The mission of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is to lead scientific advances through state-of-the-art experimentation and theory with the goal of understanding how the entire brain-behavior system works—from molecular neuroscience to cognition to the social behavior of groups. Our graduate students are active and involved participants in this mission.
Our vision for graduate training is:
- To give you the skills and scholarly insight necessary to be ahead of the curve
- To train you in state-of-the-art experimentation and theory
- To enable you to build deep expertise in your domain, alongside a broad vision of the field
- To prepare you to integrate advances in basic science with applications through transitional research and clinical science
- To create researchers with the highest professional ethics
- To build a generation of excellent teachers and mentors
- To coach in practical matters of grant writing, publications, and time organization
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