A majority of Hammack Laboratory members are undergraduate students at the Universitiy of Vermont. Undergraduate students in the laboratory are encouraged to participate in as many aspects of a research project as possible, from experimental design to implementation to data analysis to the reporting of experimental results.  We are sensitive NOT to simply use students as part of an assembly line of data collection in which students only learns one technique.  It is important that students leave the lab with a better understanding of how science is accomplished.  Students in the lab are expected to attend lab meetings, present material, and report research in written form.  We also encourage students to attend departmental colloquia, cluster meetings, and sometimes national conferences. Ideally, students will become independent in the lab, and be able to conduct, analyze, and report their own studies.

Many undergraduates students receive independent study credit for their laboratory work. Some are paid part-time, and others work in the lab on a purely volunteer basis. Typically, students are expected to volunteer for a period of time before they will be considered for paid position.

We try to accommodate as many students as possible, and the laboratory is usually full. Hence we encourage undergraduate students who are interested in joinging the lab to contact Professor Hammack early in their academic careers. While we are usually full in any given semester, we can sometimes make promises to students for acceptance into the laboratory in upcoming semesters/academic years. However, regardless of your standing, please feel free to contact Professor Hammack if you have an interest in our research

Email: shammack@uvm.edu

WE ARE CURRENTLY RECRUITING GRADUATE STUDENTS (THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY) FOR THE 2010-2011 ACADEMIC YEAR.

Please contact Professor Hammack if you are interested, and see this page.

Traditionally, gradUate students have joined our laboratory as graduate students in Psychology.  However, the faculty in biobehavioral psychology are also affiliated with the Neuroscience Graduate Program, and students can also join our laboratory through that program.  As a result, some students may wonder which avenue (Psychology or Neuroscience) is best for them.  We encourage these students to contact Professor Hammack before applying to either graduate program, to discuss the advantages of each program in the context of a student’s particular needs.

This page is currently under construction, and we are working on a thorough description and comparison of both graduate programs. In the meantime, if you are interested in applying to the lab for graduate school please contact Professor Hammack.

See this page for details about applying to graduate school through the Department of Psychology.

See this page for details about applying to the Neuroscience Graduate Program.