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Bruce Fuller - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the role of Black Foundations in K-12 public education in the United States. We seek to track how Black foundations are directing grant dollars to education initiatives and analyze grantmaking practices by building an original dataset of grant awards. The research apprentice will play a key...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state offices of the attorney general are responsible to promote and protect competition; however, their resources to scrutinize proposed mergers and acquisitions are limited. The purpose of this project is to do background research for utilizing...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Healthcare providers and insurers have consolidated in the past decade, leading to higher prices without a commensurate increase in quality. The study will extend the evidence base on the effects of healthcare consolidation, including understanding the impacts of hospital-to-hospital affiliations and the impacts of private equity firms acquiring...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year (but reached $2 to $3 trillion in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid/recession fears, which are...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
AI technology and AI tools will change the healthcare landscape. The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, the project aims to understand AI technology's impact on the broader economy coupled with a focus on healthcare, including diagnostics, treatments, drug development and workflow processes. Second, the project...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesLupe Gallegos-Diaz - Lecturer, Chicanx Latinx Academic Student Development Office
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will be researching the various roles that Chicanxs and Latinxs alumni have played on the UC Berkeley campus. The research project will uplift, highlight and recognize 1) Chicanx Latinx alumni 2) their various intersectional identities focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, class and regionality 3)and generational...
150 Years of Women at Berkeley Social SciencesLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
American desert cities designed and built at the turn of the century, in collaboration with the advent of air-conditioning technologies, have been able to house millions of Americans by relying primarily on fossil-fuels to supply relief from extreme hot weather. The Phoenix Metro Area, or The Valley of...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
To address the phenomenon of extreme weather conditions in relationship with the increase in energy instability, I have tested a series of experimental ideas for managing interior environments through pavilions, installations, exhibitions and essays. These tests put forth architectures that engage environmental management through design tactics and with reduced reliance...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Project 1: Hard and Soft Entrepreneurship Skills for youth in Uganda, Two RCTs *** We study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship programs. and innovative youth skill-development and entrepreneurship interventions (Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development, SEED, and the Educate! Experience) were implemented...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In your application, please indicate whether you are interested in project 2A or 2B - 2A, LIFT: general comms, events, and website support - 2B, LIFT: Blockchain white paper The Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is a new and exciting initiative housed at the Institute for Business and Social Impact at Haas...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is a new and exciting initiative housed at the Institute for Business and Social Impact at Haas. Personalization of financial technology (Fintech) promises to transform the financial well-being of customers and financial firms alike and generate new opportunities in the fields of decision...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project 4. Research on labor economics and inequality in the United States Project abstract: This project has two goals. First, this project investigates the extent to which racial preferences in labor demand practices prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reinforced occupational sorting or exclusion of black employees across...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristy Getz, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Local governments in California can exert a great deal of control over what counts is agriculture and who counts as a farmer. This project seeks to explore the mechanisms and policy instruments through which local governments, especially at the county level, define and defend the boundaries of acceptable agriculture, and...
Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project looks at how communities of organisms come together, and the role of ecology (migrating into a community, trophic level) and evolution (adaptation and speciation) in determining the composition of species in a community. This in turn will provide information on sensitivity to invasion and probability of speciation and...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesRosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
No matter the size, all organisms interact with the world via their senses. Sensory input dictates reactions to stimuli, and the ability of organisms to adapt their neurological and sensory structures is critical to success and survival. Web building spiders in particular use webs as an extension and enhancement of...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesRosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
There are two key projects here: (1) Temporal Diversification and Evolutionary History of the Cribellum in Mesh-web Spiders: Webs play many essential roles in spider biology, including communication, prey capture, locomotion, and reproduction. One interesting morphological feature of many spiders is the cribellum, a plate located near the silk...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesRosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the biodiversity of insects and spiders on Pacific islands. Biodiversity surveys often accumulate a ton of specimens, but it is usually hard to figure out what the species actually are. Many species cannot be identified because they are immature, or are not yet described. In this...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This book project examines photographs and photographic albums of the gulags, or Soviet forced labor camps, from the 1930s onwards, in particular the little-known visual legacy of the gulag system in Kazakhstan, and its relationship to forced sedentarization. These state-produced images entirely elide the violence of the forced...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This book project examines the idea of the exhausted body and the need for its revitalization in Soviet art and thinking of the 1920s and 1930s. How was the body damaged by war, overwork, trauma, and material scarcity to be revitalized? How was it to be represented? Could art help...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project centers on locating little-known primary sources on art in Soviet-art Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in the 1920s and 1930s and 1950s and 1960s...
Arts & HumanitiesBethany Goldblum - Research Engineer, Nuclear Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Organic scintillators are materials that emit light when excited by ionizing radiation. They are particularly attractive for fast neutron detection with applications in fusion diagnostics, nuclear security and proliferation detection technologies, and curiosity-driven science. Our group develops new methods for characterization and application of organic scintillator-based detectors at...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesBethany Goldblum - Research Engineer, Nuclear Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
NucScholar is a software platform in development for the retrieval, categorization, and recommendation of nuclear physics literature. The current means by which researchers and nuclear data evaluators identify and process bibliographic information is the Nuclear Science References (NSR) database, the starting point for all nuclear structure evaluations and a platform...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesBethany Goldblum - Research Engineer, Nuclear Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Effective nuclear proliferation detection is hindered by the need to continuously verify the absence of undeclared nuclear materials and nuclear weapons-relevant activities. Multisensor data fusion has the potential to provide an integrated picture of difficult to detect phenomena, where composite signals can be used as proliferation indicators. Recent developments...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAnu Manchikanti Gomez - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Misinformation (factually incorrect information) and disinformation (misinformation that is spread intentionally) about contraception and abortion are serious and worsening threats to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The spread and impact of misinformation has been exacerbated by social media. TikTok specifically is widely used by young people and has been identified...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesXiaohua Gong - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The research in the lab has been directed to study molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the development of the eye and the lens and to investigate the underlying mechanisms of different eye diseases including cataract and retinal degeneration by using techniques from the fields of molecular and cellular biology...
Biological & Health SciencesXiaohua Gong - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project will mainly focus on RNA sequencing and differential expression analysis for comparing genetically mutated mice with wild-type mice. It aims to find target genes involved in cataract formation, retinal degeneration and lens growth...
Biological & Health SciencesAlison Gopnik - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
How does empowerment affect preschool aged children’s exploration and casual learning? All applicants must fill out the URAP application both on this portal and via the Google Form: https://forms.gle/Y51rrytNsC2wGNew6...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesEmily Gottreich - Professor, Global Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project identifies and analyzes a growing trend across the Islamic world, whereby unprecedented levels of attention and resources are currently being devoted to the preservation, renovation, and in some cases creation of Jewish heritage sites. It surveys projects like the refurbishing of synagogues and cemeteries as well as...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDarcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
My new book is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. Research entails locating pertinent sources such as paint kits, how-to books and...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Are you from Computer Science and want to know how to program in an agile project? Ok, this position is for you! We must have all our sample inventory organized… but it is time to be modern! We need a web application to do that! Do we know exactly how...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Background: Sleep disturbance is common among patients with neurodegenerative diseases. For instance, patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experience excessive daytime sleepiness and sundowning. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) features hyperarousal and decreased homeostatic sleep drive. Sleep disturbance generally precedes disease-defining symptoms, often by decades, suggesting that dysregulation of sleep is...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The importance of histology to neuropathological research cannot be overstated. As a neurology lab, the histological characterization of proteopathies (including tauopathies, Aβ-amyloidosis, synucleiopathies, etc.) is core to our operations. From determining severity/progression of the pathology to identifying areas of selective vulnerability, immunohistochemistry and microscopy are critical tools for...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Despite intensive research on AD, effective disease-modifying treatments remain elusive, and novel tools for non-invasively assessing early brains lesions are needed. Our lab confirmed that the brain structures that consistently exhibit the earliest neuropathologic changes in AD, including neuronal loss, are not classically AD-associated cortical regions, but...
Biological & Health SciencesKarsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
My research team is part of a handful of laboratories around the world that is focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of protective lipid mediator programs that are essential for regulating and orchestrating routine and healthy immune responses and neuroprotection. Research in our lab uses in vitro and...
Biological & Health SciencesKarsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Assist in the preparation of biological samples, carry out solid phase extractions for isolation of bioactive lipids. Learn, assist and eventually run an HPLC-mass spectrometry system. The position requires a high degree of motivation and organizational skill as well as the ability to operate complex and state-of-the...
Biological & Health SciencesKarsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We are focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of neuroprotective lipid mediators essential for inhibiting the death of retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma. We are interested in using single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics, and lipidomics as a tool to investigate and understand the protective mechanisms in glaucoma pathogenesis...
Biological & Health SciencesYangnan Gu - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Plant's responses to external stimuli are highly dependent on the shuttling of intracellular signals to the nucleus, where the genome is reprogrammed to drive transcriptome changes to combat stress. A fundamentally important aspect of this process is the nuclear transport of stress-related signaling cargos mediated by nuclear transport receptors...
Biological & Health SciencesYangnan Gu - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The nuclear envelope (NE) is structurally and functionally vital for eukaryotic cells, yet its protein constituents and their functions are poorly understood in plants. We combined subtractive proteomics and the proximity labeling technology-coupled with quantitative mass spectrometry to understand the landscape of NE membrane proteins in Arabidopsis and identified...
Biological & Health SciencesKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks undergraduates that are interested in learning about how to design learning environments that center equity, sustainability, and the radical transformation of systems of inequality that emerge in educational contexts. Specifically, undergraduates will engage readings, data, and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students to develop analyses for...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The anti-testing opt-out movement is a grassroots movement in which parents/guardians choose not to have their children participate in their school’s statewide testing. This research is a social media ethnography in which we critically examine the discourse used in posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Writing Data Stories is a new project that seeks to reorganize how young people, especially linguistically and ethnoracially minoritized students, learn about and interact with data. A partnership including Bay Area schools, UC Berkeley, the Concord Consortium, North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin, the project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJunko Habu - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At our East Asian Archaeology Laboratory, we are analyzing artifacts and faunal/floral remains excavated from Jomon period sites in Japan. Jomon is the name of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture in Japan, which lasted from approximately 13000 to 2300 years ago. Unlike many other hunter-gatherer cultures, the Jomon...
Social SciencesJunko Habu - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project, you will have an opportunity to work on some of the food related issues faced by the contemporary society, with a focus on examples from Japan. As part of the umbrella project that examines the advantages of small scale food production and distribution mechanisms in terms of...
Social SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The focus of the lab is to understand development; that is, the molecular mechanisms that orchestrate how a single cell (the egg) transforms into an adult animal with a multitude of functioning organs, following a specific body plan. The first milestone in the establishment of the body plan is to...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Sleep has been shown to be crucial to animal life. Moreover, sleep deprivation during the development of the fetus leads to emotional and cognitive effects in the offspring later in life. Unfortunately, the mechanism behind these behaviors are not defined due to the technical and ethical impediments related to human...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We will isolate DNAs encoding cytoskeletal regulators, describe their expression, and knock-out or add back functions to determine whether they are active in controlling cell behaviors. Background. Amphibian embryos have been valuable models to examine the behaviors of cells that contribute to the shape changes of the embryo. The...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Though sleep is pervasive across animals, the core function of this deeply conserved behavior remains unknown. Sleep has been hypothesized to serve many roles, from the replenishing of molecules consumed during periods of activity, to the facilitation of learning and the formation of long term memories. Recently, colleagues and I...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
With 3.6 billion people living at risk of infection, and approximately 400 million infections and 96 million cases per year, dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral illness. The disease spectrum includes dengue fever, characterized by debilitating symptoms such as high fever and myalgia; and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) cause the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, with 100 million cases annually. The mechanisms by which the human immune response to DENV provides either protection against or enhancement of a subsequent infection with a different DENV serotype are not fully understood...
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