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Justin Remais - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
ALL OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE GROUP ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN-PERSON The Remais Lab is currently seeking a URAP apprentice(s) to collaborate on multiple domestic and global research projects on infectious disease and environmental change. Environmental, ecological and social dynamics are central to the epidemiology of infectious diseases caused...
Biological & Health SciencesJustin Remais - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Remais Lab is currently seeking a URAP apprentice(s) interested in gaining primary research experience to collaborate on a recently funded NIH project investigating the effects of expanding agriculture on infectious disease transmission. The projects seeks to investigate the effects of agrochemicals on parasite transmission using a combination of...
Biological & Health SciencesLaurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
As the nation ages it will also become more ethnoracially diverse. Primarily, the share of older Hispanics is projected to double, from 16 percent to 28 percent in the next 30 years. However, Latinx adults reach later life with more functional limitations and fewer resources to face long-term care...
Social SciencesRobert Rhew - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are will accept 1-2 spring URAP students to join the Atmospheric Biogeochemistry Laboratory for projects involving the terrestrial sources and sinks of trace gases in the atmosphere, including methane, methyl halides, hydrogen, and hydrocarbons. Students will gain laboratory skills and experience, including: prepping air sampling equipment, conducting laboratory chamber...
Environmental Issues Mathematical and Physical SciencesRichard Rhodes - Professor , Canadian Studies Program
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to create teaching materials that can be used to increase knowledge of Canada among undergraduates and the general public. This will include creating short articles for public distribution about Canadian culture, history, and contemporary political issues. The student's work will ultimately build towards creating a proposal and...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesFilipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Earth rotation was an evolutionary pressure for organisms to evolve circadian rhythms in order to be able to anticipate the rhythmic day/night cycles. These circadian clocks regulate physiological properties such as sleep, immune response and metabolism. Our lab studies circadian clocks in parasites. This project focus on performing bioinformatics...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceFilipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Parasitic diseases cause major health burden worldwide, with over 1 million deaths each year. Despite having the genome of many parasites sequenced, almost half of their genes are of unknown function. There are still major gaps in our understanding of host-parasite interactions and disease transmission by vectors. Our research...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceGeorge Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is focused on the residential urban gardens of the East Bay and how those gardens impact butterfly communities with a focus on the Western Monarch butterfly. The project covers topics of native and non-native plants, invasive arthropods, urban gardens, and changes in species interactions. This project is...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesGeorge Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In our lab, we are interested in the ecology and evolutionary history of arthropod (insect and spider) species. We mostly study arthropods from Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific, but also species in California and elsewhere. Some are native species, some are recent invasive species, and some are introduced...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesGeorge Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Are you interested in science news and social media? In our lab, we study the ecological and evolutionary history of arthropod (insect and spider) species--the "little things that run the earth." We mostly study arthropods from Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific. Our current project aims...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesGeorge Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Biodiversity surveys often accumulate many many insect and spider specimens, but it is usually hard to figure out what the species actually are. Many species are not yet described and many are found in an area for the first time, or the species are not yet in DNA databases. In...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesHector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States. Current guidelines recommend that women participate in breast cancer screenings until the age of 74. While false-positive results remain a risk, regular screenings may enable early detection of malignancies. Decisions about whether to undergo screening...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Quality of care disparities between patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and patients proficient in English have been well documented. Language barriers between patients and providers can lead to medical errors, poor chronic condition management, and undue difficulty accessing care. LEP status is highly correlated with other risk factors for...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesAlbert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Intermittent streams, or those that temporarily cease to flow or dry completely, are subject to summer droughts which can vary in timing and intensity from year to year. Fish and invertebrates in these ecosystems posses drought-response mechanisms that are broadly categorized into resistance and resilience strategies. Resistant strategists persist...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAlbert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Water conservation policies in Southern California are promoting the recycling of effluent, but reductions in these discharges may lead to stream drying and alteration of river food webs. Environmental managers are grappling with how much they should reduce discharges to some reaches of the Santa Clara and Los Angeles Rivers...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Location: On Campus
A remarkable development in the recent years has been the demonstration that a nanoscale magnet can be switched by a spin-polarized current, without having to apply any external magnetic field. It is a fascinating phenomenon from two different perspectives. Firstly, this effect is purely mediated by quantum mechanics, but...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed
It is widely believed that the rate of change in current in conventional MOSFETs cannot be decreased below 60 mV/decade. This means that to change every decade of current one must apply at least 60 mV. As a result, the power supply voltage in modern MOSFETs cannot be reduced...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Artificial Intelligence is becoming prevalent in many applications. In this research effort we are investigating new ideas of learning and inference. In addition to develop fundamental understanding of the algorithms, we are also designing novel hardware solutions that are specifically suitable for these Learning Machines, going beyond mere implementation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesDaniel Savson - DVM, Integrative Biology, OLAC
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The role of the veterinarian in the research environment has become increasingly critical in recent years. Not only are lab animal veterinarians involved in research involving animal health, but in research endeavors as they relate to and intersect with human or public health (e.g., nutrition, cancer studies, and infectious disease...
Biological & Health SciencesKlara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Welcome to the lichen lab! We study lichens; symbiotic associations between filamentous fungi and green algae or cyanobacteria. We are interested in how the symbiosis forms and is maintained over the lifetime of a lichen and over evolutionary time. We use a variety of approaches, including field work, culturing, and...
Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We are using a combination of microscopy and stable isotope (carbon and nitrogen) analyses to better understand the intimacy of the relationship between the filamentous fungal partner and the photosynthetic (green algae or cyanobacteria) partner within the lichen symbiosis, and how this will impact their ability to respond to global...
Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Natural history collections are incredible repositories of information. However, due to the sensitive nature of the specimens, they remain largely closed to the public. In the Lichen Collection in the University Herbarium at Berkeley, we are endeavoring to make our collections more visible while maintaining their integrity...
Christopher Schell - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
By 2025, the majority of the human population will live in urban areas. This prospect, along with global trends in biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, creates an urgency for understanding the linkages and feedbacks between ecological connectivity, wildlife health, and human health in urban environments. Through a number of case...
Environmental IssuesChristopher Schell - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Human-wildlife interactions that end with negative consequences (i.e., conflict) typically come from bolder individuals within a population that are more risk-prone and willing to approach humans and human entities. These interactions may also stem from individuals with superior cognitive abilities that use learning and problem-solving to exploit...
Environmental IssuesStefano Schiavon - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Findings from the Center for the Built Environment demonstrate that having a “good” window view can enhance occupants' well-being and alleviate discomfort. While several metrics are used to evaluate different aspects of indoor environmental quality, there is no reliable index to quantify window view. The...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBenjamin Schoefer - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We will conduct research in macroeconomics and labor economics. The student may work on early-stage and advanced research projects. For an overview of potential topics, please see my website: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/ Please do not reach out by email before you have been selected. I cannot respond to email...
Social SciencesMarieka Schotland - Executive Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Innovations for Youth (i4Y) is a cross-disciplinary research-action center that catalyzes on innovative interventions, practices and policies to improve equity and well-being for youth locally and worldwide. Our current portfolio includes work on marginalized youth, youth voice, youth participatory action research, and student mental health and wellbeing...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, grants, and more. It also provides technical...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Technology is rapidly changing, giving humans more options than ever to decide how to communicate with each other. Whereas online options to engage with others are expanding, in-person contact seems to be decreasing. How are these changes affecting the way people connect with each other? How does this affect...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If humans are social animals, then why do they choose to remain disconnected with people sometimes? Here we explore when people don’t want to connect with others, such as when they are strangers. In one set of studies, we asked strangers to have conversations on public transportation (e.g., buses, cabs...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research involving Large Language Models (LLM) is one of the hottest topics in social science. Nevertheless, a non-trivial amount of anecdotal evidence suggests that outputs by LLM could be biased, inconsistent, and unreliable. How can and should social science researchers leverage LLM in the research process (stimuli generation, response...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyLicia Selleri - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Craniofacial malformations are among the most common birth defects. Cellular and molecular programs underlying neural and craniofacial development are mediated by various signaling pathways, including those directed by calcium. Conserved involvement of calcium signaling has been implicated in craniofacial morphogenesis across species, from avian to mammal, but the mechanisms by...
Biological & Health SciencesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Keywords: cancer, radiopharmaceutical therapy, targeted alpha therapy, alpha particles, image processing, dosimetry, machine learning, digital autoradiography Radiopharmaceutical therapy with alpha-particle emitters (⍺RPT) is an emerging cancer treatment method that has demonstrated high efficacy in clinical trials for several types of cancer. Improvement of these drugs requires thorough pre-clinical...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Molecular imaging is a powerful method of interrogating biochemical properties of imaging subjects. Particularly in research, we use small animal positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), which are combined with x-ray computed tomography (CT). More commonly, these imaging modalities are known as microPET/CT...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Radiotherapy with alpha-emitting nuclides is an extremely promising technique in cancer therapy. The very short range of alpha particles compared to beta particles allows to deliver a much higher therapeutical dose to the lesion, sparing healthy tissue. A fundamental problem with this technique is the inability of current radiation...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Keywords: deep learning, artificial intelligence, prediction, Alzheimer's disease, positron emission tomography, PET, image processing, FDG, glucose metabolism, amyloid Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and a debilitating condition that affects a large number of aging populations. When symptoms occur, there are a very limited set of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCarlo Sequin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will participate in the development of JIPCAD, a design environment that can describe geometrical shapes (e.g., abstract sculptures by famous artists such as Charles Perry, Eva Hild, or Robert Engman) either through a simple procedural language or through an interactive graphical user interface. The typical workflow would start with...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Toxins play important roles in inter-species interactions, and the ability to overcome them can open new niches. The potential of animal genomes to facilitate such adaptations is limited; instead, toxin resistance in animals is often provided by gut bacteria. Human activity and industry has dramatically increased the prevalence of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Animal microbiotas are increasingly recognized as essential for host health. The gut microbiota is the richest, and was shown to contribute to diverse host functions. Perturbations in microbiota composition are associated with human disease, raising interest in manipulating the microbiota to promote healthier living or treat pathology. However, current understanding...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Aging involves a multi-system physiological deterioration. In addition to affected tissues, and likely as a consequence, aging also affects the gut microbiota, an extensive microbial community which contributes to diverse host functions. Imbalances in microbiota composition, or dysbiosis, are often associated with pathology, and recent reports indicate that aging...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Important collections of historical sound recordings exist in archives, libraries, and museums worldwide. Many of these items are delicate and cannot be played by normal means. In this research project we are applying modern optical scanning methods - confocal microscopy and high resolution digital imaging - in order to obtain detailed maps...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The aim of this project is to systematically recover and preserve a set of 2700 sound recordings, made in the early 20th Century, of Native American speakers across California. This project is a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the UC Libraries, The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A statewide effort was launched in 2020 to respond to pandemic-accelerated social and emotional needs of young people in schools. This project aims to build capacity at County Offices of Education around California to become regional hubs to support the delivery of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research doesn’t always involve the youth themselves. This project will train and support undergraduate students to partner with K-12 students across the state of California who...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesOswald Siegmund - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Experimental Astrophysics Group at the Space Sciences Laboratory is the world leader in space-borne UV detector technology for applications in astronomical and biological research. We are currently seeking undergraduates who would like to learn about, and gain hands-on experience of, the assembly and testing of microchannel plate...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences