us. We are currently experiencing a high volume of requests and appreciate your patience as we answer your questions. Major Applications for Fall 2024 are accepted until 4pm PDT on Friday, September 20.

WEEKLY OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS:

1.Apply to Psi Chi Honor Society, Deadline 9/27

CALLING ALL PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS/MINORS AT CAL, Interested in joining an International Honor Society to meet other like-minded psych students & grow in professional development? ⁣Applications for the Fall 2024 semester are due FRIDAY, 9/27, at 11:59PM. Apply here!

More information:

Instagram: @berkeleypsichi

Email: psichi@berkeley.edu

Website: psichi.berkeley.edu

2. SCET Innovation Fellows Program

Registration is now open for the SCET Student Innovation Fellows Program! All UC Berkeley students are welcome to join and you can sign up here. Challenges begin next week on September 16th, but registration will be open all semester long!

About the program

• Complete entrepreneurial challenges on your own time to learn new skills, earn points, and win prizes!
• With enough points, become an SCET Student Innovation Fellow and earn the SCET Student Innovation Fellow Certificate
• Build connections and grow your network
• Open to all UC Berkeley students (from all majors and levels!)

Questions? Please contact Jennifer Nice at jennifernice@berkeley.edu

3. Invitation from Dean Ray to Students

I invite you for pizza at noon | Oct. 3 at Durant Hall on campus. I look forward to hearing about your semester and Cal experiences! Please RSVP by replying to this email: socialsciences@berkeley.edu

4. CALPIRG Internship and Volunteer Opportunities

APPLY NOW: Get involved to protect forests or turn out the vote on campus!

CALPIRG Students is a student organization on campus that works to protect the environment, make college more affordable, and promote civic engagement. Last elections we helped nearly 10,000 students register to vote in California and got the UCs to release a new policy to phase out single-use plastics to protect our oceans! Sign up here to get involved!

as an intern or volunteer with CALPIRG you can:

• Save our oldest forests
• Turn out the vote this election
• Bring down the cost of textbooks
• Protect wildlife like whales and sea otters
• Learn how to run a campaign, lobby elected officials, train and manage a team, and more!

5.UCLA URJP Call for Undergraduate Research Papers, Deadline: November 29

Have you completed a research paper in a psychology-related field (i.e. psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics)? Are you looking for a platform to publish your work? If so, The Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology at UCLA (URJP) WANTS YOU to submit your papers for our annual publication, expected to be released Spring 2025. The deadline to submit papers is FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. PST. Multiple submissions from one author are welcome. If you would like to submit an article for consideration, please complete the following:

-Replace any identifying information (i.e. author name, institution, mentor names) with empty brackets in order to ensure anonymity within the selection process

-Read our submission criteria to ensure that you are complying with our rules.

-Visit our website's eScholarship portal to submit. Here you will be able to upload your work.

-Once you have completed that, please fill out the form linked on the submission page

More information regarding our publication can be found on our website, https://urjp.psych.ucla.edu/. To view our prior publications, please visit our website at https://urjp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at psychjournal.ucla@gmail.com for further information. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

6. New Berkeley Support Portal.

Berkeley Support Portal is a single entry point for all UC Berkeley community members to find support for themselves or others about a variety of concerns.

7. 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 in January due to a breach of this policy. Your adherence to this policy will contribute to our community safety and security.