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Chandra Middleton - Staff Researcher, Center for Law, Energy and the Environment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment’s (CLEE) Climate Break podcast brings listeners stories of climate progress and interviews with climate innovators from California and around the world, in under 2 minutes. Our episodes are solution-oriented and almost entirely produced by Berkeley students—including undergraduates, law students, and...
Environmental IssuesCraig Miller - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
A fantastic diversity in organismal form is seen in nature, yet we know little about the genetic basis of evolutionary change. We are using the head skeleton of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) as a model system to study the genetic basis of development and evolution. Sticklebacks have undergone one...
Biological & Health SciencesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
It has been hypothesized that 10% of taxa introduced into novel environments would naturalize, while only about 10% of naturalized alien taxa would become invasive. I am interested in investigating which traits are commonly found in naturalized and invasive plants in Nigeria, West Africa...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Even though sound and sufficiently robust data is the essence of a good scientific paper, the presentation of the findings is of equally great importance in communicating discoveries to the scientific community and advancing the overall knowledge in a field. Presenting data in a clear and accurate manner and putting...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Herbaria are museums that house collections of preserved plants maintained for scientific purposes. For centuries, plant specimens of all kinds have been collected from near and far, mounted on herbarium sheets, labeled with pertinent data, and stored and maintained for use by the scientific community as well as the public...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Ancient and current anthropogenic activities have resulted in the sweepstakes movement of plant germplasms from their native ranges to new geographical regions. Some of these introduced taxa have become daily staple foods in West Africa (e.g., Zea mays, Manihot esculenta, etc.), and crops with significant economic values (e.g., Theobroma cacao...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This uses focuses on designing and implementing a nationally-representative survey to examine the prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes surrounding child trafficking and forced labor in Jamaica. Previous studies have reported that in Jamaica, 1 in 12 children work at least one hour a week and of those working children, 71.3...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines of how official narratives of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War in national social studies textbooks have shifted over time. Since independence, history textbooks in Bangladesh have been sites of contestation, undergoing politically motivated revisions with each new regime that has come into power. With the goal of examining...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Throughout history, women have often been omitted from narratives and histories of war. A Woman’s War, an oral history project that includes narratives of over 120 women across six countries---Bangladesh, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Vietnam, and the United States---seeks to examine the intersection of individual and collective experiences...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the impact of mental health in post-conflict and forced migration contexts. There are two primary research areas within the larger project: (1) producing a systematic review article on how living through and beyond trauma impact communities affected by conflict and forced migration, and (2) conducting...
Social SciencesRaul Monsalve - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Radio Cosmology Group (RCG) at the Space Sciences Laboratory is a leader in the study of the first billion years of the Universe through the design and operation of state-of-the art radio frequency instrumentation to measure radio waves from space. We are seeking an undergraduate research assistant...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever scored lower on a test than you expected, lost a competition to a competitor you thought you’d trounce, been certain about a fact only to have Google prove you incorrect? People are frequently overconfident. Understanding overconfidence can help us become more accurate about our self-perceptions. Researchers...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Human judgments are routinely biased. Can artificially intelligent agents correct for this human bias and achieve greater accuracy in their judgment...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The scientific world is changing quickly as scientists improve their research practices and correct errors in the published record. This project seeks to test the replicability of published work that is now suspect. This is a chance to play a role in a project in the vanguard of open science...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever read a research article and wondered if the authors truly tested the research question they purported to test? The focus of this project concerns the evaluation of research methodology. You would work primarily with a senior graduate student in the lab on her research. It&amp...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Moore - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Liver Receptor Homolog-1 (LRH-1) is an orphaned nuclear receptor (a family of protein transcription factors that regulate gene expression in the cell). Nuclear receptors contain a physical pocket known as the ligand binding domain (LBD) that is capable of binding and sensing various compounds. LRH-1'...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Moore - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) form a subset of nuclear receptors, currently comprising three distinct members: PPARα, PPARγ, and PPARδ. Each receptor seems to influence pathways situated at the crossroads of intermediary metabolism and inflammation, imparting significant physiological and clinical relevance to them (Bensinger and Tontonoz, 2008). PPARα, a well...
Biological & Health SciencesPriya Moorjani - Professor, Center for Computational Biology, Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Evolutionary history shapes the diversity around us. The historical signatures of our past such as population mixtures, bottlenecks and expansions, as well as human diseases and natural selection, have left traces in our genomes. In our lab, we develop computational methods and analyze large-scale genomic datasets from present-day...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCalvin Morrill - Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In 2019, Facebook and Google reported receiving over 58,000 and 20,000 search warrants respectively. These third-party businesses are not themselves the subjects of inquiry, but possess evidence relevant to investigations of crimes such as homicide, fraud, and harassment. This project studies how technology companies process search warrants, subpoenas, and...
Social SciencesJulian Motzkin - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
When pain becomes chronic, there can be changes in brain areas involved with processing pain signals. Our research combines fMRI of pain circuits with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a type of non-invasive brain stimulation, to determine how rTMS may alleviate difficult-to-treat pain...
Biological & Health SciencesPraveen Mummaneni - Professor, Neurosurgery-Spine
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Assistant will remotely call patients to collect data, assist with data collection and entry, and regularly attend Zoom research meetings...
Biological & Health SciencesMichael Nachman - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Within ~500 years, house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) have expanded into a wide variety of habitats across North and South America. House mice can be found from the tropics to the arctic, and populations inhabiting these different environments have adapted to different thermal regimes. This project will focus on the...
Biological & Health SciencesMichael Nachman - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Within ~500 years, house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) have expanded into a wide variety of habitats across North and South America. House mice can be found from the tropics to the arctic, and populations inhabiting these different environments have adapted to different thermal regimes. Mice from cold regions are larger...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Nachman - Research Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This is an exciting time in high energy physics: there are many experimental and theoretical hints for new phenomena (such as dark matter), yet we do not yet have any significant evidence for new particles or forces of nature since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. This could...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAbhishek Nagaraj - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects that the professor (Abhishek) is working on along in his Data Innovation Lab with PhD students and other research assistants in the Berkeley-Haas School of Business. The idea of this URAP group is to provide students...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesKaren Nakamura - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Disability Lab (https://disabilitylab.berkeley.edu/) has been working on several projects involving disability, technology, art, activism, and access in the Bay Area. We welcome students from all fields of the university (arts, engineering, social sciences, communications, CS, design, music, architecture, etc.), and people with personal experience of disability or...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesOlivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in quantitative marketing and industrial organization, including topics on product variety, pricing, and consumer demand. Examples of ongoing projects include work on optimal platform product variety, product bundling in video game markets, and consumer search and information...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesDenise Neary - Director of Judicial Education, Berkeley Judicial Institute
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI) aims to establish an effective bridge between the legal academy and the judiciary for the primary purpose of promoting an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary. By creating this much needed synergy between the legal academy and the judiciary, BJI also seeks to address the concern...
Social SciencesLeif Nelson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab group studies human judgment and decision making, and are currently investigating cultural differences and similarities between people in the United States and in China. In this position you will work with Professor Leif Nelson on a variety of projects within the Behavioral Lab (BLab) and for the MORS...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyLeif Nelson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore and investigate the intricate realms of judgment and decision-making, blending insights from social psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science. Our central focus is understanding how the framing of a situation or problem can significantly alter human behavior and choices. What You Will Explore...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Direct potable reuse is a form of wastewater reuse where advanced-treated wastewater is introduced directly to the drinking water distribution system. Bench-scale reactors will be used to simulate drinking water distribution system pipes before and during the transition to direct potable reuse conditions. Microbial water quality parameters will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Recovering nutrients from wastewater can solve two problems: reducing eutrophication by eliminating nutrient discharges to the environment, and producing a local fertilizer that has lower embedded energy than industrial fertilizer. Our research aims to produce fertilizer by concentrating ammonium from wastewater and urine using struvite precipitation (for phosphorus) and ion...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Over-dependence on non-renewable inputs and carbon-intensive processes for fertilizer production contribute to the growing challenge of feeding the world’s 7 billion people. Alternatively, it is estimated that the nutrients in human urine could offset one-third of the conventional fertilizer demand in agriculture. In this research, we...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Faithful development and maintenance of cell identity requires that the expression of specific genes is turned on and off in a highly regulated manner. This epigenetic regulation requires that chromatin-modifying complexes can be dynamically recruited across the genome and activated with high spatial and temporal control. Many of these...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The large transcription coactivators TFIID and SAGA play importan roles in the regulation of gene expression. Over a megadalton in size,each of these complexes contains a number of structural modules wit distinct functionalities. Interestingly, they share one particular module that plays different roles and that contains a number of...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
DNA methylation at CpG sites plays an essential role in maintaining genome stability and regulating gene expression and it is strictly monitored and controlled by a series of molecular machines. Defects in DNA methylation are frequently found in severe diseases, such as cancer and Alzheimer's. DNMT1(DNA methyltransferase 1) with...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Accurate segregation of chromosomes during cell division is essential. Microtubules are tube-shaped, dynamic polymers that are a fundamental part of this process. A hallmark of microtubules is their dynamic polymerization and depolymerization behavior at the microtubule plus end known as dynamic instability. For microtubules to function correctly inside the...
Biological & Health SciencesMichael Nylan - Professor, History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to examine many aspects of ancient history from new perspectives, including the environmental and the emotional...
Arts & HumanitiesMoira O'Neill - Professor, Institute for Urban and Regional Development
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
School meal programs play a critical role in addressing childhood hunger, and initiatives to improve healthy eating often target school meal programs for improvement. This research explores how school districts address food access, health, educational, environmental, and social issues simultaneously through comprehensive school meal program reform. This approach to school...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMoira O'Neill - Professor, Institute for Urban and Regional Development
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
California's housing crisis is well known, and scholars attribute this crisis largely to the inadequate supply of housing across multiple income levels. This study explores the relationship between local and state land use regulation and housing supply. We will examine approval processes in selected jurisdictions to understand...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
UCB campus: Bees are responsible for pollination of many food crops and native plants. Moths larvae (caterpillars) are important herbivores of native and domesticated plants. Both bees and moths, therefore, are important indicators of ecosystem health. We are currently working to take high resolution photographs of of the hundreds of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Essig Museum is part of an ongoing large-scale collecting effort on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. We are collecting vast quantities of bizarre and fascinating arthropods, some of which will be new to science. The two main goals of the project are to document the biological diversity...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Essig Museum, in collaboration with other several California institutions, is building a DNA barcode reference library for all species of insects in the state. This includes extracting DNA from identified museum specimens as well as collecting fresh specimens from around the state. The end goal is to develop a...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Natural History Museums are repositories for biodiversity research, documentation of the impacts of global change, and a resource for new and innovative science. Managing these collections requires expertise in many disparate disciplines such as library science, anatomy & morphology, taxonomy, and data management. The Essig Museum houses over 5 million specimens...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYuko Oda - Research Staff, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of our research is to identify a mechanism how somatic stem cells determine their cell fate through stage or cell specific transcriptional and epigenetic program. We hypothesized that the vitamin D receptor and its regulator of Mediator is critical for temporal or spatial specific transcription to control epithelial...
Biological & Health SciencesMarit Oieroset - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Earth’s magnetotail is a dynamic space plasma environment where energy is continuously built up and released in the form of high-speed plasma jets, high energy particles, and bright auroral displays. The main physical process responsible for this energy release is believed to be magnetic reconnection, a universal plasma...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMitsuo Oka - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
NASA’s Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission consists of a fleet of four spacecraft orbiting Earth. Since its launch in 2015, it has made significant progress in our understanding of the planet's plasma environment, in particular the electron-scale physics of explosive energy-release phenomena. In 2024, NASA will change...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesDaniel Okamoto - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Climate change is dramatically altering the oceans. These changes include increases in sea surface temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and primary productivity. We use experiments and field data to assess how these changes affect the physiology, growth, reproduction, and behavior of marine animals. We have numerous samples from past experiments and...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesRusen Oktem - Project Scientist, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The goal of this project is to develop a stereo camera calibration code that will use stellar objects as references. We have multiple stereo cameras that are installed in the field collecting data on atmospheric clouds. We need to use known locations of objects to calibrate these cameras for stereo...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesRusen Oktem - Project Scientist, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We have been collecting camera images at multiple locations to study atmospheric clouds for the past 6+ years. Extracting clouds from the background is an essential and challenging step before processing these images. The challenges mostly arise from varying environmental conditions and cloud characteristics. The expected outcome of the project...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences