About
Psychology is the study of mental and behavioral processes. Psychologists investigate fundamental questions such as, “How do emotion and reasoning influence one another?”, “What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?”, “How does learning occur?”, “What factors promote and hinder successful interpersonal and group interactions?” and many more. Scholars in the Psychology Department engage in nationally and internationally renowned research, training, and teaching. Unique in its combination of small size and high-impact scholarship, the Psychology Department provides students with a variety of opportunities to gain hands-on experience at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
For general queries, please email nwk_psych_staff@psychology.rutgers.edu and we will respond as soon as possible. Alternatively, please feel free to contact the relevant faculty below. Finally, for advising and mentoring, current undergraduate students are encouraged to attend office hours or arrange an appointment via email with faculty members. Contact information and virtual office hour times and links are available here.
Leadership Team
Chair: Vanessa LoBue (vlobue@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Vice Chair: Gretchen Van de Walle (g.vandewalle@rutgers.edu)
Graduate Director: Elizabeth Tricomi (etricomi@rutgers.edu)
Undergraduate and Graduate Program Information
Undergraduate Director: Ramona Ross (ramross@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Assistant Graduate Director: Jamil Bhanji (bhanji@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Graduation Certifier: Jamie Gorman (gormanj1@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Neuroscience Major Coordinator: Michael Shiflett (shiflett@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Cognitive Neuroscience Minor Coordinator: Michael Shiflett (shiflett@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Youth Development and Juvenile Justice Minor: Paul Boxer (pboxer@psychology.rutgers.edu)
How You Will Learn
Our students learn how to conceptualize a wide range of questions from a theoretical and empirical perspective, acquiring the ability to bring real data to bear on pressing social and cultural issues of our time. Many of our students go on to pursue clinical, applied, or research-oriented graduate degrees in psychology, counseling, education, or health-related professions. The analytic and critical thinking skills our students acquire also enable students to pursue a wide variety of careers that value innovative, evidence-based thinking. Psychology is proud to offer our students opportunities to conduct research side by side with our outstanding faculty and to be the only undergraduate major program at Rutgers University-Newark to offer students the opportunity to earn Honors in the major. Students in our nationally ranked doctoral program pursue successful careers in higher education as well as industry and business. Come learn with us!
Programs
Undergraduate
Graduate
Monday
Karen Smith | 10:00-11:00 AM, Smith 341 |
Mauricio Delgado | 10:00-11:00 AM, Smith 343 |
Paul Boxer | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Smith 333 |
Gretchen Van de Walle | 12:00-2:00pm, Smith 335 |
Barry Komisaruk | 1:00-2:00 PM, Smith 327A or Zoom |
Tuesday
William Graves | 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Smith 337 or Zoom |
Gretchen Van de Walle | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Smith 335 |
Michael Shiflett | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Smith 334 |
Miriam Rosenberg-Lee | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Smith 338 |
Kent Harber | 2:00-3:00 PM, Smith 352 |
Stephen Jose Hanson | 2:00 PM -3:00 PM, RUBIC 104 |
Ellen Halpern | 2:30 PM -3:300 PM, Smith 330 |
Wednesday
Elizabeth Tricomi | 10:00 AM- 11:00 AM, Smith 350 |
Paul Boxer | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Smith 333 |
Ramona Ross | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM via Zoom |
Christina Zambrano | 12:oo PM-2:00 PM via Zoom |
Kimele Persaud | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Smith 340 |
Jamie Gorman | 4:00 PM- 6:00PM via Webex |
Gerard LaMorte | 4:45-5:45 pm, Smith 359 |
Thursday
Jamil Bhanji | 2:00-3:00 PM, Smith 359 |
Friday
Vanessa LoBue | 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM, Smith 342 |
Contact

101 Warren Street, Smith Hall
Room 301
Newark, NJ 07102
United States
Faculty

Miriam Rosenberg-Lee
Assistant Professor

Barry Komisaruk
Distinguished Professor

Mauricio Delgado
Professor and Chair

Michael Shiflett
Research Assistant Professor