URAP

Cori Hayden - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project is a study of emergent and contested paradigms for understanding post-viral chronic illness. It has a historical dimension, a social theory dimension, and an anthro/science studies component. It focuses on how the proponents of competing paradigms are participating in a complicated public performance of power, legitimacy...

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

From recent bans on queer and feminist literature in public school systems, to restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare, to reduced access to reproductive healthcare, gender identity and sexuality is increasingly at the center of political and ideological discourse in the U.S. As a research laboratory studying social identity and hierarchy...

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project 2A: If you were to estimate how much income and wealth the average Black family in the U.S. had relative to their White counterparts in 1963 and 2019, how accurate do you think you would be? It turns out that most people are extremely inaccurate, consistently and systematically overestimating...

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Have you ever laughed when someone tripped, felt joy when someone faced the consequences of their actions, or celebrated when a rival sports team or political party lost? When people think about the role of emotions in intergroup relations, they tend to think of empathy, commonly defined as the sensitivity...

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

In 1989, University of California Los Angeles law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to describe how intersecting structures of power shape modes of discrimination and prejudice. Drawing from Black feminism, Crenshaw argued that the discrimination of Black women could not be understood as simply a composite of sexism...

Susan Ivey - Professor, Public Health

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are seeking 1 additional student for Spring. This project is a consortium of UCB, CSUEB/CSULB, and community colleges around the state to shape a training program in PH informatics which is use of data and visualization of data for public health surveillance, disease tracking, program evaluation, and mapping...

Susan Ivey - Professor, Public Health

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This is a qualitative study of Medicaid-insured pregnant patients and barriers to care in safety net obstetric settings. Patients are in the UCSF system and will be interviewed about barriers to care and videovisit access using open-ended questions, in English and Spanish...

Sheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The goal of this study is to use cognitive training and cognitive behavioral training to promote better emotion regulation. We are testing a novel program, N-ACT, which involves 8 sessions of practicing executive control tasks while exposed to pictures designed to invoke emotion. In each session, clients will also...

Sheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

CALM Program researchers in UC Berkeley's psychology department are seeking a highly-motivated advanced undergraduate (or graduate) student for a volunteer Research Assistant (RA) position. Our team conducts multi-method research examining behavioral and biological mechanisms linking emotion-related impulsivity to mental health problems. We aim to recruit an RA...

Keith Johnson - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project aims to document conversational speech of ordinary people of all ages and backgrounds who grew up in Oakland. Our main interest is in how people pronounce their words - is there an "Oakland accent" but the recordings are also social records from people spanning a wide range of age...

Amy Joy - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project researches current topics in nutrition and health for my undergraduate class ("Eating Green: The science behind the grassroots food movement"). My class is a small-group class that uses a discussion format to cover a range of controversial questions (eg. Are organic foods better?). Currently teaching this class...

Rosemary Joyce - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Archaeology of Honduras This project will contribute to completion of reports on archaeological field projects conducted in Honduras between 1980 and 2009...

Jerome Karabel - Professor, Sociology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Outlier Nation: The Roots and Consequences of American Exceptionalism The United States has always been exceptional – both for better and for worse. Its distinctive form of democratic capitalism has made the United States the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, the world's leading economy, and home to (by some...

Shreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

For many ordinary people, the term "Cambridge Analytica"--even if they are not sure exactly what the controversy is about--brings forth some association with the topics of election interference, psychological manipulation, illicit hacking, Russian disinformation, and Facebook. The truth is that it had very little to do with any...

Andrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project examines the neuroendocrine, immunological, and psychiatric pathways underlying the consequences of trauma exposure in adults living in South Africa. Data come from two separate studies: the first on intergenerational trauma from apartheid in a longitudinal birth cohort study in Soweto, South Africa and the second on long COVID...

Dorothy Kronick - Professor, Center for Effective Global Action

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The majority of people in extreme poverty live in conflict-affected or fragile countries, most of which experience primarily internal conflicts, rather than wars with another country. Latin America has experienced a number of recent civil conflicts, as well as notable drug trafficking efforts and crime waves that cause more...

HRC Lab - Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Thank you for your interest in the Investigations Lab. For the Spring 2025 semester, we are only accepting applications from students that completed LS125 in Fall 2024. Those students were already sent a supplemental application due January 6th. We are not accepting any other applicants this semester, but will accept...

Marika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Neuroscientists have studied the brain's response to threatening stimuli since the earliest days of brain imaging. Yet there is no single catalogue of threat perception studies and their findings. Meta-analysis involves using data from many studies to characterize the collective state of knowledge in a field. This project seeks...

Gabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project has two parts. Part 1 looks at how the news media shapes policy outcomes and whether disparities in coverage lead to policy inequity. Can we show convincing evidence that news coverage of pedestrian fatalities leads to a change in local transportation policy? Are certain communities more likely to...

David Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Most poor women face challenges with menstrual hygiene. The results are staying home during one's period (limiting work and school), fear of leaks, infections, and high cost of single-use products. We are running two trials in Tamil Nadu and in Karnataka on distribution of menstrual cups. It would be...

David Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

We are developing a curriculum based on stories, games and engaging activities ) to teach about health in poor nations (wash hands with soap, cover your cough, etc.). If you are selected for this research project, you have the OPTION to join the Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) program. YEDI is...

David Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Roughly 1.5 billion poor people receive healthcare from roughly 1.5 million community health workers (CHWs). CHWs are typically women with limited education and minimal training. ChatGPT, GPT4 and their peers should be able to provide high-quality support, especially if trained on the local clinical guidelines. If you are selected...

Kristin Luker - Professor, Law, Sociology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project is part of an forthcoming book on how contraception and abortion, common parts of American family life throughout much of American history, came to be regulated in the late 19th century, became liberalized a century later, and are now the focus of intense political controversy. That regulation has...

Lisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

About 10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia farming communities began to settle in large villages and produce their own food; forever changing the social and physical landscape of this region. However, the emergence of social complexity and the dramatic social and economic changes that led to the origins of agriculture...

Ulrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are looking for highly motivated apprentices interested in behavioral economics or behavioral finance research for the 2025 spring semester. You will find below the list of open projects. Expectations: - Undergraduates will be required to complete assignments weekly. They will also be required to fill out weekly reports detailing the...

Ulrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

One of the most exciting areas of research in economics is “Law and Economics/Finance." This research starts from a central question in economics: What are the causes of financial development and economic growth? Why do some countries flourish while others do not? The “Law and Finance” literature suggests that...

Aila Matanock - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This research project examines policing in places that have had civil conflict and related crime, as well as peace agreements and interventions, specifically. We are focusing on a review of community-oriented policing in these contexts as well as how the end of conflict changes policing...

Michaela Mattes - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

On September 20, 2001, right after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush addressed the nation and declared war against terror. In his speech, the President repeatedly used religious connotations. For instance, “Prayer has comforted us in sorrow, and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.” President showed...

Don Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     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 would 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...

Don Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     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...

Don Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     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...

Don Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     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 is an...

Karen Nakamura - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Open     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...

Denise Neary - Director of Judicial Education, Berkeley Judicial Institute

Status: Open     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...

Manisha Padi - Professor, Law

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project studies public programs that subsidize investment in early stage ventures. The goal is to compile data on these "public purpose" venture capital projects, and compare them to traditional forms of venture capital. An ideal research assistant will have both quantitative data analysis skills in Stata, R, and/or...

Zachary Pardos - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project seeks to fill technical new researcher positions in the AskOski and OATutor research and development teams. The AskOski project (https://askoski.berkeley.edu/about) is a research and development effort lead by Professor Pardos to transfer the latest in big data and machine learning research to the domain of course...

Zachary Pardos - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Adaptive tutoring systems are designed to provide students in K-12 and intro college courses a personalized homework experience. This means giving the right problem to a student at the right time based given a continuous assessment of their mastery of a skill. At Berkeley, the ALEKS system is used...

Rahul Parson - Professor , South and Southeast Asian Studies

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The initiation of a liberalized economy and rise of right-wing nationalist politics has increased the precarity of vulnerable communities, minorities, women, and those seen as outsiders or immigrants. This project uses historical, archival, ethnographic, and literary critical approaches to vernacular cultures in order to make visible the new political...

Bernadette Pérez - Professor, History

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Colorado was one of the largest producers of sugar during the twentieth century, and it relied on Asian, Latino, Eastern European, and Native American migrant workers. The Violence of American Sugar is a book-length study of the Colorado beet sugar industry that examines the environmental dimensions of civil rights...

Angie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This community-engaged multi-faceted project applies an emerging theoretical and conceptual framework (equitable aging), which centers justice and power in understanding and examining aging programs, services, and policies. This project involves qualitative data collection (e.g., focus groups, interviews, ethnographic documents, virtual ethnography), qualitative data analysis, and dissemination. For one...

Christine Philliou - Professor, History

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This is a collaborative research and Digital Humanities project I initiated in 2020 and our team includes scholars in Greece, Turkey, and several other countries. We are reading Ottoman Turkish and Greek sources about the population of Greek Orthodox in Istanbul and creating data sets, and then visualizations and interactive...

Alison Post - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

What are the main types of concerns that citizens bring to mayors and city councilors in Latin America? What sorts of incentives do public officials have to address these concerns? And how do these dynamics vary between cities of different sizes? In this project, we will investigate local-level politics...

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Overview: Public debates and policies are increasingly shifting to include nature and nature-related risks and mitigations in climate discourse. Chief among nature-related risks are issues centered on biodiversity. These frameshifts are evidenced by multilateral agreements such as the Global Biodiversity Framework and a suite of regulations coming out...

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Forest restoration is an increasingly relevant topic across the globe, hailed as a key component to solutions for climate change, biodiversity crises, and sustainable development. Despite a growing awareness of the importance of forests and the need for ecosystem restoration, crucial information on natural forest regeneration processes is often lacking...

Laurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: Off Campus

As the nation ages it will also become more ethnoracially diverse. Primarily, the share of older Hispanics is projected to double, from 16 percent to 28 percent in the next 30 years. These research projects investigates how older Latine adults navigate social services in Oakland, Richmond, and San Francisco. The...

Benjamin Schoefer - Professor, Economics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

We will conduct research in macroeconomics and labor economics. The student may work on early-stage and advanced research projects. For an overview of potential topics, please see my website: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/ Please do not reach out by email before you have been selected. I cannot respond to email...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, grants, and more. It also provides technical...

Valerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...

Kim Shelton - Professor, Classics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...

Kim Shelton - Professor, Classics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...