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William Boos - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs
This project will use satellite data and a new network of hundreds of on-the-ground instrument stations to generate a risk dataset for farmers in equatorial Africa. Our research group studies the fluid dynamics of Earth's tropical atmosphere, focusing on the atmospheric waves and vortices that produce extreme rainfall...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesFrancesco Borrelli - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In this project, we aim to improve the energy performance of connected automated vehicles in real-world scenarios. The energy savings can be obtained by harnessing technologies such as (i) remote computations, (ii) forecasts, (iii) historical data, (iv) automation, and (v) coordination with other vehicles and infrastructure. We have the...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesFrancesco Borrelli - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves work on the perception, prediction, and control stacks of the 1/10th scale Berkeley Autonomous Race Car (BARC) platform. The goal is to perform multi-agent racing on an indoor track with onboard sensing and computation. Students can expect to learn about advanced modeling, planning, and control techniques...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are working on a project to study the adaptation and evolutionary history of hummingbirds and sunbirds. Hummingbirds and sunbirds are two groups of birds that have independently adopted nectar as a major component of their diet and have evolved to be morphologically similar. Our project aims to explore whether...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My lab is involved with a large collaborative project to study disease transmission within and among species of wild birds. As part of this project, swabs of a variety of bird species are being collected to study their microbial communities (i.e. their microbiome). Lab studies suggest that microbial diversity can...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Students can assist with several ongoing research projects that investigate geographic variation and species limits in birds and integrate these data with quantification of prevalence of disease vectors such as bird malaria and trypanosome infections...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Nest structures are widespread across animals including insects, fish, amphibians, and most conspicuously, birds. Despite their ubiquity, nests remain one of the most understudied components of avian life history. Some of the most remarkable examples of elaborate nest design are within the passerine weaverbirds (family Ploceidae). Weaverbirds are an Old...
Biological & Health SciencesTim Bowles - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Despite extensive efforts to measure on-farm soil conditions, the concept of soil health continues to be a murky concept across soil science, agriculture, and policy disciplines. However, soil health is critical to productive agriculture and long-term, whole-farm resilience. At present, most measurements of soil health on organic...
Environmental IssuesTim Bowles - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Are you longing to engage deeper in food sovereignty and agroecology? Do you long to connect sustainable farming practices to on-the-ground research centered around agroecology, food access, and social movements? This year-long internship with the Gill Tract Community Farm will offer training in agroecological farming methods, engagement...
Environmental IssuesAnna 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...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Rapid climate change has amplified drought conditions in deserts, where many species already subsist at their physiological limits. However, management interventions, such as artificial water catchments may allow some wildlife to persist despite drought. This project examines the influence of artificial water catchments on large mammals, bats, birds, and reptiles...
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 IssuesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
RNA-seq has been widely used in biological and medical research because of its capability to quantify transcriptome changes. Researchers usually use their impressions and experience to choose whether to analyze transcriptome changes in gene expression or alternative splicing levels. A more systematic way to determine whether to focus on...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Genome sequencing identifies a vast number of genetic variants. Predicting these variants’ molecular and clinical effects is one of the preeminent challenges in genetics. Accurate prediction of the impact of genetic variants improves our understanding of how genetic information yields molecular and cellular functions and is an essential step toward...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Proteins often fold into compact structural units, called domains. Protein domains are basic units of protein function and evolution. Delineating domain boundaries is a prerequisite for further analyses of protein structures. However, this process is largely a manual process and the accuracy of these computer programs is still not satisfactory...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The field of genome interpretation is essential for our understanding of human biology and the advancement of personalized medicine. However, the rapid accumulation of genomic data far exceeds our capacity for reliable interpretation. Consequently, the majority of variation discovered by next generation sequencing technologies is of unknown significance. These variants...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharles Briggs - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
That's what you call solidarity. Everybody pitching in, everybody doing their part. We each one, teach one, each one, reach one!” - Yolanda Chacon- Serna, labor organizer and health advocate “Health is politics by other means” Alondra Nelson, author of Body and Soul: The Black Panters and the Fight Against Medical...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators argue that Congress is broken because both parties' politicians take increasingly extreme positions on issues, failing to listen to voters. However, these claims are based on assuming that politicians of both parties don't adjust which proposals they make as voters' demands and the world change. In other...
George A. Brooks - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Projects 1 (Cell and Molecular Regulation of Metabolism) and 2 (Whole body Metabolic Regulation) are related. The student will be working on a large interdisciplinary research project investigating the effects of aging, gender and physical fitness on the control the balance of energy derived from different fuel sources within the...
Biological & Health SciencesGeorge A. Brooks - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Projects 1 (Cell and Molecular Regulation of Metabolism) and 2 (Whole body Metabolic Regulation) are related. The student will be working on a large interdisciplinary research project investigating the effects of aging, gender and physical fitness on the control the balance of energy derived from different fuel sources within the...
Biological & Health SciencesGeorge A. Brooks - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We are in the process of identifying the physiological signals responsible for lactate transporter expression. For this purpose when have developed a muscle cell culture system to study the influences of various putative factors in lactate transporter gene and protein expression. This project can cell culture, Western bottling (for protein...
Biological & Health SciencesGeorge A. Brooks - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The applicant will work with GSI/GSR Austin Peck on the discovery of metabolic signaling following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to rats and mice. Responsibilities will run the full gambit from assisting in animal handling (including care and feeding), to data collection and analysis. Injured and uninjured control animals will...
Biological & Health SciencesClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This URAP team focuses on the Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Policy Index (SSPI) that pulls together the data for over 50 policies that structure how markets operate, creates government programs (such as health care, education, housing) and protects human rights, and supports healthy ecosystems and protects the environment. This year the...
Social SciencesClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on California legislation to mandate that the large public pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuel assets [stocks and bonds]. The students will work on adding data and research studies to what has already been collected and used in making rigorous arguments for divestment...
Social SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will implement and disseminate the FUTUREPAIN validated questionnaire as a screening device to determine who will benefit from a series of online mind-body interventions (affective self-awareness, mindfulness, and neurobiological education) to treat chronic pain for five chronic pain conditions. This involves developing and testing the online...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Large racial/ethnic disparities exist in medical care. Attenuation or removal of these disparities requires a rigorous understanding of the relevant underlying mechanisms. One such mechanism is high-quality physician-patient relationships. High-quality physician-patient relationships are associated with improved health outcomes and lower costs. However, such relationships appear...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will conduct the first systematic review and meta-analysis to identify the most effective and cost-effective intervention components for universal and targeted (indicated and selected) suicide prevention among college students in a global context. Special attention will be placed on disparities in suicide prevention across sociodemographic subgroups...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will use simulation methods to determine the cost-effectiveness of mind-body interventions using data from randomized controlled trials, national survey data, and other resources. The goal is to publish a peer-reviewed article to help establish the value of these interventions in healthcare. This has not been...
Biological & Health SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project, undergraduate student researchers will focus on one or two of the following aspects of a broader digital humanities project: 1) archival analysis of historical records related to 'environmental burdens' in an environmental justice community. Students will work to chart a history of the country's largest refinery and...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will assist in the creation of a digital humanities project on Black geographies and environmental justice. Over the past four years, I have collaborated with community organizations and community members to collect oral histories focused on Black history, environmental relationships, and connections to place in Port Arthur, Texas, a...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesRyan Brutger - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
My research studies international negotiations, international organizations, and domestic public support for international cooperation and economic policies. This includes a range of substantive issues, such as the negotiations surrounding the Iran-nuclear deal, the World Trade Organization, climate-change talks, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and antitrust policy. My research...
Social SciencesRoland Burgmann - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Earthquakes are influenced by the properties of faults. Our ability to characterize fault zones and determine how they impact earthquakes is limited. The goal of this project is to perform a multiscale analysis of the rock surrounding faults and explore how it may impact how faults slip and generate earthquakes...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will evaluate the relationship between the responsiveness of politicians to individual requests for assistance and their future political performance. Specifically, we will merge previously collected experimental data on the response, or lack thereof, of politicians in India to requests for help accessing government services, with subsequent data on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the character of global clothing production and (re)use. At this stage of the project we will be collecting descriptive qualitative and quantitative data on (1) the political economy of clothing production and distribution, with an emphasis on fast fashion; (2) patterns of secondhand clothing trade, (3...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to understand the dynamics of the textiles industry in India, with special attention to the political economy of production. In this stage of the research, we will be focused on collecting background materials about the industry, including statistics on both small-and large-scale production, documentation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesRoy Caldwell - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in my laboratory is focused on stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimp as they are commonly called. Stomatopods are marine predators that have evolved powerful raptorial appendages used in prey capture and processing as well as in inter- and intraspecific fighting. Current research in my laboratory is examining several aspects...
Biological & Health SciencesRoy Caldwell - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In my lab we also study octopus behavior. Very few octopus species have been successfully hatched and reared in the laboratory. Species with direct development might be useful for studying the early development of behavior. Since juvenile octopus must be reared individually, this is a labor intensive and time consuming...
Biological & Health SciencesIain Carmichael - Professor, Statistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
UC Berkeley and UCSF are beginning a new collaboration on several large scale machine learning projects for medical imaging in Pathology. The ultimate aim of this collaboration is to develop clinically impactful deep learning algorithms for disease diagnosis/prognosis using massive (e.g. 100,000x100,000 pixel) whole slide images (https://www.pixelscientia.com/article...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Mathematical and Physical SciencesIain Carmichael - Professor, Statistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
There is an expanding effort to improve patient care and accelerate biomedical research through the development of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that analyze high-resolution images of cancerous tissue biopsies. As in all AI applications, data is the critical ingredient; our ability to develop clinically deployable algorithms is dependent on...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Mathematical and Physical SciencesAndy Chang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
The carotid body is a mammalian chemoreceptor that senses changes in blood oxygen to regulate breathing. However, carotid body becomes hyperactive in chronic diseases like hypertension, sleep apnea, chronic heart failure, and metabolic syndrome, and ablation of carotid body activity improves symptoms like hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, and insulin resistance. We...
Biological & Health SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is a welfare-to-work (WTW) program that provides cash aid and services to needy families with children in California. In order to receive cash aid, adult enrollees are required to participate in work-related activities. Non-compliance will cause a...
Social SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project aims to investigate the features of global welfare regimes with a focus on social protection systems. Dr. Yu-Ling Chang is collaborating with Dr. Julia Shu-Huah Wang at the National Taiwan University and social policy scholars from 20+ countries on this project. We use the model family...
Social SciencesChristopher Chaston - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
In this project we seek to advance understanding of how turbulent electromagnetic field topologies may scatter ions in the plasmas close to Sun. This process may drive heating and energization of the ion distributions through this region of space and forces plasma outward from the Sun in the Solar Wind...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristopher Chaston - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Recent discoveries in near-Earth space have demonstrated a correlation between rapid changes in relativistic electron populations and the onset of intervals of electromagnetic turbulence during geomagnetic storms. Understanding the dynamics of these energetic particles remains an enigma despite decades of observations and theoretical modeling. Multiple processes have been identified...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristopher Chaston - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Understanding turbulence in fluids and plasmas is one of the great challenges of physics. In Earth's near-space environment, known as the magnetosphere, turbulent fluctuations in electromagnetic fields and flows transport vast quantities of energy inward toward Earth through a channel of stretched magnetic field known as the magnetotail. This...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristopher Chaston - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The spectacular display of light seen at high latitudes and known as the aurora is a consequence of the conversion of electromagnetic energy to particle kinetic energy. The motions in these luminous features are a marker for how the energy conversion operates. This project seeks to trace the motion of...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJennifer Chatman - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Professor Jennifer Chatman’s lab works on a variety of questions at the intersection of organizational behavior, social and personality psychology, and firm strategy, and uses a mixture of behavioral lab experiments and field and archival research to answer these questions. Some current topics under investigation include: - What implications do new...
Social Sciences