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: Mauricio Delgado (delgado@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Undergraduate Director: Gretchen Van de Walle (g.vandewalle@rutgers.edu)
Graduate Director: Vanessa LoBue (vlobue@psychology.rutgers.edu)
Undergraduate and Graduate Program Information
Assistant 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
Mauricio Delgado 10:00-11:00 AM, Smith 324
Gretchen Van de Walle 12:00-2:00pm via Zoom
Barry Komisaruk 1:00-2:00 PM, Smith 327
Harold Siegel 1:00-2:20pm via Zoom
Tuesday
Gretchen Van de Walle 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Smith 335
Kent Harber 2:00-3:00 PM, Smith 352
Paul Boxer 9:00-10:00 AM, Smith 333
Michael Shiflett 11:30am-1pm via Zoom
Wednesday
Elizabeth Tricomi 10:00-11:20am via Zoom
Ramona Ross 11:00a-2:00pm via Zoom
Stephen Jose Hanson 12:00pm via Zoom
Vanessa LoBue 1:00-2:00pm via Zoom
Samantha Heintzelman On Sabbatical Leave Spring 2022
Christina Zambrano 3:30-5:00pm via Zoom
Miriam Rosenberg-Lee 4:00-5:00pm via Zoom
Gerard LaMorte 4:45-5:45 pm via Zoom
Paul Boxer 11:30am-12:30pm via Zoom
Jamie Gorman 2:00-4:00pm via Zoom
Thursday
Jamil Bhanji 2:00-3:00 PM, Smith 4th floor, room 110
Samantha Heintzelman 4:00-5:00 PM, Smith 354
Friday
Luis Rivera 8:45-9:45am via Zoom
Kimele Persaud 10-11am via Zoom
Contact

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

Miriam Rosenberg-Lee
Assistant Professor

Ramona Ross
Teaching Instructor and Assistant Undergraduate Director

Elizabeth Bonawitz
Associate Professor

Kent Harber
Professor and Graduate Director