Current MSGP Students

It is the students’ responsibility to stay up to date on all forms and deadlines related to their thesis/SRP. Due dates for the final thesis submission to the graduate school are typically mid-semester. This means that the thesis must be defended with final draft approval by the major professor before the middle of the semester they intend to graduate.

Thesis Forms and Deadlines*

*Pay special attention to the deadlines to submit your intent to graduate forms and your final thesis draft.

Thesis Proposal Paperwork

• Faculty Committee Appointment Form
• Proposal Defense Form
• Milestone Rating Form*

Thesis Defense Paperwork

• Final Faculty Committee Approval Form
• Thesis Final Defense Results
• Milestone Rating Form*

Specialty Review Paper Proposal Paperwork

• Milestone Rating Form*

Specialty Revew Paper Defense Paperwork

• Milestone Rating Form*
• Comprehensive Examination Results Form

*Students need to email this form to all thesis committee members after both the proposal defense AND the final thesis defense.

Graduation Information

To graduate, students will need to:

• Apply/submit an Intent to Graduate
• Complete the Degree Candidacy Form
• Complete the Course Substitution Form (if required)

**The link to these forms and associated deadlines can be found here.**

Student Successes

We want to recognize the achievements of our MSGP students as they progress through our program. There are too many to list, but here are some recent highlights! 

	Rachel Stobbe was the ’23 – ’24 MSGP representative on the psychology graduate student association. We will miss her as she joins the School Psychology PhD program at UMASS: Boston!

We have two first-year MSGP students we want to recognize for their outstanding achievements this year!

	Chance Dow was awarded a $5000 research fellowship from ESPN to explore different experiences with sports betting and the effect of responsible gambling messages for sports media among college students. Chance is a busy member of the Gambling Clinic working under Dr. Rory Pfund.
	Randy Smith was awarded a Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference Student Travel Award! Randy also WON the Society of Pediatric Psychology Three-Minute Thesis Competition in April! His Presentation title was: The Relations between Cost Delay Discounting, Delay Reward Discounting, and Diabetes-Specific Microaggressions among Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Type One Diabetes. Randy is working under Dr. Kris Berlin in the Child Health and Illness lab.

Other student achievements we want to highlight:

Corey Jackson and Rachel Stobbe each received the Craig Brown MSGP Program Director Award for their outstanding scholarly achievements and service to the department! Congratulations Corey and Rachel! Noelle Patterson serves as our MSGP representative in the PGSA. We are proud to recognize many of our 2023 and 2024 graduates who were accepted into doctoral programs in both clinical and school psychology!  Our current class of MSGP students maintains a high level of excellence with an average GPA of 3.74.