URAP

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...

Dennis Feehan - Professor, Demography

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

Big historical datasets have set off an exciting wave of discoveries throughout the social sciences. These datasets have hundreds of millions of rows with rich information about historical populations, such as the complete set of responses to the 1940 US census and the record of all Social Security enrollments. They...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

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

Around one third of young children in Latin America co-reside with a grandparent. Unlike other regions, intergenerational cohabitation has remained common even with increasing economic prosperity. Grandparents may provide additional care for children with time or financial resources, yet they may also be a burden on parents if the...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

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

Over 250 million children under five years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been estimated to be at risk of poor development, accounting for 43% of young children living in those countries (Lu et al., 2016). There are many reasons that children are at risk for poor development...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

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

Numerous studies have shown that early childhood development (ECD) interventions, including psychosocial stimulation, are effective in promoting disadvantaged children’s short-term cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, as well as their long-term educational attainment, earnings, and health. One proposed strategy for “scaling up” these interventions to achieve greater coverage in LMICs...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

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

Background: Every seven minutes a woman is a victim of domestic violence in Brazil. Research on intimate partner violence shows that victimization is not an isolated incident. Because of the repetition of abuse, it’s possible that some women seek assistance from multiple sectors over the course of their victimization. Other...

Alessandra Ferrari - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

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

Cholesterol is a vital component of cellular membranes, with most residing in the plasma membrane while its synthesis occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Proper transport of cholesterol to the ER is essential for maintaining lipid, supporting esterification for lipoproteins, and enabling bile acid and steroid hormone production. The goal...

Alessandra Ferrari - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

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

The complex genetic and dietary cues contribute to the development of obesity, but how these are integrated on a molecular level is incompletely understood. This project explores the function of LPCAT3, an enzyme involved in phospholipid remodeling and its influence on the types of fatty acids that are incorporated into...

Alessandra Ferrari - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

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

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common malignancies of the digestive system and a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality. Despite the availability of current therapies, patient outcomes remain poor and mortality rates high, underscoring the urgent need for more effective treatment strategies. Our research interests focus...

Trevor Fidler - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

We’re interested in identifying pathways which regulate macrophage function in atherosclerosis. In inflammatory sites like atheromas, macrophages accumulate, phagocytise necrotic cells, and uptake lipids leading to foam cell formation. Recent single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed that within these tissue macrophages can adopt multiple transcriptional states which can promote or...

Trevor Fidler - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

We’re interested in understanding why clonal hematopoiesis is associated with cardiovascular disease. Clonal hematopoiesis is a high prevalent disease in the elderly which occurs when hematopoietic stem cells acquire cancer mutations that promote cell survival. People with clonal hematopoiesis have a 40% increase in mortality. However, rather surprisingly this increase...

Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Many painful pathologies of the spine involve the first sacral (S1) vertebra. For example, damage to the endplates of S1 (in particular, the region near the lumbar intervertebral disc) can cause painful lesions in the vertebral bone marrow—such lesions are relatively common in patients with chronic low back pain...

Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology enable novel, quantitative, and non-invasive estimation of the biochemical composition of musculoskeletal tissues. The new ability to non-invasively assay tissue composition using MRI has major implications for understanding spinal pathologies related to low back pain, such as intervertebral disc degeneration. Recent...

Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Biotransport Laboratory at UCSF conducts research related to structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of nutrient transport in bone and cartilage and harnessing nutrient transport for tissue repair and regeneration. The lab combines engineering and biology approaches for (1...

Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Biotransport Laboratory at UCSF conducts research related to structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of nutrient transport in bone and cartilage and harnessing nutrient transport for tissue repair and regeneration. The lab combines engineering and biology approaches for (1...

Desiree Fields, Geography

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

This project examines the intersection of technology, capital, and urbanization. In the period between the Great Recession and the coronavirus pandemic, the ideology of technology as an engine for economic growth and rational instrument for addressing urban problems profoundly influenced approaches to urban governance. Tech leaders also became social and...

Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

High in the rainforest canopy, epiphytic plants face the challenge of obtaining the nutrients they need without having contact with the soil. This project investigates nutrient acquisition challenges and strategies between epiphytic plants found in two different forest types in the Peruvian Amazon: relatively nutrient-rich forests with a clay...

Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) is a fast, cost-effective technology that measures the irradiation of organic molecules inside of a leaf. The spectrometer makes chemical bonds vibrate and generate a wave response that corresponds to the leaf’s internal chemical composition (both qualitative and quantitative). These signals have been shown...

Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

There are many missing taxa in the molecular phylogeny of Burseraceae. Some of these missing taxa are endemic to extremely remote geographic locations and far away from their closest putative relatives. We will extract DNA from dried leaves, and get samples ready for genomic sequencing...

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

For tens of millions of years large parts of California’s Central Valley were flooded by the ocean, creating an inland sea with a unique ecosystem including now-extinct species of clams, snails, sand dollars, corals, and other groups familiar from modern California beaches. Some of the species that lived in...

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Besides coral, marine reefs are made up of many other strange invertebrates, including the little-known “moss animal”, or bryozoan. These abundant, microscopic filter-feeders grow in colonies and build elaborate domes, lacework, and tree-like structures on the ocean floor, from the intertidal to the abyss, from the poles...

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Death assemblages’ are the actively accumulating shelly remains of organisms living at the bottom of the ocean. Because death assemblages accumulate over 100s to 1,000s of years, they are powerful tools to estimate past biodiversity. By comparing the ecological composition of living communities and death assemblages, we can assess recent...

John Flanagan - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

We are focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of protective lipid mediators that are essential for regulating and orchestrating routine and healthy immune responses and neuroprotection. Research in our lab uses in vitro and mouse models and bioinformatics to discover and define protective pathways and therapeutic targets in...

John Flanagan - Professor, Optometry

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

This project is centered around RNA sequencing and differential expression analysis in the context of glaucoma research. Specifically, the project aims to compare the gene expression profiles in cell culture and mice models to identify target genes implicated in glaucoma pathogenesis...

John Flanagan - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project employs immunohistochemistry techniques to delve into glial cell intricacies in glaucoma, followed by a detailed morphometric analysis using Imaris software. By combining these advanced methodologies, we aim to uncover subtle cellular variations associated with glaucoma pathogenesis...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

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

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common cause of contact lens-mediated microbial keratitis. Our lab uses in-vitro and in-vivo models to study the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the intracellular environment. Our recently published paper shows that intracellular bacteria persist in vacuoles, where they resist high-dose antibiotic...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

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

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is found to be the main causative agent of infection of human corneal and bronchial epithelial cells in bacterial keratitis and bacterial pneumonia respectively. To understand the etiology of chronic bacterial infection we look to determine the steps associated with intracellular biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We aim...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

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

Our lab has shown that P. aeruginosa can interact with and invade epithelial cells to establish an intracellular niche. We have recently found that intracellular bacteria occupy a subcellular compartment where they resist high dose antibiotic treatment. We are interested in understanding the factors associated with bacterial persistence and enhanced...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

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

The cornea is endowed with a high density of sensory nerve endings, including some polymodal by virtue of their Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) cation channels. Recently, the Fleiszig lab reported that corneal nerves can modulate the healthy cornea’s susceptibility to bacterial adhesion involving TRPV1 and TRPA1. Our new data show...

Meredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

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

As global temperatures rise, more and more people are being exposed to extreme heat. Coping with heat-related risks is particularly stressful for households with limited access to cooling technologies such as fans and air conditioners. We have been working in India where it's estimated that over 300...

Meredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

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

As the climate changes, households are increasingly exposed to both physical and financial risks. From a homeowner’s perspective, one of the clearest manifestations of this shift is the rising cost of property insurance in high-hazard areas. Insurance premium increases can convey important information about risk exposure and create incentives...

Gordon Frankie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Under the direction of Dr. Gordon Frankie, the UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab is monitoring diversity and abundance of California native bee species (1600 species state-wide) and their plant preferences at various locations throughout the state. In addition to studies in California, the Lab also investigates native bee diversity...

Emma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for

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

OSKI Tech is a program that introduces new technology to a range of students. It is designed to work as a portable technology instruction lab, with a focus on expanding participation in technology for students in media studies, new media, arts and social sciences. The core of OSKI Tech is...

Emma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for

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

Choosing your Major” is a Digital game competition aimed at undergraduate clubs and students with experience in making games, which will be launched this Fall. We are seeking two URAP students to help support the pedagogical and student-centered aspects of this project. The project is driven by a dedicated...

Mia Fuller - Professor, Institute of European Studies

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

This is the ideal URAP for students interested in a career in international diplomacy and/or foreign affairs. The Institute of European Studies seeks to enrich America's understanding of Europe -- its people, culture, languages, and politics -- through the generation and dissemination of distinguished scholarship. As the University's focal point for...

Bruce Fuller - Professor, Education

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

California is spending billions to widen children's access to affordable preschool. But the growth of the governor's favored program appears to be killing-off existing pre-K centers. This project delves into this unanticipated dynamic and how to prevent greater erosion of preschool supply. The affordability of families (or lack...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

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

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in teaching to personalize instruction, provide rapid formative feedback, support tutoring and practice through adaptive systems, and help instructors modify or extend existing course materials more efficiently than traditional lecture re-recording allows. AI tools can generate examples, quizzes, simulations, and alternative explanations tailored...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

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

Healthcare providers and insurers have consolidated in the past decade, leading to higher prices without a commensurate increase in quality. The study will extend the evidence base on the effects of healthcare consolidation, including understanding the impacts of hospital-to-hospital affiliations and the impacts of private equity firms acquiring...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

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

In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year. Hence, the potential for private investment to improve equity is significant, but would be the rate of...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

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

Part 1: The U.S. medical education system is not value-based, but instead relies on a one-size-fits-all approach with one of the longest education and training durations among developed countries. The length of time required to become a physician increases healthcare costs and limits access to care...

Lupe Gallegos-Diaz - Lecturer, Chicanx Latinx Academic Student Development Office

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

This project will be researching the various roles that Chicanxs and Latinxs alumni have played on the UC Berkeley campus. The research project will uplift, highlight and recognize 1) Chicanx Latinx alumni 2) their various intersectional identities focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, class and regionality 3)and generational...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

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

Project Description: Cooling centers typically utilize existing buildings to provide air-conditioned spaces, offering citizens immediate relief from high temperatures. Yet, as an emerging architectural typology, many of these centers lack design direction. They are conceived as emergency buildings often without essential amenities like food, natural daylighting, fresh air, or...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

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

Project Description: This project addresses the challenges posed by extreme weather conditions and growing energy instability by exploring experimental approaches to managing interior environments. The research proposes architectural strategies that allow for multiplicity of indoor climates and environmental management. To bridge academic exploration with real-world applications, the project culminates...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

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

Project Description: From Wood to Tree is an open air pavilion that explores environmental methodologies for returning lumber to the forest by examining the qualities of deadwood and degradation as a possibility for design. Much has been said about the making of wood, and yet one of its most prescient...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

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

Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth is a courtyard installation that stages mass and fiber as shared infrastructures for collective comfort in the Los Angeles summer. Building on the recent exhibition Collective Comfort: Airing on Possibilities, the project adapts non-mechanical cooling strategies from desert contexts into Craft Contemporary’s courtyard in Los...

Hernan Garcia - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

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

Ultimately, in the developing embryo, cells make decisions individually based on local context. Individual cells don’t have access to the morphogen concentrations across the entire embryo. They can only be affected by the concentration of proteins in neighboring nuclei, and their individual response to signaling is crucial for developmental decision...

Hernan Garcia - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

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

Gene expression is noisy. How much of this noise is due to variations in the environment of a gene locus, and how much is due to intrinsic limitations of the transcriptional machinery? This project aims to explore these questions by measuring the transcriptional dynamics of two identical, spatially coupled reporter...

Andrew Garrett - Professor, Linguistics

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

Participants will help transform archival field recordings into resources used for linguistic research and language revitalization...

Stephen Gaughran - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

The California coast is home to more than two dozen marine mammal species. Our state is also a highly productive agricultural center for the country, producing not just food but also agricultural runoff that flows into the ocean. This runoff carries nutrients and microbes from fertilizer and livestock waste, which...