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Eva 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
Previous studies in the Harris laboratory have demonstrated the ability of the secreted flaviviral protein, nonstructural protein 1 (NS1), to induce both hyperpermeability in vitro and vascular leak in vivo, both mediated by the disruption of endothelial glycocalyx components and intercellular junction degradation. Further work in the lab aims at...
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
Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) flaviruses are mosquito-borne viruses that are major medical and public health problems worldwide. DENV causes the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, and severe cases manifesting vascular leakage can be fatal. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is a flaviviral protein that participates in...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH APPRENTICES - Please do not apply unless you can commit 9~12 hrs/wk (3 units) including mandatory online weekly meetings on Wednesday afternoons (exact time TBA). Want to gain work experience with Exhibit Development, Web Development, Data Science, Online Advertising, Art History, Media Archiving, Video Editing...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will conduct research to support development of new writing projects and possible new course offerings on the topics of AI Ethics and Social Media...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am conducting research on the ways in which ecosystems of philanthropic funding affect the possibilities of innovation in the nonprofit sector. I am particularly focused on comparing the ways in which nonprofit and venture capital fundraising differ, and how philanthropic funders may be able to borrow techniques from venture...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesGillian Hart - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am working on a book that compares the rise of right-wing nationalisms and populist politics in South Africa, India and the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Instead of seeing the three countries as separate cases or bounded units, the idea is to bring them into...
Social SciencesJohn Harte - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will work with Prof. Harte to formulate and explore mathematical models describing ecosystems that are far from steady state as a consequence of human and/or natural disturbance. Testing of model predictions with available data sets will also be carried...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesJohn Harte - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Vegetation and microclimate data collected from Sierran red fir forest will be used to assess the role of environmental parameters (e.g., temperature, soil moisture) in successful establishment of conifer tree seedlings. The project will advance niche theory by examining spatially-explicit relationships between the environmental parameters and measures of seedling...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of the Evaluation of a Habit-based Sleep Health Intervention study is too evaluate if the Habit-based Sleep Health Intervention (‘HABITs’)—a novel low-cost approach derived by leveraging the science of habit formation—improves the utilization of sleep health behavior and improves sleep and circadian outcomes...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Description of Research: Sleep problems negatively impact mental and physical health. However, relatively few providers are trained in evidence-based treatments for sleep problems. Our team (the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic directed by Dr. Allison Harvey) trained providers working in community mental health centers to deliver an...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of the NIA study is improve sleep and circadian functioning, daytime functioning, and well-being for midlife and older adults by utilizing a transdiagnostic sleep and circadian treatment...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP fall term project be library based, reading through the literature on archaeobotanical organic remains from both the Amazon and Andean regions of South America to get the current assessment of where plants were domesticated and how they moved throughout the continent. The student will bring together a range...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
UC Berkeley's McCown archaeobotany laboratory completes a range of archaeological analyses and research. This project will focus on visualizing the archaeological plant and animal remains that have been excavated across an early residential settlement using ARCGIS to create three dimensional distribution maps of the ecofacts to study past foodways and...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project involves first-hand research experience with archaeological plant remains in the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory with Dr. Christine Hastorf and PhD student Elizabeth Dresser-Kluchman. The student will assist with the analysis of carbonized plant remains from the Gallina area in Northern New Mexico. This area was occupied...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The tech sector has a gender problem. Women are underrepresented in engineering and management jobs. Journalists and industry veterans have documented the bro culture that pervades tech and leads to discrimination and harassment. With 2 PhD students, I am analyzing gender inequality in the tech sector in 2 separate (but...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
My research team is analyzing employee reviews from Glassdoor.com to understand what topics or themes are most salient to employees. In other words, we want to know what employees say when they describe their jobs and workplaces. Although there has been a lot of research on a few topics that...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Avoided deforestation (also called REDD+) is generating the greatest number of credits on the offset market. The goal of this project is to study the quality of these avoided deforestation offset credits. This is an interdisciplinary study involving ten...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Many offset credits sold on the offset market represent significantly less climate benefit than they claim. We are conducting a series of studies of major offset project types to better understand their impact and quality...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's Voluntary Registry Offsets Database is an important source of information and transparency in the carbon offset market and has been widely used by researchers, offset credit raters, offset buyers, and others. We welcome help from two or three advanced undergraduate students in automating the database...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesCori Hayden - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a study of emergent and contested paradigms for understanding post-viral chronic illness. It has a historical dimension, a social theory dimension, and an anthro/science studies component. It focuses on how the proponents of competing paradigms are participating in a complicated public performance of power, legitimacy...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLin He - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Choroid plexus (ChP) epithelia contain multiple cilia per cells. Its major function is to secrete cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to provide nutrients to the neurons and to cushion the brain from injury and inflammation. Defects in ChP lead to hydrocephalus, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the brain ventricles. Aberrant CSF...
Biological & Health SciencesLin He - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences capable of “moving” (transpose) within a genome. RNA transposons (retrotransposon) use RNA intermediate and a “copy and paste” mechanism to transpose. Retrotransposons, with their “copy and paste” mechanism, have accumulated and become abundant in our genome, comprising ~38% of the human and mouse genome...
Biological & Health SciencesLin He - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In mammals, female fertility is determined by the ovarian reserve of primordial follicles and the quality of mature MII oocytes. In humans, female fertility declines significantly after 35, with a rapid reduction in ovarian reserve and a severe deterioration in oocyte competence. On one hand, the pool of primordial follicles...
Biological & Health SciencesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The ability to quantitatively measure changes to the central nervous system is approaching a crucial milestone for neuro-imaging - the ability to measure change on an individual patient level. The Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCSF, in concert with our partners, has prioritized the development of a panoply of neuro-imaging...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Department of Neurology are excited to offer a combined educational and research opportunity for motivated undergraduate students in the medical imaging research team. 3D segmentation of structures in the brain and spinal cord is a problem that deep learning is uniquely equipped...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Neurology has some of the largest clinical neuroimaging datasets in the world. As the director of imaging for the multiple sclerosis group, Dr. Roland Henry’s laboratory is in charge of making sense of this data and applying next generation analytical techniques to translate this raw data into...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Herr - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Imaging data forms the backbone of modern bioengineering research. Analysis of imaging data benefits from creative, methodical algorithm design, rigorous validation, and water-tight documentation and training of users. The student will work independently, in a self-directed but supervised manner to design, develop, validate, and deploy an image processing...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesTodd Hickey - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri is seeking assistance with two digital humanities projects in 2023/24. One involves the upkeep of an online catalogue of papyri (images and metadata); the other, the creation of a digital edition of English-language archival materials (from ca. 1900) concerning the history of Berkeley...
Arts & HumanitiesJulian Hong - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Hong lab is part of the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology and Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. We focus on combining clinical domain knowledge with data science to generate insights from real world data, develop actionable computational tools, and evaluate the benefit of these advances for personalized cancer care...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Our lab is interested in how the brain computes and represents values that allow us to make decisions. These decisions range from the mundane and everyday, such as what to have for lunch, to truly momentous ones such as deciding on where to attend college. This project, and others in...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
As a fast growing branch of artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) has made it possible to uncover subtle patterns and hidden trends in large-scale real-world text data. It offers researchers and practitioners powerful tools to efficiently derive novel insights and predictions that are otherwise expensive or even...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are looking for 1-2 student trainees who are interested in understanding the effects of early-life adversity/stress on economic and financial decision-making. Despite the well-documented fact of the impact of early-life adversity on life-outcomes, researchers and policymakers know much less about the specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project will apply neuroscientific tools and insights to address a problem that has bedeviled businesses, legal scholars, and policymakers—how to more objectively determine whether a work of art is “based on plagiarism” or is “obscene”. In music copyright, for example, a key question is whether two works are...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As shown in our recent publication (Hirose*, Payumo*, et al Science 2019), we aim to understand the divergent regenerative potential in ontogeny and phylogeny. For example, heart regeneration is remarkably robust in adult zebrafish and newborn mice while very limited in adult mammals. We use the heart as a model...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We aim to study whether there are extreme physiological phenomena (1) in individuals with healthy low heart rates (less than 45 beats/min) and (2) among identical twins that can not be explained by any known biological mechanism. We will exploit classical and non-classical model systems to explore these...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Current studies of mouse heart regeneration are largely limited to postmortem analysis of heart tissue to explore cellular activity and molecular mechanisms. We aim to combine a novel imaging window system designed and surgically implanted on the mouse chest by the Huang Lab at UCSF with the free-space angular...
Biological & Health SciencesLaurence Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the most frequent HIV-associated chronic lung disease and its clinical significance is increasing as the HIV+ population ages worldwide. Although both HIV-related and COPD-specific causes are postulated, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying HIV+ COPD is limited. An improved understanding is...
Biological & Health SciencesSa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From recent bans on queer and feminist literature in public school systems, to restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare, to reduced access to reproductive healthcare, gender identity and sexuality is increasingly at the center of political and ideological discourse in the U.S. As a research laboratory studying social identity and hierarchy...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If you were to estimate how much income and wealth the average Black family in the U.S. had relative to their White counterparts in 1963 and 2019, how accurate do you think you would be? It turns out that most people are extremely inaccurate, consistently and systematically overestimating the amount...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever laughed when someone tripped, felt joy when someone faced the consequences of their actions, or celebrated when a rival sports team or political party lost? When people think about the role of emotions in intergroup relations, they tend to think of empathy, commonly defined as the sensitivity...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In 1989, University of California Los Angeles law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to describe how intersecting structures of power shape modes of discrimination and prejudice. Drawing from Black feminism, Crenshaw argued that the discrimination of Black women could not be understood as simply a composite of sexism...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Advanced Berkeley Comfort (ABC) Model is recognized as one of the world's most advanced human thermal comfort models. It simulates many detailed aspects of human thermophysiology (including blood flow, sweating, metabolic activity, thermoreceptor response) and heat transfer (convective, conductive, radiative, evaporative) to predict skin and core temperatures throughout the...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The aim of the project is to develop a web-interactive tool that converts a user’s 15-minute data (i.e. Green Button Data upload or API request) into actual grid carbon emissions (i.e. using Watttime’s API). The tool will have data visualizations that display user’s electricity data and carbon emissions...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) has developed a cost-effective, web-based survey that takes approximately ten minutes to complete. The survey is intuitive and streamlined, preserves the co Developed in 2000 by CBE, the survey has been implemented in over 1,000 building around the world, with responses...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Over 2 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water. Many organizations are working to provide water systems to poor, rural communities across the globe. Gravity-flow water systems, where water flows by gravity without any mechanical pumping, are commonly used in areas with appropriate...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCarly Hyland - Professor, School of Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This pilot study will describe previously uncharacterized worker exposures to work-related stress and constituents of diesel exhaust from off-road diesel equipment through a mixed methods approach. Farmworkers are uniquely vulnerable to job insecurity, low wages, few benefits, long hours, and/or lack of managerial oversight, and experience many...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for two sophomore or junior students who would be interested in working with Dr. Susan Ivey and Dr. Winston Tseng (School of Public Health) to analyze county-level data on overdoses and deaths from overdose, risk factors, and harm reduction policies (fentanyl testing, xylazine testing, Narcan) to...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a consortium of UCB, CSUEB/CSULB, and community colleges around the state to shape a training program in PH informatics which is use of data and visualization of data for public health surveillance, disease tracking, program evaluation, and mapping of data/GIS methods. We are creating a...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will be trained to take blood pressure readings and to use motivational interviewing strategies to help individuals in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to make change in diet, physical activity, smoking, or other lifestyle behaviors. Coaches will work 1:1 with participants to give telephone and person to person support...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory addresses how people learn new motor skills. We study this topic using behavioral and computational methods with healthy and neurologically impaired humans. The neurological studies examine the contribution of different brain structures, especially the cerebellum and basal ganglia, in motor learning to develop functional hypotheses regarding...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology