Office Information

We currently have eight graduate student offices. Each office has between 4 to 10 desks. Our policy is to assign a desk to each registered graduate student. If you wish to change offices, please see the Graduate Program Coordinator. 

You will be provided a key to your graduate student office, an entry key to Social Sciences 2 and, with their permission, a key to your advisor’s lab. There is a minimum $50.00 charge to replace a lost key. Some faculty will require that the student pay for a new lock and re-keying for a lost lab key. You should check with your advisor on their specific key policy. 

We do not issue keys to undergraduate research assistants. A faculty member or GSR may decide to check out keys to their lab under their name and issue them to their undergraduates. The person who the key is checked out to (faculty or graduate student) is responsible for the $50.00 charge to replace any key that is not returned.

You are required to turn in all your keys when you take a leave of absence, withdraw from the program or when you complete your degree.

The Grad Lab is a shared graduate student space. It contains your individual mailboxes, a Scantron machine, a refrigerator, a microwave, and a bulletin board. All graduate students are responsible for keeping this room clean, including the refrigerator and microwave.

Personal Computers

The Grad Lab contains 13 Macs configured for dual boot, Windows or Mac OS. The computers are outfitted with a full complement of software, including: Microsoft Office Suite, SPSS, Photoshop, DreamWeaver, M+, Atlas TI, EQS, and much more.

Access

The lab can be accessed using the keyless entry system; students are provided with individualized key codes at the beginning of their first year which are used along with their ID cards to open the door. Students should not give their key code out to anyone. Undergraduate students should not be left in the lab unsupervised. Please contact either campus ITS (help@ucsc.edu) or the Graduate Advising team (psyga@ucsc.edu) to report issues with the machines or key codes. If you have forgotten your code and need to request your Room 404 entry code, please contact the graduate advising team. 

During regular office hours, please report any emergencies to the psychology department office staff. If you notice something during evening or weekend hours, please call the Emergency Maintenance number at 831-459-4861.

Mail is delivered Monday-Thursday to the Faculty Services office. Mail for graduate students is sorted out each afternoon after the mail delivery and placed in your individual mailboxes in Room 404/Grad Lab. It is your responsibility to check your mailbox on a regular basis and keep it cleaned out! 

Mail can be sent from and is delivered to the Psychology Faculty Services Office, 277, Social Sciences 2. All psychology instructors have a mailbox in room 277. Mail to and from on-campus (red bag) and off-campus (blue bag) is taken and delivered between 10:00 and 11:00 am, Monday through Friday. There is no charge for sending on-campus mail, but off-campus mail requires a mail code. (Please do not post personal mail in the off-campus mail. A USPS drop-off box is located by the entrance of the building for personal mail.)