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David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This URAP position is a placeholder for mentorship of a project of your design. If you are an advanced student in CS, data science, or another discipline with a strong computational background and have a topic of interest in the space of cultural analytics or computational social science, feel free...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data SciencePatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to understand the impact of current immigration policies on undocumented students' pursuit of higher education. Its goals are twofold: (1) to identify which immigration policies in the United States support higher education for undocumented students, and (2) to determine whether Higher Education Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Emerging...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesGreg Barton - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our immune systems have evolved to balance defense against foreign pathogens with the capacity to damage normal “self” tissues. B cell and antibody function are central to this balance: in nearly all vertebrates, each among billions of B cells co-expresses 1) a highly variable B cell antigen receptor (BCR...
Biological & Health SciencesAnnaliese Beery - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory is focused on factors that influence affiliative social behavior in two species of voles. This project involves working with a graduate student training voles to press a lever to gain access to social rewards, and testing how social reward varies under different circumstances...
Annaliese Beery - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We maintain breeding colonies of meadow voles and prairie voles for social behavior research. This project builds on basic husbandry (covered by staff) to track lineages, wean new litters and determine pup sexes to maintain the long term health and robustness of our breeding program and provide voles for research...
Jeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
INDICATION OF INTEREST - JANUARY 12, 2026: Fill out this form ASAP so I can contact you during the application period about an information session and other topics: https://forms.gle/eYRcXJFNAVSub3T4A **** **** UPDATE - JANUARY 15 - INFO SESSION **** We are tentatively planning an information session on Thursday January 22 at 7:15 pm in...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyJeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
PLEASE NOTE A PROJECT-SPECIFIC VARIANCE FROM THE GENERAL URAP STATEMENT OF INTEREST INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DESCRIPTION BELOW. *** This project is a semester-long pre-requisite (requirement) for students interested in continuing on with the main Patient Support Corps URAP project. You can read the main project description at the...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am engaged in research that examines state policies regarding the imposition of child support payments for parents whose children are in foster care. An obscure federal policy allows states to charge parents when their children are placed in foster care. My work focuses on examining these policies across states...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The U.S. is the only country in the world that has not signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The position of children in this country is therefore ambiguous and contested. Examining news stories that pertain to children and families over the past five years, this study...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
When children are adopted from foster care, most states legally change the last name of the child to match the last name of the adoptive parent(s). In addition, states are required to produce a new birth certificate that changes the name of the birthing parent (and the second parent...
Social SciencesStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
1) Rapid Reviews\ Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of infectious disease-related research. RR\ID...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In addition to applying through the URAP portal, please fill out this interest form as soon as possible if you are interested in joining us: https://forms.gle/1jsvCGKgj3rb6KZx8 Potential projects for AY 2026-27 · We are interested in direct application of both home grown and other tools in building out (fine...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Psychiatric disorders, including PTSD, depression, alcohol use disorder and other addictions, are responsible for a large portion of both the global burden and US burden of disease. Current therapies help some people suffering from these disorders. Nevertheless, many patients do not respond adequately or cannot tolerate the side-effects accompanying...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In 2022, there were an estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV and 31,800 new HIV infections in the United States. The U.S. HIV epidemic disproportionately affects men who have sex with men and is defined by persistent racial/ethnic disparities. We have two ongoing projects evaluating access to HIV...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStephen Best - Professor, Townsend Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Undergraduate Humanities Writer covers humanities-related events and programs at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities and across campus...
Arts & HumanitiesDavid Bilder - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Malignant tumors are distinct from benign growths in their ability to hijack and disrupt various processes in the body. Some common examples that most people are familiar with are tumor invasion of adjacent tissues, recruitment vasculature to accelerate growth, and dissemination of metastasizing cells. However, a less well-appreciated fact...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In order to test the function of specific genes or the impact of genetic variants on phenotype, genetic manipulation is required. The aim of the project is to assist with development and implementation of methods for genetic transformation of sunflower and monkeyflower, the two main study systems in the lab...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A major focus of our lab is identifying how genetic and phenotypic variation that has evolved among plant populations adapts plants to their local climates. Understanding how these adaptations to climate variation across space have evolved will help us understand mechanisms by which plants can evolve to cope with a...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Flowering and reproduction are highly regulated processes in composite plants like sunflower which produce disks that are clusters of many individual flowers. Environmental cues like light and temperature interact with the circadian clock regulate what time of the season buds first start to develop, and the same integration of internal...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
During floral development, patterns of pigment are painted on to the petals of many plants, and these pigments often serve to attract and direct bee pollinators toward pollen and nectar rewards. We have found several natural variants affecting the nectar guide pigmentation patterns of the common monkeyflower in both the...
Biological & Health SciencesNed Blick - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
In my view, economics is a set of cognitive tricks and tools that help us understand social systems and make better decisions. But this is not how we teach economics. My goal is to design an online tool/course to help people learn these tools so that they can approach...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesAnne Bloom - Executive Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) is a think tank that explores, through interdisciplinary, academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief. The CJRI is chaired by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and directed by Anne Bloom, an attorney...
Social SciencesJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At the Global Opportunity Lab (gol.berkeley.edu), we view the world’s most pressing policy challenges as opportunities to develop transformative policy solutions. Harnessing state-of-the-art data science, computation, and analytic tools, we generate insights and innovations that promote prosperity and expand opportunity across the globe. Our lab is currently...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Over the past decade, the rapid proliferation of mobile phones, satellites, and other digital sensors has created tremendous opportunities to measure human behavior. These data also provide the foundation for the growing interdisciplinary field of computational social science. Non-traditional “big” data hold unique potential in developing and conflict-affected...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Street-level imagery platforms such as Google Street View and Mapillary offer an unprecedented opportunity to study urban infrastructure at scale. However, their coverage across cities in the Global South — and India in particular — remains uneven and poorly understood. At the same time, rapid urbanization across has created urgent and...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sustainable sand mining is one of the most pressing ecological challenges currently facing the planet. After water, sand is the world’s most valuable natural resource – over 50 billion tons of construction-grade sand and gravel were mined globally from rivers and beaches in 2021, accounting for 85% of all mineral...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMike Boots - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our research group in the Department of Integrative Biology researches the dynamics of infectious disease evolution and population biology in multiple insect systems, including Lepidopteran hosts (moths and butterflies). We are currently working on two interconnected projects: The first project investigates host heterogeneity by examining how environmental factors (such as...
Biological & Health SciencesMike Boots - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Our research group in the Department of Integrative Biology researches the dynamics and evolution of infectious disease. Pairwise host–parasite relationships are typically embedded in broader networks of ecological interactions, which have the potential to shape parasite evolutionary trajectories. Understanding this ‘community context’ of pathogen evolution is vital for wildlife...
Biological & Health SciencesMike Boots - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Boots' lab in the Department of Integrative Biology studies disease ecology and evolution across multiple systems, with research ranging from theory to empirical to field biology. This project focuses on the honey bee – native bee – virus field system. Each year managed honey bees in the USA face high overwintering...
Biological & Health SciencesMike Boots - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our research group in the Department of Integrative Biology studies the dynamics, ecology, and evolution of infectious diseases through various systems. Almonds are majorly grown in California and require mass imports of honeybees for their pollination. However, honeybees used for mass agriculture also suffer from constant exposure to pathogens. RNA...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are working on a project to study the adaptation and evolutionary history of hummingbirds and sunbirds. Hummingbirds and sunbirds are two groups of birds that have independently adopted nectar as a major component of their diet and have evolved to be morphologically similar. Our project aims to explore whether...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My lab is involved with a large collaborative project to study disease transmission within and among species of wild birds. As part of this project, swabs of a variety of bird species are being collected to study their microbial communities (i.e. their microbiome). Lab studies suggest that microbial diversity can...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Students can assist with several ongoing research projects that investigate geographic variation and species limits in birds and integrate these data with quantification of prevalence of disease vectors such as bird malaria and trypanosome infections...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Nest structures are widespread across animals including insects, fish, amphibians, and most conspicuously, birds. Despite their ubiquity, nests remain one of the most understudied components of avian life history. Some of the most remarkable examples of elaborate nest design are within the passerine weaverbirds (family Ploceidae). Weaverbirds are an Old...
Biological & Health SciencesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Monitoring the status of wildlife populations is critical to assessing ecosystem health. Rapid advances in machine learning have recently allowed researchers to deploy acoustic recorders that autonomously capture and classify animal vocalizations, such as birds calls. Currently, UC Berkeley is preparing to launching the first ever SoundHub -- an open source...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Several aspects of global change are changing the dynamics of fire ecology across California and around the world. Recent fires have had devastating effects on livelihoods across the state, but little remains known of the direct and indirect impacts of these fires on wildlife species and the implications of those...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Non-invasive techniques are increasingly valuable for ecologists to be able to collect data on the distribution, population sizes, behavior, and diet of wildlife species. The California Wolf Project led by Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares at UC-Berkeley is teaming up with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
RNA-seq has been widely used in biological and medical research because of its capability to quantify transcriptome changes. Researchers usually use their impressions and experience to choose whether to analyze transcriptome changes in gene expression or alternative splicing levels. A more systematic way to determine whether to focus on...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Genome sequencing identifies a vast number of genetic variants. Predicting these variants’ molecular and clinical effects is one of the preeminent challenges in genetics. Accurate prediction of the impact of genetic variants improves our understanding of how genetic information yields molecular and cellular functions and is an essential step toward...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Proteins often fold into compact structural units, called domains. Protein domains are basic units of protein function and evolution. Delineating domain boundaries is a prerequisite for further analyses of protein structures. However, this process is largely a manual process and the accuracy of these computer programs is still not satisfactory...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Structural variants (SVs) encompass diverse genomic alterations spanning hundreds to millions of base pairs and can profoundly impact genome function by disrupting coding sequences, altering gene dosage, or perturbing regulatory landscapes. However, it remains challenging to determine which SVs contribute to disease due to their complex effects on gene regulation...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharles Briggs - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Title: Documenting Latinx Contributions to Health Care Access and Services “That's what you call solidarity. Everybody pitching in, everybody doing their part. We each one, teach one, each one, reach one!” - Yolanda Chacon- Serna (labor organizer and health advocate) “Health is politics by other means.” Alondra Nelson, author of...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators argue that Congress is broken because both parties' politicians take increasingly extreme positions on issues, failing to listen to voters. However, these claims are based on assuming that politicians of both parties don't adjust which proposals they make as voters' demands and the world change. In other...
David Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators have long taken for granted that electing minorities to local government matters, but we know surprisingly little about what changes when local governments become more diverse. Do cities spend more money, or do their spending priorities shift? Do the issues discussed in city council meetings changed? Or...