{"id":3,"date":"2009-05-26T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:33:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style = \"color:#000 !important; background:#d66;  border-radius:1em; padding: 1.5em; text-align:left\"><strong style = \"text-align:center;\">EMPLOYMENT PHISHING ALERT<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Department has recently become aware of an ongoing phishing scam. The scammer impersonates members of the University faculty and reaches out with a false employment offer, which quickly escalates into requests for other transactions. Please be wary of sudden communications from BU faculty with whom you have never previously interacted. <strong>University faculty will never request your BU ID number, personal information, or ask you to make purchases on their behalf.<\/strong> For more information, see the <a href =\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/information-security\/security-for-everyone\/phishing\/\" style = \"border-bottom: 1px solid #000; color: #000;\">University&#8217;s guide on phishing scams<\/a> and <a href = \"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/information-security\/bus-phish-bowl\/\" style = \"border-bottom: 1px solid #000; color: #000;\">BU&#8217;s &#8220;Phish Bowl&#8221;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Welcome to the Department of Psychological &#038; Brain Sciences <strong>(PBS)<\/strong> at Boston University. The department is a globally recognized research leader with faculty expertise in a broad range of fields. U.S. News &#038; World Report ranks Boston University <strong>#37 in the world<\/strong> (tied with Cornell University) for the strength of its combined psychiatry\/psychology faculty research strength\u2014a ranking to which BU psychological and brain sciences faculty contribute greatly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPLOYMENT PHISHING ALERT The Department has recently become aware of an ongoing phishing scam. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1569,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}