September 2010| Vol. 8 No. 3
COVER PACKAGE: Fear not!
- Fear not
Worried about landing a job? Fretting about debt? Here are six common grad student fears and the facts, figures and strategies to help you manage them.
CAREER CENTER
Postgrad growth area: Behavioral geneticsPsychologists who link genes to behavior are in hot demand.
CLASS ACT
Baby talkTilbe Goksun traveled to the United States to study how language learning shapes infants' perceptions.
DEGREE IN SIGHT
Follow the leadersPsychology is all over Twitter. Whom should you track?
Impress your new bossStart your internship off right by listening, learning and perhaps even bringing in bagels.
Cool tools for schoolWhether you're a techie or a Luddite at heart, you can't miss the flood of new gadgets and technologies, many of which can make research and studying easier or even more exciting. Here's a look at four tools to test-drive this school year.
How do I become culturally competent?Both research and practice-oriented psychology students can benefit from a healthy dose of self-reflection, experts say.
The new student leadersThese five APAGS members seek big changes in the psychology field.
The Latest
- International grad school applications: On the rise
International applications to U.S. graduate schools rose by 7 percent this year.
- Why this school? It just feels right.
When aspiring graduate students weigh psychology programs they look for a sense of "fit".
- APA recognizes record number of student research projects
The APA Science Student Council awarded six $1,000 Early Graduate Student Research Awards to psychology doctoral students for their outstanding research.
- Media picks: Peter Salovey, PhD
Famous psychologist, Peter Salovey, PhD, shares his top reads, web sites and more.
- How do freestanding PsyD programs measure up?
Graduate students in research-oriented clinical PhD programs get better funding, different training and more internships than students who are in PsyD programs.
- What programs have the best internship match rates?
Percentage of students matching to an accredited internship.
- A few programs account for many unmatched students
Almost one-third of the psychology doctoral students who did not match from 2000 to 2006 came from just 15 doctoral programs.
