Project Search Options
Enter one or more search options below then click the Search button.
Click on a project's title to view more details.
Dor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyDor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
What do dancing and geometrical proof have in common? Turns out that in both of these disparate practices, we imagine lines to solve the common problem of perceptually engaging the environment to perform sensorimotor tasks. In dance, these lines have been called “attentional anchors.” In geometry, these lines are called...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyKathryn 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...
Social SciencesKathryn Abrams - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will have two facets: 1) Some students will work with the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (in collaboration with Arneta Rogers, the executive director, and me). CRRJ brings together organizers, advocates, scholars, and students; it focuses primarily on reproductive justice issues, which involve group based inequalities in...
Social SciencesVinod 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...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of an American-led era characterized by multilateralism and expanding international trade. This period witnessed a rapid shift toward greater openness, globalization, and opportunities for mutual economic gain. However, in recent years, there has been a notable rise in legislation and...
Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesKatie Albright, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
E3C is building a public-impact alliance to strengthen early childhood systems in California. This URAP role will help E3C grow and connect three networks that help make systems change possible: (1) our alumni network, (2) internal interdisciplinary connections across UC Berkeley centers and programs, and (3) community and public...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesCameron 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social SciencesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In the wake of the events of Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, the descriptive and substantive under-representation of minorities in local governments has become an issue of pressing concern. Reformers and litigators have focused almost exclusively on the notion that minority representation is a simple matter of creating minority-majority...
Social SciencesSarah 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...
Social SciencesFolklore Archivist - Archivist, Folklore Program
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Folklore Archive is seeking a detail-oriented student to help digitize archival materials. This role provides a hands-on opportunity to engage with archival processes and contribute to the preservation and dissemination of rich cultural materials from the Berkeley Folklore Archive. No prior experience in archival work or digitization...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesColette (Coco) Auerswald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
BACKGROUND 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 people with lived experience of homelessness or that have a deep commitment to ending youth homelessness. This includes youth community...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this set of research projects is to understand how people experience the psychological phenomenon of authenticity. These research questions include - what personality traits are associated with seeming the most authentic? How does the use of rationales or explanations impact perceptions of authenticity? What role does self-awareness...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A core human desire is to express and share our inner world with others. However, try as we might, we often fail to do so fully. In fact, a central human experience is being misunderstood by others. While common, we currently know very little about the psychological consequences of feeling...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this research project is to examine law enforcement and civilian interactions from a micro-psychological perspective. In particular, I am interested in the cultural factors that lead to better (or worse) outcomes. I am utilize a variety of open-source and large archival datasets, as well as...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to understand the impact of current immigration policies on undocumented students' pursuit of higher education. Its goals are twofold: (1) to identify which immigration policies in the United States support higher education for undocumented students, and (2) to determine whether Higher Education Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Emerging...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesSara 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...
Social SciencesSara 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...
Social SciencesSara 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...
Social SciencesSara 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...
Social SciencesJeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
INDICATION OF INTEREST - JANUARY 12, 2026: Fill out this form ASAP so I can contact you during the application period about an information session and other topics: https://forms.gle/eYRcXJFNAVSub3T4A **** **** UPDATE - JANUARY 15 - INFO SESSION **** We are tentatively planning an information session on Thursday January 22 at 7:15 pm in...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyMatteo 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesMatteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
There are two related projects under this title. For Project #1 (currently full for new apprentices): 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...
Social SciencesJill 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...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social SciencesAnne 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...
Social SciencesJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At the Global Opportunity Lab (gol.berkeley.edu), we view the world’s most pressing policy challenges as opportunities to develop transformative policy solutions. Harnessing state-of-the-art data science, computation, and analytic tools, we generate insights and innovations that promote prosperity and expand opportunity across the globe. Our lab is currently...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua 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...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua 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...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sustainable sand mining is one of the most pressing ecological challenges currently facing the planet. After water, sand is the world’s most valuable natural resource – over 50 billion tons of construction-grade sand and gravel were mined globally from rivers and beaches in 2021, accounting for 85% of all mineral...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceSabrina Boyce - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
p><strong>Faculty Mentor:</strong> Dr. Sabrina Boyce<br> <strong>Day-to-Day Supervision:</strong> Ricardo Vera Monroy, M.S. (Data Analyst) or Emma Jackson, M.P.H. (Program Manager)</p> <h3>Project Description</h3> <p>Sexual and dating violence (SV/DV) and child sexual abuse (CSA) have far-reaching health and social...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores how racism and racial geographies were reenacted after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It traces the redevelopment of three neighborhoods and the evolution of planning processes and development decisions, asking who they most benefit and who they most exclude...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Black meccas have been characterized by their economic and political opportunities and their cultural and social characteristics. Known for drawing African Americans to specific urban territories, black meccas have historically brought Blacks great social, economic, and psychological benefits, despite the vast inequalities and denigration they have faced in America. Yet...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores systems of patriarchy through a feminist lens, conceptualizing the everydayness and ubiquity of patriarchal power. Drawn initially from personal experiences, I am interested in naming the divergent array of patriarchal practices and conceptually mapping the various ways that patriarchy and anti-feminist systems imprint spatial and social...
Social SciencesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Monitoring the status of wildlife populations is critical to assessing ecosystem health. Rapid advances in machine learning have recently allowed researchers to deploy acoustic recorders that autonomously capture and classify animal vocalizations, such as birds calls. Currently, UC Berkeley is preparing to launching the first ever SoundHub -- an open source...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Several aspects of global change are changing the dynamics of fire ecology across California and around the world. Recent fires have had devastating effects on livelihoods across the state, but little remains known of the direct and indirect impacts of these fires on wildlife species and the implications of those...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues