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Understanding Mental Processes & Behavior

Discover how a multitude of factors interact to affect not only behavior, but also mental processes and experience

Overview

The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Regis University is a collaborative community of scholars, students, and staff working together to examine and understand the forces driving behavior and mental processes and behavior.  This collaborative, hands-on, integrative, demanding, and energetic environment provides students with the experiences necessary to impact both the scientific community and the society at large.  Stated simply, our students develop the skills necessary for success in their persona, professional, and scientific lives.    The department of psychology and neuroscience offers majors and minors in both psychology and neuroscience. The department aims to provide the students with educational experiences necessary for success in a diverse set of fields.  This includes experiences that will 1) enhance understanding and knowledge of the factors driving human behavior, 2) enable students to analyze, evaluate and develop  theories, methods and data in psychology or neuroscience,  and 3) enable effective application of these skills to their personal and professional lives.

Learn more about our distinguished faculty members by viewing our Department of Psychology and Neuroscience faculty profiles.

Special Features of the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Department

  • Hands on laboratory experience in numerous courses. 
  • Opportunities to conduct  original research projects
  • Realworld experience as teaching, laboratory, and research assistants. 
  • Engage in off campus internships and service learning projects. 
  • Get involved in our community by joining the  psychology and neuroscience clubs
  • The Regis University Chapter of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology
  • Harry E. Hoewischer, S.J., Excellence in Psychololgy Award bestowed on a graduating senior who has displayed academic excellence in psychology and service to the Regis College Department of Psychology during his or her tenure at Regis
  • Harry E. Hoewischer, S.J., Excellence in Psychology Scholarship bestowed on a junior psychology major who has displayed excellence in psychology and service to the Regis College Department of Psychology
  • Eugene R. Delay Excellence in Neuroscience Award bestowed on a graduating senior who has displayed academic excellence in neuroscience and service to the Regis College Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program during his or her tenure at Regis

Research & Internship Opportunities

The department has laboratory space for teaching and for research activities. These facilities provide undergraduate students with excellent opportunities to conduct research in biopsychology, cognition, perception, social psychology, child development, neuropsychology, behavioral neuroscience and other areas of psychology and neuroscience. The psychology and neuroscience labs offer students and opportunity to work with state of the art equipment. . These opportunities have helped build a long tradition of Regis students presenting their research at regional and national conferences and have led many students to earn co-authorship of research papers published in scientific journals. These research experiences and opportunities provide majors and minors with real world experience that enhance job and graduate school opportunities.

Our students have presented research at the following conferences:

  • Society for Research in Child Development
  • Conference on Human Development
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
  • Association of Chemoreception Sciences
  • Southwestern Psychological Association

Psychology and Neuroscience majors can gain "hands on' experience of the discipline through the internship program at Regis University. This experience complements the instruction students receive in the classroom, broadens students’ perspectives, and helps students make informed career decisions.