Student involvement in orgininal research, conducted jointly with facutly members, is a hallmark of the Psychology department at Susquehanna.  In recent years, projects have been done in areas such as developmental psychobiology, leraning, intelligence testing, developmental psychology, and social psychology.

Students have presented papers describing the results of their work at national professional meetings in Toronto and New York, and at regional professional meetings in Boston, Buffalo (NY), New Orleans, Hartford, New York City, Philadelphia, Arlington (VA), and Privdence (RI). Many psychology majors have also presented papers at the Susquehanna University Student Scholar Day, and have served as co-authors on numerous papers published in professional journals.