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Kristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs
Aa majority of the data on Latino family and youth outcomes in the past few decades has, with minor exceptions, provided an undifferentiated analysis of Latino populations that often fail to account for historical incorporation and additional crucial identities such as race, ethnicity, phenotype, socioeconomic status, and generation in the...
Social SciencesMara Loveman - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Throughout the nineteenth century, experiments in infrastructural promotion such as the Erie Canal, transcontinental railroads, and Hoover Dam, inaugurated new roles for government in economy and society and contributed to the United Sates' evolution from a limited, fiscal-military state to a full blown, modern regulatory and welfare state. These...
Social SciencesJessica Lu - Professor, Astronomy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
My research group studies black holes in the Milky Way in two ways: (1) we search for stellar-mass black holes using gravitational microlensing and (2) we study the environment around the supermassive. black hole at the Galactic Center. Interested undergraduates may work in either of these areas. Possible projects...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJessica Lu - Professor, Astronomy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The Moving Universe Lab helps design and build the astronomical instruments needed to find and study black holes, star cluster, and galactic centers. We work on adaptive optics development projects on small and large ground-based telescopes (e.g. Keck Observatory). Adaptive optics systems correct for the blurring effects of the...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesRita Lucarelli - Professor, MELC (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Ancient Egyptian coffins are inscribed with spells and images which stand in for spells. All function together as a machine to resurrect the deceased and to guide them safely through the next world. Given this function, it is perhaps surprising that the texts from coffins are usually published completely divorced...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & HumanitiesSamuel Lucas - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Sociologists have differing, even contradictory views of causality. From May 2019 to July 2021 we interviewed several influential ethnographers, qualitative interviewers, statistical researchers, comparative historical analysts, and philosophers about causality. On this project we will proofread the transcripts, add emotion markers, and during a weekly project meeting discuss their perspectives...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesKam-Biu Luk - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Neutrino is a sub-atomic particle that was thought to be massless. Recently, a new phenomenon called neutrino oscillation, a transformation of one type of neutrino to another kind, has been discovered in experiments. These important findings imply that neutrinos have mass and they can mix among themselves. Neutrino oscillations...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesKam-Biu Luk - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project will provide experience with (i) high performance computing (HPC) on world-class computing systems, (ii) Bayesian statistical analysis, and (iii) neutrino physics. In particular, an established workflow that utilizes Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to simulate Bayesian posterior distributions from experimental data will be run by the successful...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesKristin Luker - Professor, Law, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is part of an forthcoming book on how contraception and abortion, common parts of American family life throughout much of American history, came to be regulated in the late 19th century, became liberalized a century later, and are now the focus of intense political controversy. That regulation has...
Social SciencesQihui Lyu - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
This project aims to improve metal artifacts in Computed Tomography (CT) images. In the presence of highly attenuating objects such as dental fillings, spinal screws/rods, hip prostheses, and gold fiducial markers, CT images are often corrupted by streak artifacts, making these images non-diagnostic and impacting the accuracy of...
Dengke Ma - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Genome evolution has enabled organisms to live in and adapt to nearly every ecological niche on Earth. Humans live in an oxygen-rich ecosystem and human tissues are susceptible to deprivation of oxygen (hypoxia) under pathological conditions, including ischemic stroke and heart attack. Many organisms, from anaerobic bacteria to hibernating...
Biological & Health SciencesDengke Ma - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The nematode C. elegans can be frozen alive, suspend life and revive later virtually any long after freezing, unlike many other multicellular organisms, including flies, fish, mice and humans. How C. elegans achieves this feat remains a fascinating unsolved mystery. This project will use our newly established reporters and assays...
Biological & Health SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Highly sensitive microwave (MW) reflectometry, like those used in Microwave Impedance Microscopy for probing local electronic properties in solids (see e.g. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6260/538), have been built with bulky, expensive, highly specialized, mostly manually controlled components so far. This project aims to explore the possibility of using all-digital...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The future of work is being shaped by a combination of extended reality, robotics and real-time virtualization -- the “digital twins” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin). In this project you will design and build the digital twin of a modern Physics/EE lab that provides nearly real-time info on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Having a virtual assistant who has read and internalized decades of scientific literature is a dream that may come true in the next decade. Such an assistant will significantly speed up scientific discovery and understanding by human scientists, and eventually become agents of new knowledge itself. To make this a...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
About 10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia farming communities began to settle in large villages and produce their own food; forever changing the social and physical landscape of this region. However, the emergence of social complexity and the dramatic social and economic changes that led to the origins of agriculture...
Social SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This Spring, work with state-of-the-art lab equipment and learn how to examine soils to find signs of past human environmental impacts. Over the course of the semester, students will be trained in the basic tenants of archaeology, geology, and geoarchaeology through the lab-based analyses of soils...
Social SciencesSimo Makiharju - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Gas-liquid flows play an important role in the environment, and in many transportation, biological and industrial processes. The FLOW lab is presently studying 1) structures of gas jets in water, 2) gas entertainment by plunging water jets, 3) air-water flows for frictional drag reduction, and 4) forces on...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesUlrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Looking for highly motivated apprentices interested in behavioral economics or behavioral finance research for 2022 Fall semester. We list here a selection of ongoing research projects. If selected, you will likely assist with one or more of them based on your interest, and/or with additional similar projects not listed...
Social SciencesUlrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is primarily suitable for outstanding students in Ancient History or Classics (ideally with some interest in law and/or in economics) or students in Economics or Legal Studies with a very strong background in Ancient History, Latin, and ideally Ancient Greek. This coming semester I am particularly keen...
Social SciencesMichael Manga - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The overall goal of this project is to understand how and why volcanoes erupt. This includes what happens when volcanoes erupt under the sea, how changes in sea-level and lake-level affect eruptions, and how eruptions evolve on ocean worlds (e.g., Saturn's moon Enceladus). For the...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesMichael Manga - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Long-Valley caldera is an active magmatic system in California. The goal of this project is to explore seismic attenuation changes with ambient noise seismic interferometry to characterize subsurface hydrothermal fluid/magma movement and surface snow loading deformation process. This project will use over 20-years of seismic data to...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesMichael Manga - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Artemisia and Oblong are two geysers in Yellowstone National Park that ‘thump’ before they erupt, with ground vibrations that can be heard and felt from nearby. Bubble formation and collapse inside geysers creates seismic energy that can be detected by seismometers. The purpose of this project is to investigate seismic...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesMichael Manga - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Mono Lake hosts some of the youngest volcanoes in California and one of them is actively sinking into the lake. The goal of this project is to quantify active volcanic deformation in Mono Lake and reveal the mechanisms that are driving it. This project will use InSAR, LiDAR, and geologic...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAngela Marino - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A special funded initiative of the Latinx Research Center, the Democracy and Media project seeks students with strong writing and/or digital media skills to assist in developing articles, visual media, and/or podcasts. Successful candidates will join a team of other students to plan, record, edit, and publish research...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRobin Marsh - Senior Researcher, ISSI
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will address the overall question: how can regional, national and local policies, practices and transdisciplinary collaboration facilitate inclusive participation in a rural revitalization process based on just and sustainable agriculture? With the median age of farmers in the mid-to-late 50s and serious issues of rural depopulation...
Social SciencesRobin Marsh - Senior Researcher, ISSI
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are generating quantitative and qualitative data from several research instruments to understand the multiple impacts of women-led organic vegetable gardening in Western Uganda. These instruments include 24 hour recall and food security surveys, general demographics, gardening and welfare questionnaires, and narrative stories. This spring semester we will begin...
Social SciencesCharles Marshall - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The colonization of land by plants and animals from the oceans was pivotal in our planet’s history, leading to major climate change and the evolution of the great forests, dinosaurs, and our own species. However, the first terrestrial and freshwater aquatic ecosystems are poorly understood due to a spotty fossil...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesCharles Marshall - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research seeks to understand the factors responsible for species dispersal. Specifically, we are interested in dispersals during an event known as the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). GABI was a large-scale exchange of taxa between North and South America via the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama. These...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesMegan Martik - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The huge diversity of animal lifeforms that occupy virtually every ecological niche on our planet are all produced through the transformation of a single-celled zygote to a multicellular, fully functional organism via the processes encompassed by embryogenesis. It is through tweaks and changes to these developmental mechanisms that new...
Biological & Health SciencesMegan Martik - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The evolution of vertebrates is intimately linked to the advent of the neural crest, a migratory and multipotent cell population that gives rise to many defining vertebrate characteristics, such as the jaw and peripheral gangilia. Where the neural crest arise along the body axis during developmement has great impacts on...
Biological & Health SciencesMegan Martik - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The neural crest (NC) is a transient stem cell population that emerges during early vertebrate embryogenesis. Characterized by its migratory behavior and multipotency, the NC gives rise to diverse cell types and tissue derivatives including elements of the peripheral nervous system, the craniofacial skeleton, and the cardiovascular system. The NC...
Biological & Health SciencesMegan Martik - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Neural crest is an embryonic stem cell population that originates in the neural tube and migrates into the developing organs such as the heart and gut to form diverse cell types, including neurons and muscle cells. BMP signaling plays an important role in their terminal differentiation, yet how BMP target...
Biological & Health SciencesChristopher Martin - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The physical interactions between organisms and their environment ultimately shape their rate of evolution and fitness in the wild, but we are only beginning to understand these connections between phenotype and performance. In this project, students will learn to film high-speed videos of Cyprinodon pupfishes to measure the relationship...
William Martinez - Professor , UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The present study is a randomized control trial to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of a school-based group prevention program (Fuerte) in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Public Schools. Fuerte targets newcomer Latinx immigrant youth (five years or less post arrival in the U.S.) who are at risk...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesJuan Carlos Martinez Oliveros - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Much of the high-energy Universe remains an enigma, with some phenomena that have been discovered—like gamma-ray bursts, magnetar flares, and supernovae— still to be studied, analyzed and better understood. With the development of technology in the soft/medium gamma-ray regime, we are able to “see” the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesDonald J. Mastronarde - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves research for a new and more complete edition of the scholia to Euripides. Scholia are annotations written in the margins and between the lines of medieval manuscripts of classical authors. In the scholia we find filtered through many generations of reuse parts of ancient scholarly discussions of...
Arts & HumanitiesDonald J. Mastronarde - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Gaspar Stiblinus, a scholar working in Switzerland, produced a massive edition of the surviving plays of Euripides in Basel in 1562. His work is of interest because he is the first modern scholar to provide summaries and analyses of the plays. His edition is very rare (although now images of...
Arts & HumanitiesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines policing in places that have had civil conflict and related crime, as well as peace agreements and interventions, specifically. We are focusing on a review of community-oriented policing in these contexts as well as how the end of conflict changes policing...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines how and why foreign intervention occurs by domestic invitation, as well as to what effect these invited interventions have on the rule of law. Intervention by invitation is increasingly used by intergovernmental organizations pooling resources to deal with transnational concerns. The treaties that enact these agreements...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is one of three pieces of a collaborative project between Professors Arriola, Matanock, and Mattes.) Countries around the world are increasingly confronting violent irregular threats such as insurgencies and terrorism. Yet, many countries have proven unable to effectively deploy their security institutions (including regular militaries, paramilitaries, and police) when...
Social SciencesSusana Matias - Cooperative Extension Specialist, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Household food waste is a major problem in the U.S. The average U.S. household wastes 31.9% of the food it buys, with an estimated value of $240 billion. Household food waste is a complex and multi-faceted issue and is affected by food-related practices (planning, shopping, storing, cooking, eating...
Biological & Health SciencesJimmy McGuire - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The island of Sulawesi in Indonesia is a hotspot of biodiversity and model system for studying the evolution of organisms. Our lab has conducted numerous expeditions to the island to document its biodiversity and collect samples for genetic analysis. Our lab uses molecular and morphological tools to reconstruct the evolutionary...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & HumanitiesJimmy McGuire - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Amphibians are the world’s most imperiled vertebrate group. Confounding efforts to combat amphibian declines is that we have little knowledge concerning most of the species and much of it not easily accessible. Since 2000, we have been developing an informatics platform to create a web page for every species of...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & HumanitiesSara McMains - Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Additive Manufacturing (aka 3D Printing) is a set of relatively novel manufacturing techniques that were originally used for prototyping but are increasingly used to fabricate end-use parts, which requires higher quality manufacturing. The goal of this project is to improve the quality of 3D printed parts using machine learning...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesPatina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Species distribution models use collection-based observations (museum specimens) and relate where we find species to the local habitat conditions. This relationship can be used to infer where else we expect to find these species, which can then be used to ask questions about historical distributions and how species distributions...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesPatina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Strawberry Creek is an urban stream the flows through the UC Berkeley campus. Over the past 30 years, the campus has focused on improving water quality, restoring habitat, and using the stream as a campus laboratory. In this project, we will monitor adult caddisfly activity over the year to determine...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesPatina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Studies in ecology and evolution rely on properly curated museum material and access to museum records and specimen. Caddisflies, in the insect order Trichoptera, are aquatic insects closely related to moths and butterflies. In this project, the student will assist with labeling, organizing, and curating caddisflies. The student will also...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesPatina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Intermittent streams are streams that only flow for part of the year, and often are dry throughout the summer. Aquatic insects rely on having access to water for at least some of their life cycle. In this project, we explore species diversity of adult aquatic insects during the dry months...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesTony Mercer - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The undergraduate researcher will assist in the operations of the Solar Probe SWEAP instruments and the MAVEN PF instruments, including spacecraft coordination, science data pipeline and processing, instrument health and safety, and python data reduction and visualization software. As a note, the researcher may need to visit the lab occasionally...