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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
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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. The primary focus of...
Social SciencesSabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In 1855 Puerto Rico was struck by a cholera epidemic that killed nearly 10% of the population. Due to the high volume of the deceased and fear of the disease spreading further, a cemetery outside of the city walls of San Juan was established. With time, this mass grave was...
Social SciencesSabrina 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...
Social SciencesSabrina 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...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: 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...
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: 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...
Social SciencesAlice 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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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 SciencesAmani Allen - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social 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: Check back for status 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
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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: 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
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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 and undergraduate and graduate students who have experienced homelessness and/or who have...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesColette (Coco) Auerswald - Professor, Public Health
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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...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesPaola Bacchetta - Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project focuses on surfacing and centering the wisdom of indigenous women elders from Mesoamerica. The research includes library, archival, and database work, along with some transcribing of digital audio files. We will be analyzing and organizing narratives to surface nuance healing modalities that have existed for centuries and are...
Social 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 & 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: 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
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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: Check back for status 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 SciencesGasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
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This project looks at language in deep neural networks, animals (whales, elephants, spiders), and humans. We model 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMatteo 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
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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
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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...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 SciencesSonia 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...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia 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...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia 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...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia 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...
Education, Cognition & Psychology 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 SciencesSabrina Boyce - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Sexual and dating violence (SV/DV) is pervasive in communities and disproportionately impacts marginalized populations. SV/DV during adolescence (ages 13-17) has immediate and long-term health consequences, including increased risk of future victimization, poor sexual and reproductive health, substance use, depressive symptoms and suicidality, across the life course. Currently...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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...
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