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All of the psychology faculty are involved in collaborative research with students. We have great research facilties (more details below), and students often present as co-authors at professional conferences, not to mention co-authoring publications. The fastest way to get involved is to contact one us—we will happily describe our latest projects and ways you can get involved. Here's a directory that includes our various research areas, explore!

Psychology 101 Participant Pool

Are you currently enrolled in Psy 101 at Davidson and looking for the experiment schedule?

Science at Davidson

Each spring, all the sciences sponsor a joint symposium featuring student research. You should also check out the Medical Humanities and Neuroscience concentrations, in addition to the Science & Math homepages.

Davidson Grants & Contracts

Here are some important forms and information regarding Davidson's Human Subjects IRB and Animal Care and Use in Research.

Support for Students Presenting Research

The office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs has generously decided to provide monetary support to students who will be presenting their research findings at an academic conference. In order to be eligible for this support, the following requirements must be met: 

1.      The student must be presenting the findings of his/her research, not simply attending a conference.

2.      The student must have done research work that was directed or supervised by a Davidson College faculty member.

3.      A student is eligible for one grant (maximum of $250) per academic year. This grant may be used to support registration fees, as well as, travel, lodging, and food expenses.

4.      A graduating senior is eligible for support (typically, in the months just after graduation) if the research was done prior to graduation and the request to this office was made prior to graduation.

The supervising faculty member must make the request to the VPAA on behalf of the student.

Research Facilties

The Psychology Department is housed in two buildings—the Watson Life Sciences Building and the Hamilton House. This blend of facilities enables the department and its faculty to have both extensive animal and human laboratory research programs as well as facilities accessible to applied research with diverse constituencies from the broader community.

Dedicated in 1998, the Watson Life Sciences Building provides a state-of-the-art research/instructional facility for psychology and biology. Its 36,000 square feet span four levels, including a basement and three levels above-ground. The basement level contains a large animal care facility, behavioral neuroscience and behavioral pharmacology laboratories, an aviary, animal housing and isolation areas, behavioral testing labs, maze rooms, an operant chamber room, darkrooms, and areas for histology. The first level contains departmental offices, biology teaching laboratories, and psychology's 24-station touch-screen teaching laboratory for statistics and research design. The second level contains faculty offices and biology research laboratories, while the third level houses a seminar room and psychology's laboratories in industrial-organizational, sensation-perception, developmental, clinical, and children's television.
Hamilton House provides an easily-accessible facility for applied research in the fields of gerontology, clinical, and industrial/organizational psychology. Its 2,124 square feet include a seminar room, three faculty offices, clinical and gerontology research labs.

Both facilities are dedicated to providing the research tools and methodological expertise critical and basic to today's and tomorrow's psychology majors.