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Abby Dernburg - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Human reproduction is highly asymmetric given that women have much more limited reproductive health spans than men. Women experience a sharp age-dependent decline in oocyte quality, which arises largely through errors in meiosis, the specialized cell division that reduces the genome by half. We study the fundamental mechanisms of...
Biological & Health SciencesAbby Dernburg - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Meiosis is a specialized cell division that produces gametes with half the genome content of somatic cells. During meiosis, the two copies of each chromosome inherited from the two parents must physically pair along their lengths through a process called synapsis, in which a protein complex called the synaptonemal complex...
Biological & Health SciencesJeroen Dewulf - Professor, German
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...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesLowell Dittmer - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project consists of the analysis of Beijing's grand strategiy under Xi Jinping, bearing in mind that this strategy has political, economic, anc cultural dimensions.HOw? By reading selected texts of Chinese leaders and intellectuals...
Social SciencesLowell Dittmer - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Sino-American relations have polarized in the past decade or so, with a major impact on American strategic orientation. The focus of this project is the Indo-Pacific strategy currently being worked out to defend American political and economic interests. We are interested in the origins, rationale, and feasibility of...
Social SciencesRobert Dudley - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Flying insects are the most diverse and abundant form of animal life in the terrestrial biosphere. However, the origins of insect flight remain obscure given the absence of a transitional fossil record. This project will involve construction of a small robot that mimics the likely morphology of early insects, and...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Dunham - Project Manager, Oral History Center of UC Berkeley
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Oral History Center of UC Berkeley has conducted over 4000 oral histories on a vast array of subjects. We are currently focused on making our collections on Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives, Rosie the Riveter / WWII Home Front, and Women in Politics available online with complete audio synched to transcripts...
Social SciencesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and reinforce inequality. Our social, cultural, and developmental psychology lab is hiring research assistants to help with several projects this semester. Across projects, we investigate prejudice, attitudes, stereotyping, discrimination...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesRobert Edelstein - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP participants are expected to work between 9 and 12 hours per week (pursuant to the mutually agreed upon contract between the student and Professor Edelstein). Usually, the URAP team will meet with Professor Edelstein on an as needed basis to discuss assignments, provide findings as well as interact about...
Social SciencesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded in social, cognitive processes? The goal of this project is to investigate how children’s tendencies for reasoning and cooperation inform one another. We aim to understand how the interplay of these processes develops, from early childhood into middle childhood. The subset...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiane Erwin - Senior Museum Scientist, Museum of Paleontology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is part of a NSF grant to digitize and photograph fossil ferns in the Museum of Paleontology as part of the Advancing the Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) Thematic Collections program. The specimen record data and images generated from the project will be uploaded to the UCMP online...
Biological & Health SciencesDiane Erwin - Senior Museum Scientist, Museum of Paleontology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The UCMP amber collection from Chiapas, Mexico is composed mostly of fossil insects. The project is funded in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to conserve this collection by embedding the amber pieces in epoxy resin and providing specimen images for presentation on the web for...
Biological & Health SciencesEllen Evers - Professor, Marketing
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab's research combines cognitive/social psychology, behavioral economics, and judgment and decision making research. Most of our research involves carrying out online or in-person experiments designed to test a hypothesis about human decision-making. Accepted students will work on a variety of projects within this area. Examples of...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will involve reading judicial opinions from U.S. Court of Appeals focusing on issues affecting access to the civil justice system, such as class certification, damages, standing, and attorney’s fees...
Social SciencesSean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs
When Congress passes a law to regulate some facet of social or economic life in the U.S., it must decide whether the law will be enforce through litigation and courts or though bureaucracy, or some combination of the two in mixed approach. This project investigates Congress’ choice between courts and...
Social SciencesSean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will focus on the extent of New York Times and Wall Street Journal coverage of Supreme Court opinions bearing upon a wide range of issue areas. Students will read summaries of court opinions, conduct searches of newspaper databases, read articles on the opinions, and record information about the...
Social SciencesSean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The presidents of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks are among the most powerful policymakers in the American political economy, but very little is known about who selects these individuals and how they are selected. This project explores the relationship between the representation of local elites on the Reserve Bank boards...
Social SciencesShanna Farrell - Academic Specialist, Oral History Center of UC Berkeley
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Oral History Center (OHC) of The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has conducted thousands of oral history interviews since its establishment in 1953, including deeply-researched, multiple-session interviews with individuals around the Bay Area and across the nation. Archival copies of the audio/video and transcripts are placed...
Social SciencesCharles B. Faulhaber - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Conversion of the PhiloBiblon relational database of ca. 420,000 records to the netgraph architecture of FactGrid: a database for historians. The software used is Wikibase, the same software used for Wikipedia. PhiloBiblon is a database of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan primary sources (manuscripts and early printed books) of medieval...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance. In this project, we will leverage techniques from big data and machine learning to structure and analyze large textual data, which can help...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research on economics of AI. The research uses unique measure of firm-level investments in AI and other emerging technologies, derived from individual employees’ resumes. The research answers key questions such as: Do new technologies such as AI benefit firms? What happens to the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesDan Feldman - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to investigate the effects of body movements and arousal state on behavioral performance accuracy, and on neural activity in specific cell classes during goal-directed behavior in mice...
Biological & Health SciencesDan Feldman - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project uses a novel approach to investigate the effects of selective attention on behavioral performance accuracy and neural activity in specific cell classes during goal-directed behavior in mice...
Biological & Health SciencesDan Feldman - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This neuroscience project will use immunohistochemistry to test for abnormalities in inhibitory interneurons in cerebral cortex in mouse models of autism. Interneuron hypofunction is common in mouse models of autism, but how this impairment in inhibition arises is unclear. We focus on two interneuron types, parvalbumin-positive interneurons (PV cells...
Biological & Health SciencesLia 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...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In Kenya, over 70% of the population is at risk of malaria, with the areas around Lake Victoria and on the coast presenting the highest risk, and children under age 5 and pregnant women being most vulnerable to infection. Over half of malaria patients access treatment via pharmacies, which are...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia 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...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAaron 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...
Biological & Health SciencesAaron 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...
Biological & Health SciencesAaron 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...
Biological & Health SciencesAaron 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSeth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSeth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSeth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The rise of the Isthmus of Panama ~3 million years ago was arguably the most important biotic and oceanographic event of the past 60 million years. By connecting North and South America, the rise of the Isthmus caused the Great American interchange of terrestrial plant and animal species. In the...
Biological & Health SciencesSeth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Mass extinctions in the fossil record provide us with case studies of biodiversity crises and global change that extend beyond human timescales. Approximately 445 million years ago, about 80% of marine animal species on Earth became extinct during a period of global climate change; however, the primary drivers and the...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Flanagan - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Flanagan - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Flanagan - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSuzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSuzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSuzanne 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...
Biological & Health SciencesSuzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Contact lens wearers suffer a multitude of complications due to extended contact lens wear, including para-inflammation and bacterial infection. Contact lens wear alters the resident immune cells in the cornea specifically neutrophils after 6 days of continuous contact lens wear and this phenomenon has been observed in mice cornea...
Biological & Health SciencesMeredith 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...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesMeredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The clean energy transition will require a massive build-out of clean energy infrastructure. Because wind, solar, and associated transmission infrastructure are very land-intensive, the projected scale of infrastructure expansion (a doubling or tripling of capacity) could significantly impact areas with high conservation value. Meanwhile, an estimated 1 million...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesGordon 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 UC Hopland and at avocado orchards in southern California. Collaborating with farmers at these orchards, we have been...
Environmental IssuesEmma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated 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...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMassimiliano Fratoni - Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Pebble bed reactors (PBRs) use small spherical fuel elements that are piled in a cylindric core to achieve critical mass and energy production. The pebbles are circulated in and out of the core until the inner fuel is exhausted and at that point they are replaced with new pebbles. Such...
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