SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology Jobs and Grants
Job Opportunities
A variety of jobs are available to help students learn while they earn. Students can work in federal or state work study programs or earn wages.
Work study positions are available in the each of the faculty research labs each semester. Talk to your faculty member for more information.
Web site development (Wage or workstudy). Help to develop and maintain our psychology website. See Dr. Dawn Blasko for more information.
Multimedia programming.(Wage or workstudy) If you have experience working with Macs and doing mutimedia programming with Macromedia Authorware see See Dr. Dawn Blasko for more information. for a great opportunity.
Psychology lab attendant (Work Study). See Ms. Jennifer Trich Kremer for more information.
Research positions (Workstudy or credit) in the application of psychology to business (HR, employee evaluation), computers (usability, web and software design) and engineering (ergonomics, user centered design) available. See Ms. Jennifer Trich Kremer for more information.
Research assistant positions (Wage or workstudy) are often available at the Center for Organizational Research & Evaluation (CORE). See Dr. Carl Kallgren for more information.
Student Researcher/Evaluator. Conduct literature searches, enter data, assist in conducting applied research in the Business and computer fields. See Ms. Jennifer Trich Kremer for more information.
For positions working with at risk children (Work study or Credit) see Dr. Charisse Nixon for more information.
Penn State Erie Child Care Center. Work in an educational setting with young children. (Wage, Workstudy or Internship) See Director Eunice Moore for information.
Mentoring: Wage positions are available to be a mentor to first year students.
Tutoring at the Learning Resource Center. Work study and wage positions are available to tutor students in academic subjects including psychology, math and English. If you are interested, contact Ruth Pflueger, Director of the Learning Resource Center.
Penn State Educational Partnership Program needs tutors to help middle and high school students (Wage positions) Contact Kathy 874-6261
Post Graduate, AmeriCorps VISTA is looking for people to mobilize the Erie community to promote healthy youth development. Contact CORE at 814-898-6297.
Other Opportunities through Penn State
Grants
Travel Grants: Students at Penn State Erie have excellent support for travel to national, interational, and regional conferences to present their work. Many psycholoogy students travel to conferences each year. A few recent examples are below.
Psychology students Linda Kelso, Amy Johnson, and Sarah Hildreth (with faculty members Dr. Dawn Blasko and Dr. Victoria Kazmerski) presented their research At the conference of the American Psychological Society in Atlanta, Georgia in May, 2003.
Psychology students Dotty Shaffer, Kristen Shaffer, and Holly Blasko Drabik presented their research in Vancouver BC in November 2003 at the annual meetings of the Psychonomic Society and the Society for Computers in Psychology. They were accompanied by Dr. Victoria Kazmerski and Dr. Dawn Blasko.
Undergraduate Research Grants: 20-30 psychology students per year receive financial support for their research in the form of undergraduate student research awards ranging from $700 in the school year to $1200 in the summer.