The Nebraska Psychological Society (NPS), is an organization for students and professionals that came into existence in 1993. Its purposes are to promote the scientific study of psychology, to advance teaching, research, and service in psychology, and to serve as a forum for academic psychology in the state. The focus on scientific and academic psychology serves to distinguish NPS from other state psychology organizations whose activities and concerns revolve around issues of clinical practice. NPS holds a stand-alone student research conference every other fall rotating among various Nebraska academic institutions.