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MPP/PhD in Psychology

Master in public policy/phd in psychology.

The McCourt School and the Department of Psychology offer a dual MPP/PhD in Psychology through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This 48-credit program provides an interdisciplinary education in the sciences that concern themselves with the processes and contexts of development across the lifespan. It is explicitly designed to offer students rigorous training in the range of theories and methods that characterize the developmental sciences and enable them to place the study of development into the broader contexts – biological, familial, social, cultural, economic, historical, political – from which the field draws its societal applications. The program will prepare students for an array of post-degree positions in institutions of higher education, research institutes, government agencies and other policy settings, medical settings, and nonprofit organizations. Conducting high-quality empirical research that makes a contribution to both scientific understanding and human welfare is an overarching theme of this dual degree program.

Students interested in applying to the MPP/PhD in Psychology Program should complete and submit both the MPP and Psychology applications to the respective programs. For more information on the PhD in Psychology, please contact the  Department of Psychology .

Although there is some flexibility in order to accommodate students’ specific professional and academic goals, students enrolled in the dual MPP/PhD in Psychology program typically pursue the following course of study:

Typical Course of Study

Fall Semester (12 credits)

• PPOL 5004, Intermediate Microeconomics
• PPOL 5000, Statistical Methods for Policy Analysis
• PPOL 5006/5007, The Politics of Policy-Making/Comparative Politics of Policy-Making
• PSYC 5001, Lifespan Development

Spring Semester (12 credits)

• PPOL 5001, Regression Methods for Policy Analysis
• PPOL 5005, Microeconomics II
• PPOL 5008/5009, Public Management/Comparative Public Management
• PSYC 4810, Child & Fam Policy (3 credits) (or similar)
• PPOL 5002, Advanced Regression and Program Evaluation Methods
• PPOL 5011/5013, Policy Analysis Capstone I/Thesis Workshop I
• PSYC 5002, Human Development in Context (3 credits)
• PPOL 5012/5014, Policy Analysis Capstone II/Thesis Workshop II
• PPOL 5010, Ethics, Values and Public Policy
• Electives (6 credits)

Fall Semester (0 credits)

• Thesis Research

Spring Semester (0 credits)

Georgetown University

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Concentration in Cognitive Science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind and deals with the nature of perception, motor organization, memory, language, thinking, consciousness, and learning and development.  It investigates these topics from a number of methodological perspectives, including behavioral evidence for how these systems operate and formal, symbolic, and biological evidence on the computational and neural machinery that underlies them. Research on these topics comes centrally from several traditionally distinct fields:  experimental psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience. Other relevant disciplines – biology, anthropology, economics, decision sciences, and education – are also part of this burgeoning field.

The interdisciplinary concentration program at Georgetown aims to enable graduate students to pursue research in cognitive science by building an advisory committee of faculty members from multiple departments at the University, in order to pursue truly interdisciplinary work in this ground breaking field.  Professors and researchers from the departments of linguistics, philosophy, neurology, psychology, computer science, Spanish and Portuguese, biology, and others, have agreed to work with students to develop individual programs of study that fit the interests of the student.  Students will graduate with a Ph.D. from a home department with a Concentration in Cognitive Science.

The Concentration in Cognitive Science is supported by the Feldstein Veron Cognitive Science Fund and by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

About Cognitive Science

For centuries philosophers and scientists of many stripes have sought to understand the relationship between the brain and mind, sometimes described as the hardest problem in science.  How is it that the human brain, three pounds of matter, supports so many faculties that distinguish our species from all other life forms:  consciousness, language, science, mathematics, morality, music, art, and more?  We need good theories of the brain, the mind, and of the linking between them, the mind/brain.

On the brain side, one of the most striking developments of the last few decades has been the growth of neuroscience. The Society for Neuroscience was formed forty years ago and now has 43,000 members; its annual meetings attract 35,000 participants every November.  Georgetown has participated in this development, with one of the earliest and strongest Ph.D. programs in the field.  Indeed, the National Research Council in its latest survey of Ph.D. programs ranked our Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) as the highest of Georgetown’s Ph.D. programs.

On the mind side, cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind and deals with the nature of perception, motor organization, memory, language, thinking, consciousness, and learning and development. It investigates these topics from a number of methodological perspectives, including behavioral evidence for how these systems operate and formal, symbolic, and biological evidence on the computational and neural machinery that underlies them. Research on these topics comes centrally from several traditionally distinct fields:  experimental psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience. Other relevant disciplines – biology, anthropology, economics, decision sciences, and education – are also part of this burgeoning field.

The Cognitive Science Society was formed in 1979, just after the Society for Neuroscience.  In recent years the interdisciplinary cognitive sciences have grown in stature and prominence, both in the US and around the world.  There is a renamed section of the National Academy of Sciences and a new National Research Council Board that cover these areas; virtually all major research universities offer graduate and postdoctoral programs in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience, with variation in the character of the programs depending on the interdisciplinary strengths of each university.

CARES Lab Members

Lab Director

Casey Brown, PhD

Principal Investigator

Casey Brown, PhD 

Casey Brown is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, after completing her clinical internship at the University of California, San Francisco. Before graduate school, she served as the Project Coordinator of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and received her BA in psychology and cognitive science from the University of Virginia.

Casey’s research examines how we share, understand, and influence one another’s emotions. She’s interested in how these interpersonal emotional processes are beneficial for health, and how these processes go awry and contribute to depression. Her research uses an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to inform and advance interventions that improve socio-emotional functioning. She works with individuals who have neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as neurotypical individuals, and studies a number of different forms of social connections across the lifespan, with a particular focus on aging in dyads. Her work is currently funded by an R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute on Aging.

Graduate Students 

Neuroscience PhD candidate

Neke grew up in CA, where she attended undergrad at UC-Berkeley and earned a degree in psychology with a minor in disability studies. She then received her masters in neuroscience and education from Columbia University. She is a Phd candidate in the IPN program at Georgetown. Her research focuses on understanding the cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms of neurodegenerative disorders in high risk populations. When Neke is not in the lab, you can catch her at a museum or at a restaurant trying new foods.

Annika Allen

Incoming Psychology graduate student

Annika graduated from William & Mary in 2022 with a B.S. in Psychology and in Kinesiology & Health Sciences. Before joining the CARES lab, she worked in the W&M Autism Lab and as a lab manager for the Cognitive Aging and Memory and Integrative Cognitive Neuroscience labs at Tufts University. As a graduate student on the LCN track, her research interests center around the impact that emotion and interoceptive processes have on social relationships and health, as well as methods to improve socio-emotional functioning across the lifespan.

Matthew Kiely 

Matt graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2020 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences (General Biology) and a minor in Neuroscience. Before starting as an LCN student, he worked in the Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at UMD as an undergrad RA and as a postbac, the Magnetic Resonance Physics of Aging and Dementia Unit at the National Institute on Aging as a postbac, and the Lab for Neurodevelopment of Reading and Language at UMD as a project manager. He is interested in the neuroscience surrounding interpersonal relationships, empathy, and interactions in naturalistic contexts. 

Anna Toledo

Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow

Anna graduated from Wake Forest University in 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience.  She worked in a cognitive lab during her undergraduate studies, where she completed her Honors Thesis. Anna was awarded a Diversity Supplement from the National Institute on Aging, and will be working with Dr. Brown to investigate the effects of emotion regulation on the well-being and executive functioning of dementia caregivers. In her free time, Anna likes to do yoga, paint-by-numbers, and hang out with friends.

Navya Yarrabothula

Lab Manager

Navya is the current lab manager.  She received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Clinical Psychology from University of California, San Diego in 2023. She worked at the Empathy and Emotion Lab at UCSD and completed her honor's thesis there. Navya is interested in interpersonal emotion regulation and the costs of regulating someone else's emotions. In her free time, she loves talking about new TV shows, playing ukulele, and taking up new DIY projects!

Research Assistants 

Pierson Cohen

Research Assistant

Pierson is a Junior in the College, majoring in Psychology. He enjoys reading, listening to music, and traveling. He likes learning languages, such as Japanese and Italian. He is also passionate about culture and the arts, and is an assistant editor in the Georgetown Voice’s Leisure section.

Maeve Pierson

Maeve is a sophomore at Georgetown from Boise, Idaho, studying psychology on the pre-med track. She hopes to pursue a career as a pediatrician and loves to cook, run, ski, travel and listen to “nerdy psychology podcasts” in her free time.  

Madumitha Parthasarathy

With a background in clinical psychology, Madumitha strives to help people’s overall mental well-being. Her passion and expertise lies in research, where she like to seek evidence-based solutions to navigate our complex world. 

Zaynab Ibrahim

Zaynab studied psychology at Williams College and has a strong interest in both the clinical and developmental research areas. She enjoys reading novels, spending time with family and friends, and learning languages such as Arabic and Japanese. She hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Psychology in the future.

Kriti Mukherjee

Kriti is a student in the School of Health, studying Healthcare Management and Policy on the Pre Medical track and minoring in Studio Art. She is interested in the fields of Neurobiology, Neuroscience, and Psychology. She plans to pursue a career in medicine. 

Nishita Paruchuri

Nishita is a rising junior in high school. She is passionate about the interdisciplinary relationship between neuroscience and psychology, and hope to become a neurosurgeon. Her main interests are emotion perception and regulation in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. In her free time, she loves to bake and read!

Vineet Sekhon

I'm Vineet Sekhon, a postgraduate with a Master's in Clinical Psychology from India. Eager to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology, I'm captivated by interpersonal relationships, resilience, and emotional regulation. Aiming to contribute meaningfully to psychological research, my journey is fueled by curiosity and a desire to unravel the complexities of human behavior. In my free time, I find solace in reading and groove to the melodies of KPOP. 

Nathaniel Drexler

Nathaniel is a Senior at Northwestern University, majoring in Psychology and Philosophy. He enjoys reading bad fantasy novels and backpacking in his free time. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology post-graduation, and his areas of interest include mood and anxiety disorders.

Samie Adapa

Samie is a rising senior at Oakton High School in Northern Virginia. She is passionate about neurology and hopes to pursue a career in medicine in the future. Outside of school, Samie enjoys playing the guitar, reading, and listening to music.

  Eli is a senior at Georgetown University, majoring in psychology with minors in journalism in Spanish. Eli is originally from Bethesda, Maryland, and hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology following graduation. His primary research interests include mood and anxiety disorders and neurodegenerative disorders, as well as the application of knowledge about clinical psychology and mental health to improve well-being and behavioral health outcomes. In his free time, Eli enjoys trying new restaurants with friends, watching soccer, and walking around DC.

Srilakshmi Venkatesan

Srilakshmi (Sri) is a rising senior at Hopkinton High School. Her interests lie in the intersections of anthropology, neuroscience, and psychology, hoping to major in a combination of such studies. As she continues to explore her passions, she aspires to advocate for social change to benefit neurological care.

Saranya Gadwala

Saranya is a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Northern Virginia. She hopes to pursue a career in the field of medicine, specifically psychiatry or neurology. In her free time, Saranya can be found drawing, listening to music, or spending time with friends.

Raha Montazeri

Raha is a rising senior at Woodson High School. She hopes to pursue a pre-med track in college and further a career as a pediatric neurosurgeon. She is passionate about neurology, psychology, genetics, and the overall health of her population. She enjoys figure skating, crocheting, and seeing her friends and family in her free time

Hannah Cozad

Former Lab Manager

Current Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology

ABIGAIL MARSH PhD

How do we understand what others think and feel? What drives us to help other people? What prevents us from harming them?

Introduction

How do we understand what others think and feel? What drives us to help other people? What prevents us from harming them? My lab’s research on these topics uses functional and structural brain imaging in children and adults, as well as behavioral, cognitive, and neurohormonal approaches.​

Abigail Marsh is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2004.

Our lab’s research includes behavioral and brain imaging investigations of human social behaviors ranging from extraordinary altruism to serious conduct problems in children, adolescents, and adults.

The Laboratory on Social & Affective Neuroscience is located at Georgetown University. We conduct research aimed at understanding the social, cognitive, and neural basis of processes that include empathy, altruism, and aggression.

MEDIA & PRESS

Abigail Marsh welcomes opportunities to communicate our research findings to a broad range of audiences through media interviews, public lectures, and written articles for popular outlets.

Why are some people more altruistic than others? Are their brains just different?

The Fear Factor

“This compelling scientific detective story spirals outward into realms that affect everyone. Best of all, [Marsh’s] writing style is vivid and personable.” ― Wall Street Journal.

“Those who seek to comprehend the origin of fear, altruism, and elements of human nature will find this book a key factor in their increased understanding.” ― Science

The Laboratory on Social & Affective Neuroscience

Announcements.

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Berluti!

Dr. Marsh receives the Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Katherine O’Connell received the 2023 Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences

Arab Studies

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The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is the only academic center in the United States focusing exclusively on the Arab world. Through a master’s program or an undergraduate or graduate certificate, students will be trained in the language, history, culture, society, politics, and economics of the contemporary Arab world.

Arabic and Islamic Studies

The graduate program in Arabic and Islamic Studies aim to combine a thorough understanding of the Arabic language with scholarly research in the literary, linguistic and intellectual traditions of the Arab and Islamic world. The Arabic and Islamic Studies Department offers graduate level courses in Arabic linguistics, Islamic studies, and literature of the classical and modern eras. M.A. students will complete one Major concentration and one Minor concentration towards the degree. Similarly, Ph.D. students who are admitted with advanced standing will complete one Major concentration and one Minor concentration towards the degree. Those who are admitted to the Ph.D. program without an earned master’s degree in a related field will complete one Major concentration and two Minor concentrations.

Art & Museum Studies

Georgetown’s M.A. in Art & Museum Studies program is a selective program that combines the academic study of art history and museum practice and emphasizes the international contexts of museums in the modern world. Students work closely with Georgetown art history faculty, curators, and other museum professionals in Washington, D.C., and faculty specialists at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, England and New York City.

Asian Studies

The M.A. in Asian Studies Program gives students a unique combination of functional training and regional expertise, and provides students with the skills necessary to meet the demands of global private and public sector interests in Asia. Students have the opportunity to study core disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences as they relate to Asia, and are given the opportunity to specialize in at least one and potentially two areas of concentration.

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Michael Ullman, PhD

PhD (Brain & Cognitive Sciences) 1993 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) New Research Building, EP07 Phone: 202.687.6064 Fax: 202.687.0617 E-mail:  [email protected]

Dr. Ullman is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Neurology. He is Director of the Brain and Language Lab, and Director of the Georgetown EEG/ERP Laboratory.

The Brain and Language Lab aims to elucidate how language is learned, represented, and processed in the mind and brain.  We focus especially on understanding how language learning and use depend on evolutionarily ancient learning and memory systems in the brain: declarative memory and procedural memory, which are respectively rooted in the hippocampus and the basal ganglia. We study both native and later-learned language/bilingualism. We are also interested in the neurocognition of math, reading, and music, and whether and how these also depend on the two learning and memory systems. We investigate between and within subject differences in the neurocognition of language and other domains, based on factors such as genetic variation, endocrine fluctuations, sex and handedness differences, and individual differences in learning and memory abilities. We test our hypotheses using a set of complementary behavioral, neurological, neuroimaging ((f)MRI), electrophysiological (ERPs), and other approaches (e.g., genetic, endocrine, pharmacological). We are interested in the normal acquisition and processing of language and other domains, as well as the breakdown, recovery and rehabilitation of these processes in a variety of developmental and later-onset disorders, including Developmental Language Disorder (i.e., Specific Language Impairment), dyslexia, autism, Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and aphasia. A new area of research investigates how language and other cognitive abilities are affected in the aging brain. This work is being led by Research Scholar Jana Reifegerste, with the close involvement and support of undergraduate Lauren Russell.

The Georgetown EEG/ERP Laboratory provides a state-of-the-art facility for the acquisition of human electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs). The lab’s Neuroscan SynAmps2 EEG/ERP system can be used for up to 64-channel EEG/ERP acquisition. Additionally, we have a 64 channel BrainAmp MR Plus system from Brain Products that allows one to carry out simultaneous EEG/ERP and fMRI acquisition in Georgetown’s Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging (CFMI) 3T Siemens Magnetom Trio scanner.

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Marissa Miller Ph.D., NCSP

Marissa Miller, PhD, NCSP, is a licensed psychologist and Nationally Certified School Psychologist. She provides assessment services for children and adolescents. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, before earning her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in School Psychology from the University of South Carolina.

She completed her doctoral internship in Fairfax County Public Schools and a two-year clinical psychology postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Neuropsychology at Children’s National. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Maryland Psychological Association, and National Association of School Psychologists.

Dr. Miller has extensive experience training and working in school, clinic, and hospital-based settings as part of interdisciplinary teams including parents, teachers, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, and others. Her expertise includes assessment and intervention related to neurodevelopmental disabilities, executive functioning, anxiety, and other psychological services for children and adolescents. Her practice incorporates psychological evaluation, neuropsychological approaches to testing for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, positive psychology, and a cognitive-behavioral theoretical approach.

Dr. Miller conducts comprehensive psychological evaluations to answer referral questions and presenting problems regarding social/emotional concerns and neurodevelopmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Specific Learning Disorder. She aims to empower youth and their families to embrace their strengths, recognize and celebrate neurodiversity, advocate for needs at school and in the community, and cope with areas of difficulty. She uses targeted evaluation to connect children and adolescents to interventions, strategies, and accommodations that facilitate these goals.

Dr. Miller is licensed in the state of Maryland.

Matthew Kiely receives Honorable Mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition

April 4, 2024 — Matthew Kiely received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition.

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30 Best universities for Mechanical Engineering in Moscow, Russia

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in Moscow ranked based on their research performance in Mechanical Engineering. A graph of 269K citations received by 45.8K academic papers made by 30 universities in Moscow was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Moscow State University

For Mechanical Engineering

2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

3. National Research University Higher School of Economics

4. Moscow Aviation Institute

5. N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute

6. National Research Nuclear University MEPI

7. National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"

8. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

9. Moscow State Technological University "Stankin"

10. RUDN University

11. Moscow Polytech

12. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

13. Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

14. Moscow Medical Academy

15. Russian State University of Oil and Gas

16. mendeleev university of chemical technology of russia.

17. Russian National Research Medical University

18. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

19. National Research University of Electronic Technology

20. Moscow State Pedagogical University

21. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

22. State University of Management

23. Moscow State Institute of International Relations

24. Russian State Geological Prospecting University

25. russian state agricultural university.

26. New Economic School

27. Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation

28. Russian State University for the Humanities

29. Russian State Social University

30. Moscow State Linguistic University

Universities for Mechanical Engineering near Moscow

Engineering subfields in moscow.