URAP

Dor Abrahamson - Professor, Education

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students’ documented difficulties with adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. The design utilizes MOVES, a technological architecture that combines floor- and screen-projected interactive interfaces. Students enact arithmetic operations, e.g., “3 - (-2)” by walking along a projected (more...)

Kathryn Abrams - Professor, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project examines the mobilization of undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, beginning with resistance to SB 1070 and "enforcement by attrition" and continuing through the Trump administration. It seeks explain the emergence of a social movement of undocumented immigrants and analyze the practices through which social movement organizations support (more...)

Kathryn Abrams - Professor, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project will focus on social movement activity, and analyze the legal strategies, tactical choices, and coalition building involved in rebuilding reproductive rights and attacking structural sources of reproductive inequality (including inequality on the basis of race, socioeconomic status, and immigration status) in abortion restrictive states. Currently the research is (more...)

Sabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The deaths of Undocumented Border Crossers (UBC’s) continue to remain an area of engagement and research among bioanthropologists within the United States, specifically in the border states of Arizona, Texas, and California. Ongoing research within the Skeletal Biology lab seeks to analyze skeletal samples from the Pima County Office of (more...)

Sabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Working with human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, bioarchaeologists can help to reconstruct health profiles of past peoples. While there is good deal of historical and archaeological research on the later Middle Ages in Europe and more specifically in Italy, bioarchaeological studies of from Medieval Italy have focused primarily on (more...)

Sabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

An ongoing research of PI Agarwal's research and writing delves into the bioethics of bioarchaeological practice, scientific racism, and osteological conservation and collection. This project is focused on the history and ethical responsibility of scientists working with skeletal anatomical legacy collections particularly from India. India was the primary global red (more...)

Vinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutes, and centers from Berkeley and around the world to foster collaborative research on APEC and other trade-related issues. We are looking for students interested in working on the US-China superpower competition, particularly (more...)

Vinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

In a world of rising inequality and globalization, international coordination on tax policy has increased in importance. In this project, I investigate how international tax coordination was formed between states and how changes to the global tax rules affect the international investment environment. I argue that the global minimum tax (more...)

Vinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Business and Politics is an internationally ranked, peer-reviewed international political economy journal. This is a fantastic opportunity for students who desire social science writing and editing experience. This URAP also provides a unique inside look at the academic publishing process (more...)

Vinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

While most developing countries have adopted renewable energy policies, adopters vary widely in their success to kickstart a renewable energy industry. Some have installed a lot of renewable energy like Thailand and Vietnam, while others like Indonesia struggle to sustain investment. This project leverages firm level data to understand how (more...)

Alice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Description: Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). Our first target market is the HazMat and CBRNE (Chemical, biological (more...)

Alice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). This semester we will focus on smart sensor robots for early detection (more...)

Alice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Project #1. theDesignExchange.org: (1) theDesignExchange: We are in the process of designing and developing the DesignExchange, an interactive web portal for the design and design strategy community. The DesignExchange aims to meet three needs: consolidate and organize the many design and design research methods used, develop a community of practitioners (more...)

Alice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     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 (more...)

Amani Allen - Professor, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Did you know that Latina women in the United States often face unique forms of discrimination and racism? Studies show that these experiences can significantly impact their mental and physical health. Latinas are not only navigating a complex social landscape but also shaping vibrant cultural narratives amidst these challenges. Join (more...)

Cameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Apprentices are needed to work on a project related to power and risk-taking. Students will participate in a major meta-analysis project in which the effect of power on risk-taking is tested. Students will be responsible for reviewing relevant academic papers and their findings to be included in (more...)

Cameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Please write Project 2: Social Psychology and Business Lab at the top of your application if you are interested in applying to our lab. We are seeking to recruit 2-3 new Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research (more...)

Cameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

PLEASE SPECIFY in your application if you are interested in working on this project by mentioning the project title*** We are seeking to recruit a couple of Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research lab. Our goal is (more...)

Cameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Apprentices are needed to work on projects related to perceptions of competence and social status. Students will conduct a major new lab experiment in which participants are videotaped conducting a consulting case interview. Students may be trained as interviewers, or manage lab logistics. Students will examine perceptions of competence and (more...)

Christopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Advanced German, Polish, or Hungarian language skills are needed to participate in this project.** The European continent has undergone major shifts since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eleven countries have emerged from a totalitarian Communist system, embracing capitalism and democracy and joining the European Union. These transitions had major (more...)

Christopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The European Union is a complex international organization that influences all aspects of contemporary European politics and society. While scholars have studied how the European Union interacts with nations a great deal, it is often portrayed as having a limited capacity to enforce its rules and norms at the national (more...)

Christopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Parliamentary questions are one of the key means of oversight in the European Union. This project aims to analyze the ways that this oversight process is used at the European level through large scale, quantitative text analysis, machine learning, and statistical methods as well as finalize the data structure for (more...)

Sarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The research is focused on local politics in the United States and will support a project about decision-making in local government. This project explores: 1) what local officials vote on in in US local government, 2) the role of partisanship in voting, and 3) how municipality size conditions the (more...)

Sarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project examines the role of businesses and business associations in local politics and local government in the United States. The project has two parts. One is a qualitative data collection focused on the local policy priorities and goals of chambers of commerce in cities and counties across the country (more...)

Folklore Archivist - Archivist, Folklore Program

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Students applying would ideally already be familiar with folklore genres (e.g. by having taken Anthropology 160, The Forms of Folklore, or an equivalent course) but we are also excited to welcome new students who are interested in learning more about the field. The basic work will entail filing, cataloging and (more...)

Colette (Coco) Auerswald - Professor, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) is a research team based in i4Y (Innovations for Youth), a Berkeley School of Public Health research center. YAAH is made up of youth community members with lived experience of homelessness, undergraduate and graduate students who have experienced homelessness and/or who have demonstrated (more...)

Milton Azevedo - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The project is intended to originate an essay-length study of the situation of the Spanish language in this country, including but not limited to its use in Hispanic/Latino communities, the press, radio, and television, education, government, and other areas, as well as the influence of English on Spanish (more...)

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper (more...)

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Background: Mam is one of the Mayan languages whose ancestral community spans southern Mexico and western Guatemala. According to the Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VII de Vivienda (2018), there are 842, 252 Mam speakers living in Guatemala, with the largest communities in Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. This project (more...)

Sara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson (more...)

Sara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson (more...)

Sara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson (more...)

Sara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This is a joint project with Autodesk (and its Innovation Genome project) and the Nobel Foundation. Autodesk has for the past few years been studying the 1000 greatest innovations in history to uncover common principles that lead to innovation. In this project, we will examine Nobel prize winners, particularly those (more...)

Gasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project models spoken language from raw audio using deep generative neural networks (GANs). We use audio, neural, and behavioral data in spoken language to better understand and interpret deep learning models (more...)

Jeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

STUDENT TESTIMONIALS “This apprenticeship has been the highlight of my time at Berkeley. It has given me a chance to help patients in difficult medical situations, and as a pre-health undergraduate, this is important to me.” “It is a great opportunity to get clinical experience and work with like (more...)

Matteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

In this project we plan to study the effect of financial influencers on asset markets. We will identify influencers in popular general platforms (e.g., twitter, instagram) and platform more specific for investments (e.g., StockTwits). We plan to study for both stocks and cryptocurrencies trading activities and return performances of retail (more...)

Matteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The project is part of a large agenda trying to understand how banks compete in an evolving environment affected by changing demographics and the entry non fintech lenders and bigtech firms. One project is studying the heterogeneous preferences of borrowers and savers to explain the lengthening of the financial intermediation (more...)

Jill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

I am engaged in research that examines state policies regarding the imposition of child support payments for parents whose children are in foster care. An obscure federal policy allows states to charge parents when their children are placed in foster care. My work focuses on examining these policies across states (more...)

Jill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The U.S. is the only country in the world that has not signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The position of children in this country is therefore ambiguous and contested. Examining news stories that pertain to children and families over the past five years, this study (more...)

Jill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Transgender children are disproportionately overrepresented in the United States child welfare system and experience many unique challenges during their child welfare experiences. The state of California began collecting data on transgender children in the child welfare system in 2019, but before this data can be analyzed, social workers' use of (more...)

Jill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

In California, child protective services (CPS) investigators are required by law to evaluate reports of maltreatment in screened-in calls from the hotline and remove children from caregivers (and/or parents) who demonstrate evidence or significant risk of harm towards the child. In certain cases, caregivers may appeal on a (more...)

Sonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

General to all projects listed: Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people (more...)

Sonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people with different psychiatric disorders (such (more...)

Sonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

General to all projects: Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people with (more...)

Sonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     

In this project, we are using multi-feature encoding models to analyse functional magnetic resonance imaging data collected when participants look at naturalistic examples of emotional faces. The goal is to better understand how tuning to facial information (expression, gender, age etc) varies across the cortical surface of the human (more...)

Lisa Bloom - Scholar-in-Residence, Gender and Women's Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Building upon the ideas presented in my recent book, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic, published by Duke University Press (2022), we will delve into new avenues of research and writing. This fall, we aim to explore the vital role of artist-activists (more...)

Anne Bloom - Executive Director, Law

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) is a think tank that explores, through interdisciplinary, academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief. The CJRI is chaired by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and directed by Anne Bloom, an attorney (more...)

Joshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Access to credit can be an important lifeline, but it can also lock people into debt traps. Mobile banking technologies have completely transformed the ways in which people, especially in the developing world, access credit, raising new questions about fairness and welfare in lending. The goal of this project is (more...)

Joshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Over the past decade, the rapid proliferation of mobile phones, satellites, and other digital sensors has created tremendous opportunities to measure human behavior. These data also provide the foundation for the growing interdisciplinary field of computational social science. Non-traditional “big” data hold unique potential in developing and conflict-affected (more...)

Joshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Data-Intensive Development Lab at UC Berkeley (didl.berkeley.edu) is providing data science support to the governments of several Low and Middle Income Countries, as well as humanitarian organizations like GiveDirectly, who are doing their best to effectively respond to the evolving humanitarian crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (more...)