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Todd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Spanish artist Jusepe Ribera interrogated the media of painting, drawing and etching in the vice-royalty of Naples. This publication project looks at the artist's In Ribera's work and its place in the Spanish Empire. His recourse to classical mythology as well as...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Beato Antonio Baldinucci (Florence 1665 – Lazio 1717), son of the art historian to the Medici court, was a Jesuit missionary in Lazio, known for his penitential missions, involving carrying a cross, flagellation and bonfires of the vanities. During these internal missions, Baldinucci carried with him a copy of a painting...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The French Huguenot ceramicist Bernard Palissy’s is famous for his casting of living specimens (amphibians and reptiles) for his plates. He was also a prolific writer, revealing his research in salt flats and his observation of fossils in the mountains. Palissy’s Discours admirable (1580) is a dialogue between Theory and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Simone Vouet was an emigré artist in Rome in the 1620s before he returned to France and became a major painter in Paris, most notably serving Anne d'Autriche, the mother of Louis III. This research project concerns the artist's production in Rome, most notably...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesDavid Oppenheimer - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality Anti-Discrimination Law brings together academics, advocates and activists from six continents to address issues of systemic inequality and discrimination. Much of our research, administration and leadership is done by Berkeley students, including URAP students. Our current projects include working groups on Sexual Harassment...
Social SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Youth should be meaningfully included and engaged in conversations about policies that directly affect them. Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a social justice-focused approach for promoting social change and positive youth development in which youth conduct systematic research and actions to improve their schools and communities (Ozer...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is conducting systematic review of the literature to describe the state of the youth participatory action research (YPAR) literature and synthesizing findings of the youth outcomes reported in these studies. YPAR is an approach that engages young people as researchers to study and address social problems within their...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesManisha Padi - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Biden administration has prioritized a crackdown on "junk fees" which proliferate across industries in modern times. The banking industry has been specifically targeted by federal regulators, resulting in a sea change in bank business models. This project studies bank fees and their effect on consumers using a...
Social SciencesManisha Padi - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project continues prior work investigating how local governments interact with home-based businesses in essential industries such as food production and childcare. Home businesses play a growing role in providing essential goods and services, as well as labor opportunities to workers with restrictions, including women with young children and...
Social SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, School of Information and Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The AskOski project (https://askoski.berkeley.edu/about) is a research and development effort lead by Professor Pardos to transfer the latest in big data and machine learning research to the domain of course guidance in higher ed. The recommender system is live in-production at Berkeley, with partial deployments at several...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, School of Information and Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Adaptive tutoring systems are designed to provide students in K-12 and intro college courses a personalized homework experience. This means giving the right problem to a student at the right time based given a continuous assessment of their mastery of a skill. At Berkeley, the ALEKS system is used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesRahul Parson - Professor , South and Southeast Asian Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The initiation of a liberalized economy and rise of right-wing nationalist politics has increased the precarity of vulnerable communities, minorities, women, and those seen as outsiders or immigrants. This project uses historical, archival, ethnographic, and literary critical approaches to vernacular cultures in order to make visible the new political...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesStephanie Pau - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Phenology, “nature’s calendar”, refers to periodic life history events such as the timing of plant leafing or bird migrations. Changes in plant phenology have provided some of the strongest markers of climate change impacts on species and ecosystems. However, most of this evidence comes from temperate or high-latitude ecosystems...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesLaurie Pearce - Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Are you interested in ancient civilizations and modern technologies? Would you like to contribute to the preservation of knowledge and cultural heritage? Do you have or would you like to develop skills with databases and image preparation tools? Research apprentices associated with the URAP project Ancient Texts, Modern...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A main challenge in time domain astronomy is that of classifying different types of high-energy transients from large datasets solely based on imaging data or sparse spectroscopic observations. As part of this project, the student will use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to identify different classes of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Strong gravitational lenses are very rare occurrences and are a powerful tool in studying dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities that together account for 95% of the energy in the universe. The strong lensing team works on a range of projects with state-of-the-art computation/machine...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Type Ia supernovae are used to measure the rate at which our Universes is expanding, today and over the past 10 billion years. In the past we used Type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Now we have developed new techniques for doing...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Sense & Sensibility & Science is a project which brings together researchers and educators to improve the way we use science to make decisions. Humans make decisions every day. As individuals, voters, and citizens of the world, the choices we make have the power to shape the world around us. The problem...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project will involve two different mini-projects: (1) HOMES Survey:(LGBTQ+/SGL) Housing, Health, and Services for Older Adults. HOMES is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project with LGBTQ+ / same-gender-loving older adults. It uses survey data from LGBTQ+ older adults and information from community partners from...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesAlexandra Pfiffner - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Lenition is a phonological process that refers to the weakening of segments in particular environments. There has been debate over what lenition means in phonetic terms, since there are many possible (and unrelated) processes labelled as lenition, such as plosives weakening to fricatives or approximants, affrication of plosives, flapping, voicing...
Alexandra Pfiffner - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is a forensic linguistics project examining possible sources of bias in the perception of disputed utterances. “Disputed utterances” refers to audio recordings used as evidence in legal cases where there is uncertainty / no consensus over what was said. This is common due to poor audio quality in cases like...
Christine Philliou - Professor, History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This is a collaborative research and Digital Humanities project I initiated in 2020 and our team includes scholars in Greece, Turkey, and several other countries. We are reading Ottoman Turkish and Greek sources about the population of Greek Orthodox in Istanbul and creating data sets, and then visualizations and interactive...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesSteven Piantadosi - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are currently working on a study that uses behavioral methods to research mathematical development in children. This study investigates the relationship between early mathematics and attention. It is funded by the NSF’s Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. Early number competence during childhood is associated...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley is currently developing SOIL-SEQ, a hands-on education module for local high school classrooms designed to engage students in a crowdsourcing effort to provide data to better understand the spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance through the environment. We are using cutting-edge, portable...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Globally, in settings without safe water access, women and girls are responsible for the majority of household water management. The time burden of water fetching has been described in the scientific literature, but the time burden of household water treatment is not well quantified. Depending on the treatment strategy, household...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Fecal waste from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is a known reservoir of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and contaminants from these industrial cattle, poultry, and swine farms can pollute air, soil, and waterways. CAFO workers, their household members, and residents of high-density CAFO communities are at risk of livestock...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Inadequate safe water infrastructure at health facilities places patients at risk for infection and other poor health outcomes, yet 20% of health facilities globally lack even a basic level of water access. To provide low-cost water treatment, the Pickering Lab has been developing a passive in-line chlorination technology...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPedro Pinheiro-Chagas, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC) Co-pilot project is an innovative research initiative aimed at revolutionizing the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD), such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia, through the integration of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs). This project is particularly significant due to the high prevalence...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are neurodegenerative diseases with numbers rapidly increasing and currently no cure. To accurately identify the earliest signs of clinical dementia, there is a critical need for sensitive, low-cost, and high-access cognitive markers in the preclinical phase. Novel cognitive markers can complement biomarker information...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Semantic dementia (SD) presents as a unique neurodegenerative disorder with focal atrophy of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). It is comprised of a primarily left-lateralized language syndrome and a right-lateralized behavioral disorder. One current challenge in this disease is in accurately identifying the distant brain regions that are...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Despite the enormous impact of the Venture Capital (“VC”) industry—it has helped anoint the world’s four most valuable companies—there is effectively no legal backstop that ensures non-dominant groups (e.g., women and Black people) have an equal opportunity to share in its wealth creation and innovation. Furthermore, while...
Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project seeks to uncover the social psychological underpinnings of the debate around inclusion policies and free speech. As college campuses nationwide have instituted policies designed to promote inclusion (e.g., safe spaces, trigger warnings, hate speech codes, and pronoun usage policies), furor and debate have ignited. On the one hand...
Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This study will examine judicial decision making at summary judgment (a particular phase of trial) in race and gender-based employment discrimination cases. RAs will assist with legal research and qualitatively code judicial opinions. RAs will gain experience using LexisNexis and Westlaw legal research databases (which are routinely used in...
Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This series of projects examines equity, diversity, and inclusion across various institutional domains (e.g., tech, education, etc.). Some areas of interest include understanding how diversity is perceived by both dominant and non-dominant groups and how this affects belonging, and how people interact with policies that may or may not...
Social SciencesMichael Polson - Staff Researcher, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Students will be working to support a project on the cannabis industry and the general work of the Cannabis Research Center in disseminating research and engaging the public. The project, overall, is a mixed method investigation of: 1) anti-competitive and monopolistic practices of cannabis investors and owner-operators; 2...
Benjamin Porter - Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Dhiban Project is investigating the animal economies and food regimes of a 14th-century CE village located in Jordan. During this period, Dhiban fell under the sway of the Mamluk kingdom, who controlled the region from Cairo. Little is known about the animal and plant economies of ordinary people...
Alison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Despite historical experience and health state capacity, Brazil has struggled to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas past administrations have proactively mobilized resources to combat pandemics, Bolsanaro’s administration has taken a more passive role, claiming that the negative effects of quarantine measures outweigh positive benefits. The lack of a federal...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
What are the main types of concerns that citizens bring to mayors and city councilors in Latin America? What sorts of incentives do public officials have to address these concerns? And how do these dynamics vary between cities of different sizes? In this project, we will investigate local-level politics...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Addressing climate change will require more than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It will require removing carbon from the atmosphere and durably storing it. Natural pathways for carbon removal, e.g. storing carbon in soils, forests, and wetlands, are likely to be the only way to achieve large scale carbon removal in...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Forest restoration is an increasingly relevant topic across the globe, hailed as a key component to solutions for climate change, biodiversity crises, and sustainable development. Despite a growing awareness of the importance of forests and the need for ecosystem restoration, crucial information on forest resilience and natural regeneration is often...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesNdola Prata - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project is focused on improving the lives of Black Birthing people in California. The postpartum period, or care after birth is one of the most important periods during the birthing cycle, yet there are limited resources during that time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesElizabeth Purdom - Professor, Statistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves developing statistical methodologies to analyze data from single-cell sequencing of individual patients. Single-cell sequencing of mRNA measures the amount of mRNA of each gene found in individual cells. It measures the diversity of mRNA within cells, and when performed on many individuals can allow us...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the experiences of Qawwali musicians in India through open-ended interviews. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily looking for trends and creating categories from the data. So far we have identified broad effects of gender and identity on satisfaction and success...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Virtual Coworking platforms (e.g. CoFocus, Focusmate, Flow Club, Groove) have experienced a surge in popularity during the pandemic, especially among students, remote workers, and entrepreneurs/solopreneuers. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily seeking additional employment and demographic information of virtual coworkers from their LinkedIn...
Social SciencesMichael Ranney - Professor, Education, Cognitive Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Reasoning Research Group has explored many controversies, but now focuses on global warming––that is, reasoning about global climate change and/or ways to slow/stop it. We often study (1) how numbers and/or factual information improve conceptual understandings of climate change, and (2) the psychological relationships among...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyAndrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
1. The Emergent Properties of Frontier Military Technologies Our scholars are deeply invested in understanding how new technologies—from dual-use technologies to those designed for military applications—might impact strategic stability and the prospects for international peace and security. Projects in this portfolio include research on whether the deployment...
Diana Reddy - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores the relationship between the many laws that regulate work in the United States, social movement activism, and changing American political economic commitments. Specifically, it investigates line-drawing in popular discourse about the meaning of work and how best to regulate it from the 1950s through today, during...
Carolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Chemosensory-driven hostplant specialization is a major force mediating insect ecological adaptation and speciation. In particular, the role of the olfactory system in mediating host specialization is well understood in many insect species, but that of the taste sensory system has been much less studied, despite its primordial role in...
Biological & Health SciencesCarolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Insects use multiple sensory modalities when searching for and accepting a food source, in particular odor and taste cues. Food-derived odorants are generally involved in mediating long-and short-range attraction. Taste cues, on the other hand, act directly by contact with the food source, promoting the ingestion of...
Biological & Health SciencesCarolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Herbivory is a major evolutionary achievement in insects, with nearly half of all existing species feeding on living plants. While many herbivorous insects feed in many plant species, most herbivorous are specialists, with larvae feeding and adults ovipositing on a small number of closely related plant species. Transitions from a...
Biological & Health Sciences