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Undergraduate
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Research
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- Research Expertise
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Research Labs
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- Addiction and Innovative Methodology (AIM) Lab
- Alcohol Habits in Daily Life Lab
- Biomarker Core Lab
- Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab
- Behavioral Neurogenetics Lab
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Biobehavioral Health Studies Lab
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Bio-Qualitative Research Lab (BioQUAL)
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- Decision Neuroscience
- Disparities Related to Individual Variance in Executive Functioning and Stress
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Epidemiology and Genetics across Populations & Societies Lab
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Family and Child Health Project
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- Molecular Genetics Lab
- Neurobiological Investigation of Learning and Addiction
- Prevention Research to Optimize (PRO) Health Lab
- Rural Health Disparities Lab
- Shalev Lab (Stress and Aging)
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Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory
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- Smoking and Health Behavior Lab
- Mechanics of Emotion, Stress, and Health (MESH) Lab
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Stress and Immunity Lab
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Stress and Nutrition Research Program
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- Stress, Health, and Daily Experiences (SHADE) Lab
- Stress Psychophysiology Lab
- Substance Use Neuroscience
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Water, Health, & Nutrition Lab
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- Youth Experiences and Later Health Lab
- Veturi Lab
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Outreach & Service
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Opportunities for Students

Students in Penn State’s Biobehavioral Health program have a truly unique opportunity to work with world-renowned researchers and faculty members in an active research environment.
As a BBH student, you’ll contribute greatly to our research mission while gaining firsthand experience in conducting groundbreaking research, working with participants, collecting data, conducting data analyses, publishing papers, and presenting your findings at academic conferences.
In keeping with our innovative and interdisciplinary mission in Biobehavioral Health, the research possibilities here are extensive and diverse, spanning domains such as behavioral neuroscience, behavioral endocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology, genetics, behavioral pharmacology, health promotion, health psychology, epidemiology, health and vulnerable populations, social psychology, socio-ethical dynamics, cognition — and much more.
Explore our current active projects.