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Laura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
In this project, we are interested in how people experience question and answer periods after talks about research. The research in this project is centered around how do people judge the questions other people ask and how does that make them in turn feel. For our next study, we would...
Social SciencesLayla Kwong - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In rural, low-resource settings globally, such as subsistence farming communities in Nepal, diarrheal diseases are common, driven by exposure to fecal pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and other harmful organisms found in human and animal waste) in their household. In subsistence farming households where households frequently own livestock and poultry, handling...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesLayla Kwong - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In large parts of Sub Saharan Africa, health facilities (e.g. hospitals and clinics) lack appropriate energy infrastructure. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where much of the continent's unelectrified are exposed to both climate and conflict pressures, the near-total absence of a central grid requires the health sector...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesLayla Kwong - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Dive into the world of health communication by contributing to our project focused on co-creating and evaluating the effectiveness of videos to enhance vaccine literacy and confidence. In the context of misinformation surrounding vaccines, particularly in Malay-speaking communities of Southeast Asia, we aim to develop culturally and linguistically...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesHRC Lab - Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Applicants should fill out this supplementary questionnaire as soon as possible: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4yCePzhTSSgJF5iC0QG5V_NP8qlAH0daveoagiEBwTY9Dgg/viewform?usp=sf_link*** You will not be considered unless you have completed both the URAP application and the supplemental questionnaire. The HRC Lab is a collaborative, innovative, student-driven space that...
Social SciencesEileen Lacey - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Broadly, we seek to understand how mechanisms in the brain contribute to the vast differences in social behavior evident among mammals, with particular interest in the evolution of such neural and behavioral diversity. Dispersal is an important behavioral and life history transition. Much variation in sociality arises due to differences...
Biological & Health SciencesMichel Laguerre - Professor, Globalization and Information Technology,Berkeley Center for (IGS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The focus of this study on digital surveillance provides social contexts to understand how it operates at the local, national, and global levels; how information technology is the instrument through which contemporary surveillance mostly materializes; and how the intersectionality of globalization, digitalization, and local city life generates a transversal ecosystem...
Social SciencesMichel Laguerre - Professor, Globalization and Information Technology,Berkeley Center for (IGS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Digital Platforms of the Transversal City/San Francisco Bay Area The Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology has been recently engaged in the decoding and unbundling of transversal aspects of the American city. The project attempts to re-problematize the operational deployment, structure, infrastructure, and agency of the transversal...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
People are exposed to stories of all kinds in their daily lives, including appealing but false stories such as conspiracy theories. One way to understand the causal influence of stories on beliefs and behaviors is to use them as experimental treatments. The outcomes of these experiments can vary widely depending...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Threat perception has always played a major role in foreign and domestic policy-making. From Covid to climate change to terrorism, policy-makers have made decisions about which potential threats to address and which to ignore. This project investigates how policy-makers in the U.S. and in other countries determine...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Neuroscientists have studied the brain's response to threatening stimuli since the earliest days of brain imaging. Yet there is no single catalogue of threat perception studies and their findings. Meta-analysis involves using data from many studies to characterize the collective state of knowledge in a field. This project seeks...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Social scientists often assign categorical values to text data in order to structure it (e.g., categorizing statements made by Congress members as pro- or anti-immigration). Traditionally, this coding has been done manually by humans who read and categorize the texts of interest. This method risks both systematic error (e.g...
Social SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We are seeking 1-2 new apprentices to assist with a synthesis and meta-analysis project examining the outcomes of low-head river restoration projects. The final deliverable for this project is the creation of a public database of restoration projects and outcomes to help centralize the available data on these...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
California supplies water to nearly 40 million people, sustains the most productive agricultural region in the US, and supports a rich diversity of freshwater species. However, persistent drought, extreme floods, and widespread environmental degradation are exposing significant vulnerabilities in the state’s water management system. Furthermore, decisions over how water is...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
River flow forecasting is essential for planning reservoir operations, defense strategies against flooding, and fluvial ecosystems management plans. However, flow forecasting is a highly uncertain science. One of the biggest uncertainties lies in resolving the timescales over which water is stored in the subsurface and time lags between perturbations in...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Environmental Systems Dynamics Laboratory (ESDL) focuses on the interplay between biological, physical, and human aspects of the environment using a combination of physically-based and data-driven models. Research topics include how river deltas grow or shrink, how landslides occur and mobilize, how deforestation affects precipitation, and how to...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
We are working on precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the relic thermal radiation that decoupled from the primordial plasma when the universe was just 0.003% of its current age. Measurements of the CMB have been central to the formation of the modern picture of the universe, and...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a unique window to fundamental physics. It can be used to probe primordial gravitational waves, which are a distinct sign that the early universe has experienced an exponentially rapid expansion at its age of ~10^-32 seconds. The CMB photons also probe the properties...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Precision measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have been a spectacular success. Measurement of CMB spectrum that beautifully matched to a black body spectrum confirmed the big bang model of the universe. Measurement of small temperature fluctuations within CMB allowed us to learn about geometry of universe, existence of Dark...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesPeggy G. Lemaux - Cooperative Extension Specialist, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
General Description Are you facing unusual heat waves or increased rainfall where you or your family live? Every country is facing the effects of climate change. They are not limited to heatwaves but also include changes in rainfall, more severe and frequent storms, increased threat of wildfires and more severe...
Biological & Health SciencesPeggy G. Lemaux - Cooperative Extension Specialist, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), is the fifth most important cereal crop worldwide and is a critical food, forage, and emerging biofuel crop. Understanding the photosynthetic mechanisms by which sorghum can capture sunlight more efficiently under adverse climate conditions is critical to using this crop to remove carbon dioxide that...
Biological & Health SciencesAndrew Leong - Professor , English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Japanese and English-language literary columns in Japanese American newspapers played crucial roles in pre-World War II immigrant society, offering opportunities for readers and contributors to think and feel more deeply and imaginatively about their lives in the United States. This project includes retrieving, categorizing, and studying literary texts...
Arts & HumanitiesAndrew Leong - Professor , English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Tessaku_ Tessaku (鉄柵, or “Iron Fence”) is a Japanese-language literary journal that was published by incarcerees in the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. It consists of nine issues, totaling 751 pages, running from March 1944 to July 1945, and includes poetry, fiction, and essays composed by...
Arts & HumanitiesDennis Levi - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in my lab focuses on how we perceive visual forms and patterns, and how form and depth perception are degraded by abnormal visual experience early in life (amblyopia). Specifically, we use psychophysics, eye-movements, computational modelling and brain imaging (fMRI) to study the neural mechanisms of normal pattern vision...
Biological & Health SciencesDennis Levi - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Most observers experience the world in three dimensions (3D) made possible by a combination of monocular and binocular cues to depth. In Amblyopia, a developmental disorder of spatial vision, a significant portion of observers have very coarse or no stereopsis (a cue for 3D perception). Previous research has shown that...
Biological & Health SciencesDennis Levi - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Amblyopia is a neurodevelopmental disorder of spatial vision characterized by a reduction in visual acuity. Previous research has shown that several neuro, oculomotor and perceptual deficits are also present in persons with amblyopia. Particularly, research has shown that amblyopes have longer saccadic and manual latencies to stimuli (i.e., the time...
Biological & Health SciencesDennis Levi - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Most people with degraded vision (amblyopia) lack 3D-depth vision (stereoblindness). Using a simple training, the depth perceptual sense can be recovered and some people can experience depth in 3D movie theatres for the first time. The goal of the project is to test this phenomenon extensively and investigate what...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Almost half the world cooks on inefficient wood and charcoal cookstoves. These stoves kill over a million people a year from indoor air pollution, contribute to deforestation, and release billions of tonnes of CO2. Improved cookstoves can dramatically reduce these problems and also save poor households substantial amounts of time...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
We are developing a curriculum based on stories, games and engaging activities ) to teach about health in poor nations (wash hands with soap, cover your cough, etc...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Roughly 1.5 billion poor people receive healthcare from roughly 1.5 million community health workers (CHWs). CHWs are typically women with limited education and minimal training. ChatGPT, GPT4 and their peers should be able to provide high-quality support, especially if trained on the local clinical guidelines...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
I am involved in a research project that is giving Android smart phones to nurses and midwives in clinics in rural Kenya. We need to program an app that helps them follow a checklist of procedures for a safe delivery. If successful, I hope this app will be adopted widely...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesJennifer Lewis - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae causes disease in a large number of different plant species, using the type III secretion system to secrete and translocate effector proteins into the plant. Many of these effector proteins are believed to function primarily in the suppression of host defense signaling. However recognition of...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJennifer Lewis - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae causes disease in a large number of different plant species. Virulence is primarily achieved by the type III secretion system, which secretes and translocates effector proteins into the plant. Many of these effector proteins are believed to suppress host defense signaling. However recognition of these...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceSamantha Lewis - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of the project is to create a digital repository documenting the life and works of cell biologist Dr. Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941). As the first prominent Black scientist in the United States, Just broke barriers not only via the uncommon elegance of his experimental designs but in integrating...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLu Liang - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The summer of 2023 witnessed record-breaking temperatures, with July being marked as the hottest month on record. The southern United States bore the brunt of this heat catastrophe, exemplified by the Dallas-Fort Worth area's numerous daily high temperature records—20 days surpassing 105°F and 42 days exceeding...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesLu Liang - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The urban heat island (UHI) and urban pollution island (UPI) represent critical socio-environmental challenges that have a global impact on cities. These phenomena, characterized by elevated temperatures and increased pollution levels compared to non-urban areas, are the result of significant shifts in human settlement patterns and associated anthropogenic...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesKent Lightfoot - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is an opportunity for URAP students to participate in the lab-based analysis of soils excavated from the Estate Little Princess, a sugar plantation that was active on St. Croix (US Virgin Islands) from 1749 through the 1940s. Over the course of the semester students will be trained...
Social SciencesKent Lightfoot - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Researchers in the California Archaeology Laboratory are continuing a long-term study investigating land stewardship practices of Native Californian peoples. The study involves collecting samples of archaeological biological materials (shell, animal, and plant remains) from a number of sites up to 6000 years old on the Central California Coast and...
Social SciencesMeng C. Lin - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Dry eye disease (DED) is pervasive with some reports estimating over 16 million adults diagnosed with DED in the United States. Currently, artificial tears remain an integral part of managing dry eyes and are mainly used for symptomatic relief. Lipid based artificial tears are often administered by dry eye patients...
Biological & Health SciencesFenyong Liu - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The long-term goals of our research are (1) to study the functions of genes of human herpes simplex virus (HSV) (the causative agent of genital herpes and cold sores) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) (the leading cause of congenital abnormalities in newborns and blindness and death in AIDS patients) in regulation...
Biological & Health SciencesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Lateral line sensory system, or lateral line organ, or simply the lateral line, is a system of sensory organs found in fish and some tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates). The lateral line enables those vertebrates to detect and perceive the hydrodynamic and physical environment they inhabit including movement, vibration, and pressure...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Scientific illustration is art in the service of science by drawing, painting, or rendering images of scientific subjects to accurately inform and communicate sciences. Research in fossil fishes (paleoichthyology) is at the junction of paleontology and ichthyology, and therefore, possesses characteristics of both —-- the incomplete nature of fossil preservations and...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Our study aims to explore the intricate details of mammalian hearing, with a specific emphasis on the function and evolution of the middle ear, with comparative anatomy with fish hearing apparatus. This critical aspect of auditory anatomy plays a pivotal role in the way mammals perceive and interpret sound. By...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Catfishes (Siluriformes) are remarkable among hearing specialist fishes in their possession of the Weberian apparatus, a conductive multi-ossicle chain linking the inner ear and swim bladder that is analogous to the middle ear ossicles of the mammalian tetrapods. Work with laboratory animals has produced considerable insight into the role...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesCynthia Looy - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
At present, flowering plants (angiosperms) represent ~90% of the land plant species and are dominant in most global biomes. However, the first flowering plant is known from the fossil record around 135 million years ago (mya) during the Early Cretaceous, much more recent compared to the gymnosperms, which first appeared...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesCynthia Looy - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In many ways, the Earth of the Permian period (298.9-251.9 million years ago) would have looked alien to a modern observer: the Earth’s surface was divided between the supercontinent Pangea and the superocean Panthalassa, strange animals neither mammal nor dinosaur dominated terrestrial faunas, and no flower would bloom for more...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesCynthia Looy - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of our project is to restore the student-run pre-pandemic pollinator gardens around the Valley Life Science Building (VLSB) that support native arthropods (e.g. insects and spiders) and other wildlife, and will function as an environmental education resource for students. We plan to engage students both inside...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesCynthia Looy - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Plants are adapted to the physical conditions in their environments, including temperature, precipitation, atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and light level. In cooler and drier habitats, leaves tend to be smaller with condensed venation and toothed margins. While under warmer and wetter conditions, leaves tend to be larger, have ‘drip tips’, and...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
My research focuses on enhancing Latinx child and family wellbeing, particularly among immigrant families at risk of immigration enforcement and public child welfare involvement. Specifically, my work expands our understanding of the impact that immigration policies have on the psychosocial wellbeing and trajectories of Latinx immigrant transitional age youth (TAY...
Social SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
U.S. immigration policies have become increasingly restrictive, exacerbating fears among Latinx immigrant youth and families at risk of deportation and forced family separation. Legal activity related to immigration policy and practice increased during the pandemic and provided the Trump administration with a pretext for tightening already stringent immigration policies. The...
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