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Richard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory addresses various aspects of human performance and cognition, and how these abilities are impacted by degenerative neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease or cerebellar degeneration. We are looking for an apprentice who could help with running and programming online experiments...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this project is to test the efficacy of a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) device that has been developed at Berkeley. NIBS methods have been around for about 40 years and involve applying weak electrical or magnetic fields to the scalp (non-invasive) in order to...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyGanesh Iyer - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The rails for the ongoing digital payments revolution in emerging markets are dependent on Point of Sale (POS) acceptance terminals at small merchants in developing countries. Those merchants play a crucial role in providing access to financial services to underserved regions. However, Indian payment firms face high merchant churn rates...
Social SciencesGanesh Iyer - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A knowledge-based news recommendation system is significant because it can help to mitigate the negative effects of fake news, echo chambers, and opinion polarization. By presenting a diverse range of viewpoints and sources, a knowledge-based system can help to expose users to a greater range of ideas and...
Social SciencesGanesh Iyer - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
With the widespread consumption of online digital content, growing competition among media platforms for people’s attention leads to the demand for innovation in content curation. To choose which content to popularize, it is common practice in big social media firms (e.g., Facebook, Google, Netflix) to create multiple versions of content...
Social SciencesDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We explore how motivated and cognitive biases lead people to support inequality, even when it's not in their best interest to do so...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
For this lab study, we are examining moral decision-making within group contexts. Specifically, we are exploring how moral decisions are discussed and made in groups...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Some topics under investigation: - Do perceptions of hiring criterion vary based on preference to maintain the status quo? - Exploring the pitfalls of the hiring process and attempts to increase diversity - Why do supervisors assign more diversity related tasks to racial minority and woman employees? What psychological cost does this have...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBabak Javid - Professor, Medicine/Experimentsl Medicine
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are evaluating novel subunit vaccine candidates for tuberculosis (TB) using mouse models. We will assess antigens with a variety of adjuvant formulations in eliciting antibody and T-cell mediated immunity. Please note: selection of students will be taken via the formal submission process...
Biological & Health SciencesBabak Javid - Professor, Medicine/Experimentsl Medicine
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Almost everything known about bacterial protein synthesis is from the study of "canonical" mRNAs in E. coli and other model organisms. However, many bacteria translate non-canonical mRNAs. A quarter of mRNAs in mycobacteria lack 5' UTRs -- but the "rules" governing leaderless translation are not fully understood. This project will...
Biological & Health SciencesAmin Jazaeri - Director of Instructional Support, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will design experiments that can be controlled remotely through the internet...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesSheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
We aim to test whether time-restricted eating (in which a person eats during the 10 most active hours of their day) or Mediterranean diet can help reduce symptoms and improve quality of life for people with bipolar disorder...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
The goal of this study is to consider cognitive influences on misophonia...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 to begin in the Spring 2022 semester. Our team conducts multi-method research examining behavioral and biological mechanisms linking emotion-related impulsivity to mental health...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKeith Johnson - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Linguistic description of "California English" is based on observations of relatively few people, often college students, speaking in rather unnatural contexts. This project aims to document speech styles of ordinary people engaged in conversation. The project will focus on long-term residents of Oakland...
Social SciencesDonna Jones - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
I am conducting research on the mid-century African American Author Richard Wright and his years in Paris, along with his intellectual exchange with his fellow African American expatriates during the 1950s and early 1960s. My focus examines the political tensions of the Cold War...
Arts & HumanitiesAmy Joy - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRosemary Joyce - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social SciencesYehuda Kalay - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The performance of healthcare facilities is an important issue due to the high value of the services they provide on one hand, and the high cost of constructing and operating them on the other. Various disciplines have offered measures to assess such performance, focusing on different indicators. The healthcare industry...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
California has committed to fully eliminate carbon pollution from electricity by the year 2045, by passing landmark state bill SB100. Alongside, several bills have been passed to move towards deep emissions reduction in all sectors, including buildings and transport. Decarbonizing existing buildings (around 13 million residential homes along with large...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The technological basis for launching and operating orbiting solar generating plants is rapidly improving due to decreases in the cost of rocket launches ($/kg of payload), and improvements in durable thin-film solar and microwave beaming technology. The project is to build data-sets to inform a series of projections...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The purpose of this project is to collect, analyze and visualize data on energy, transportation, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, GHG drivers, household carbon footprints, climate action planning, and equity into a single, data-driven climate action portal for all California cities and communities...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project focuses on assessment of energy system resources, GHG balances and design of regional opportunities for expansion of distributed generation and micro grids in urban-agriculture interface zones across regions in California and regions with similar geo-physical resources and socio-economic features. The project will use Geographic Information...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesSona Kang - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
DNA methylation is a reversible epigenetic mark involving the covalent transfer of a methyl group to the C-5 position of a cytosine residue and is mediated by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs). DNMT1 maintains DNA methylation patterns during DNA replication, while DNMT3A and DNMT3B are involved in establishing de novo patterns...
Biological & Health SciencesJerome Karabel - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we plan to use two recently developed imaging tools to investigate the structure and composition of bone. State-of-the-art micro computed...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we will be performing advanced image processing and analysis on high resolution computed tomography (CT) images of the skeleton. These images are being...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesWaqas Khalid - Associate Scientist, BNC
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Be the first to utilize/use cutting edge nanotechnology developed by Dr. Waqas Khalid, Berkeley Scientist and collaborators to solve problems in healthcare, energy and semiconductor industries. Join Dr. Khalid’s URAP program and learn about nanostructure based devices that have applications in monitoring human health, energy harvesting, energy storage, environmental...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCeleste Kidd - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Kidd Lab studies learning and belief formation using a combination of computational and behavioral methods. In our behavioral experiments, we measure how humans look, explore, play, and learn starting in infancy and continuing throughout childhood. We use eye-trackers to measure visual fixations, touchscreens to study exploration in kid...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyAndrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMichael Kiparsky - Associate Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
California faces major challenges with groundwater governance. Groundwater is a crucial source of water for Californians, but Californians are pumping more groundwater than is naturally replenished. That leads to growing aquifer depletion, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley, with a variety of negative human health, environmental, and economic consequences. Some...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesMichael Kiparsky - Associate Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). This law tasks local government agencies with developing and implementing groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) to achieve sustainable groundwater management within their groundwater basins. Among other things, GSPs explain what management actions local agencies will take to achieve sustainability (for example...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesMimi Koehl - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We are studying the biomechanics and biofluiddynamics of how organisms interact with their physical environments. Our interdisciplinary work is at the interface between biology and engineering, so students majoring in biology, engineering, physics, or math have all participated in research in our lab. There are a variety of projects that...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Superconducting sensors, such as Transition-edge sensors (TESs) coupled with superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), are used in many applications, from quantum computing to astrophysics to particle physics. For rare-events search experiments, such as neutrinoless double beta decay, a multiplexed readout is necessary for low-temperature experiments which operate...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The world's natural history museums are responsible for documenting over 1.8 billion species known as a result of 300 years of biological exploration of the planet. The information contained in museums include observational and specimen-based data, text, images, sound and video and form the foundation of what we know...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) is a vibrant research and informatics center for the campus and the natural history communities around the world. If you enjoy sharing natural history news and research as well as connecting people in our community and the public, this is the apprenticeship for you...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) is a vibrant research and informatics center for the campus and the natural history communities around the world. The world's natural history museums are responsible for documenting over 1.8 billion species known as a result of 300 years of biological exploration of the planet...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyBritt Koskella - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Microbiomes change over time, often with important functional consequences for their hosts. But the ecological drivers of microbiome succession are poorly understood. We are studying the role that microbial interactions play in this process by examining the constituents of the digestive microbiome of the insectivorous California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica...
Biological & Health SciencesBritt Koskella - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Phage, viruses that infect and kill bacteria, are ubiquitous, yet their impacts on beneficial bacteria that colonize plants are not well understood. Phage are abundant in the soil and therefore soil-dwelling bacteria must hone defenses against phage in order to survive. Likewise, phage must hone their capacity to infect...
Biological & Health SciencesBritt Koskella - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are building a new system (fire blight of pear trees) to better understand how bacteriophage viruses might impact the ability of a bacterial pathogen (Erwinia amylovora) to colonize and infect pear trees. We are tracking bacteria-phage interactions through time by isolating individual phages from each of 25 diseased...
Biological & Health SciencesBritt Koskella - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In natural systems, microorganisms interact with myriad other microbial populations which influence their evolution and ecology. When associated with a eukaryotic host, these complex microbial communities (known as microbiomes) also interact with and impact their host’s ecology and evolution, nutrient acquisition, and pathogen susceptibility. Despite the microbiome's...
Biological & Health SciencesKsenia Krasileva - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Filamentous fungi are hosts to pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, parasitic fungi, and grazing nematodes. Besides RNAi to protect fungal genomes from mycoviruses, a fungal inducible defense upon recognition of bacteria has yet to be fully described. Genes encoding nucleotide-binding domain Leucine-rich repeat-like (NLR-like) proteins are...
Biological & Health SciencesKsenia Krasileva - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Plants have powerful defense mechanisms, which rely on an arsenal of plant immune receptors. Major classes of plant immune receptors include Receptor like kinases (RLKs), receptor like proteins (RLPs), and Nucleotide Binding Leucine Rich Repeat (NLR) proteins. On the population level, plant immune receptors provide plants with enough diversity to...
Biological & Health SciencesKsenia Krasileva - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Plant diseases pose a significant threat to global agricultural crop production. Developing genetically modified plants with boosted disease resistance offers an economical and environmental solution. Plant immune receptors are naturally evolved resistance determinants that recognize target pathogen molecules to initiate defense responses. They have been widely used as transgenes. However...
Biological & Health SciencesKsenia Krasileva - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Stripe rust along with stem and leaf rust are the major threat to wheat production worldwide. It is estimated that wheat rust pathogens cause a global annual loss of approximately 15 million tons, with a value of US$ 2.9 billion. Plant breeders are constantly putting in the effort to develop...
Biological & Health SciencesLaura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines behavior, beliefs, and attitudes relevant to gender differences in career attainment. Using a variety of methods, including experimental studies, correlational studies, and archival analyses, this project seeks to understand organizational barriers limiting gender equality in compensation and advancement and to identify interventions aimed at mitigating them. Some...
Social SciencesLaura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines how power differently impacts men and women's experiences of the workplace. Power leads people to experience a number of psychological changes, however these changes may manifest differently in men and women. To investigate this question, we will run correlational studies, social science experiments, and interviews...
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