PSYCHOLOGY
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Jane Doe
1122 Normal Street No. 302
Lincoln, NE 68503
Phone (402) 555-1212
E-mail jdoe8@bigred.unl.edu
EDUCATION
2006
B.A. Psychology
University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL)
Choose a readable font (e.g.,
Major:
Times, Arial, Calibri) and
If you completed a thesis, be
Minor:
reasonable size (11 to 12 point).
sure to include it on your CV.
Honors Thesis: (Title of your thesis)
Supervisors: (Name of professors who supervised your thesis)
In this section, you can include
GPA:
any scholarships, awards, or
Major GPA:
grants (e.g., UCARE) you have
received, as well as any honor
Include
GRANTS, HONORS, & SCHOLARSHIPS
society involvement (like Psi
the date
2006
Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) Recipient
Chi!).
you
2005-2006
McNair Scholar
received
2005
Student Spotlight: UNL Department of Psychology
Be sure to spell out acronyms
the
2005
A & M Waters Scholarship
that are common knowledge
2004-Present
Charles & Emma Novotny Scholarship
award,
around the UNL campus (such
2003
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship
listing
as UCARE) but are a foreign
2003
Ruth & Carl Olenberger Scholarship
the
2003-Present
G. Bremer Memorial Scholarship
language to other schools. You
most
2002
Elmer Rhoden Merit Scholarship
may also want to provide a
Dean’s List, College of Arts & Sciences
recent
2002-2006
brief description of UCARE.
first
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
This section includes your
Summer Research Assistant
involvement in research labs.
Again, list your activities with
Department of Psychology
Here is where you could also
the most recent first
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
provide a description of
2005-Present
research oriented groups
Responsibilities:
and/or awards (e.g., McNair
I assisted Dr. Richard Servatti with an anxiety research project. My specific responsibilities
Scholars or UCARE)
including serving as an actor-facilitator, creating anxiety-response behaviors in subjects during
videotaped session, coding the video-taped sessions, and assisting with the analysis and
dissemination of findings.
Research experience should be
the FIRST thing on your CV. This
Include a brief summary of your
Research Assistant
Department of Psychology
is what graduate schools are
involvement in the lab and
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
looking for!
highlight specific tasks that you
2004 – Present
were responsible for. Be sure to
use action verbs!