Financial Aid
All of our graduate students are automatically considered for teaching and/or research assistantships
psychology
Graduate Program Admissions
Please note that the new onine application system can now be accessed here: http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/ProspectiveStudents/Admission.html
Scholarships and Grants
Outstanding Psychology Major Award
The recipient will be given a certificate and $200.00
Eligibility:
Applicant must be a junior or senior Psychology Major currently enrolled at the UK/Lexington campus.
Application Materials:
Students can either be nominated by a faculty member or submit a self-nomination to the Department Manager, Tamra Nowitzki (email tamra.nowitzki@uky.edu). Self-nominations should include:
Advising
Advising Appointments: In the College of Arts and Sciences all students are advised by professional academic advisors. Advising is conducted by appointment and each appointment is allotted 30-minutes.
Appointments can be scheduled in myUK under the myInfo link. If you need to cancel an appointment, you may do so in the myUK appointment scheduling system or notify your advisor in advance, by phone or email. Many questions can be answered via email.
Psychology Major Requirements
New Curriculum starting Fall 22
PreMajor Requirements: Complete All Courses
PSY 100 Introduction to Psychology (or equivalent) [3-4 hours]
PSY 195 Orientation to Psychology [1 hour]
PSY 215 Experimental Psychology [4 hours]
Major Core: Complete All Courses
Michael Bardo Named 2011 William B. Sturgill Award Recipient
Director of the Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation and Department of Psychology Professor Michael Bardo has been named a 2011 William B. Sturgill Award recipient. The award is presented anually to a graduate faculty member for outstanding contributions to graduate education at the University of Kentucky. "Winning the Sturgill Award is such a high honor for me because my past trainees have been so successful," Bardo began.
About the Psychology Department
On this website you will find detailed information about all aspects of the department. Click on the menu tabs to browse our website, where you can learn who's on our faculty and what they're doing, find out what it takes to major in psychology, and get information about our doctoral training programs (e.g., our clinical program has been ranked #1 nationally for scholarly productivity).
How to contact the Department of Psychology:
Holly Miller
Holly Miller
Graduate Student
By Erin Holaday
Photos by Shaun Ring
Natalie Glover
Natalie Glover bears no material resemblance to Wassily Kandinski.
But the 23-year-old psychology graduate student has dealt with the abstract in ways that parallel this Russian abstract painter and art theorist.
The most obvious parallel is that Glover is a painter too. And like Kandinski, she realizes the intrinsic value of art in dealing with matters of human nature; of reflecting not only what is aesthetically pleasing, but also what is internally revealing.
Janet Neisewander
Janet Neisewander spends a lot of her time with rodents and cocaine.
As strange as that may sound, the research the Arizona State University professor is doing with those two things may someday help people struggling with addiction.