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Michelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) is a vibrant research and informatics center for the campus and the natural history communities around the world. The world's natural history museums are responsible for documenting over 1.8 billion species known as a result of 300 years of biological exploration of the planet...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyJennifer Lewis - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae causes disease in a large number of different plant species, using the type III secretion system to secrete and translocate effector proteins into the plant. Many of these effector proteins are believed to function primarily in the suppression of host defense signaling. However recognition of...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJennifer Lewis - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae causes disease in a large number of different plant species. Virulence is primarily achieved by the type III secretion system, which secretes and translocates effector proteins into the plant. Many of these effector proteins are believed to suppress host defense signaling. However recognition of these...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceRita 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 & HumanitiesPriya Moorjani - Professor, Center for Computational Biology, Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Evolutionary history shapes the diversity around us. The historical signatures of our past such as population mixtures, bottlenecks and expansions, as well as human diseases and natural selection, have left traces in our genomes. In our lab, we develop computational methods and analyze large-scale genomic datasets from present-day...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBenjamin Nachman - Research Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This is an exciting time in high energy physics: there are many experimental and theoretical hints for new phenomena (such as dark matter), yet we do not yet have any significant evidence for new particles or forces of nature since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. This could...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceOlivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in quantitative marketing and industrial organization, including topics on product variety, pricing, and consumer demand. Examples of ongoing projects include work on optimal platform product variety, product bundling in video game markets, and consumer search and information...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesLaurie 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 ScienceChristine 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 SciencesPedro 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 ScienceFilipa 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 SciencePark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on the topics of human-AI interfaces for various applications in operations management. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] We are interested in exploring and understanding worker behavior in the changing nature of work, from gig economy to freelancing to crowdsourcing to remote work. Recent technologies create and accelerate new work arrangements that provide workers with flexibility in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJae Ho Sohn - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Radiologists are doctors who specialize in extracting clinically useful information from medical images (such as CT, chest X-ray, and MRIs) and communicating these findings with other doctors. We leverage abstract clinical reasoning and visual pattern recognition skills to extract hidden information in the images that may be important for...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAnthony Suen - Director, DSDP, Data Sciences, Division of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
PLEASE NOTE for this project ONLY: You do not need to submit an application through URAP! Please apply directly to the Data Science Discovery Program, the instructions are below. If you are accepted, you will be received research credit through a a separate course listing (not URAP). Please note: There...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceTimothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Icelandic Family Sagas are an intriguing window onto the social world of 10th and 11th century Iceland, seen through the authorial lens of late medieval writers. A striking characteristic of the sagas is the abundance of characters that interact in and across complex social networks as they first initiate...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceTimothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Berkeley folklore archive is one of the largest, student-created folklore archives in North America. Started in the 1960s, the archive houses over 500,000 records detailing the everyday life and informal culture of thousands of students and their communities. In 2020, the archive began digitizing these records. Along with...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMartin White - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI, https://desi.lbl.gov) is making the world's largest 3D map of the universe. In this project you will help us develop web-based data access, visualization, and analysis tools for use by thousands of scientists worldwide...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The human perceptual system processes faces in an unique manner. Humans perceive faces holistically (i.e. as a whole) rather than as a set of separate features. The face inversion effect is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for holistic processing of faces. Upright faces are identified faster than...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The recent advent of autonomous vehicles (AV) in the last decade has changed the traditional role of drivers. Currently, autonomous cars being developed and commercialized are not fully autonomous. In fact, commercially-available AV take control of only some of the driving functions, such as speed, or are highly automated...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Accurately knowing the timing of different events happening around us is a crucial ability of all human beings. In natural scenes such as movies or everyday life, dynamic events could happen either in the left or right visual field. Given that information coming through our left visual field will be...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The ability to quickly and accurately perceive emotion is essential in our daily lives. However, how does the brain process multiple sources of emotional information when making emotional judgments? The brain must take into consideration facial expression, tone of voice, body movement, contextual information, and even beliefs in its judgment...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project builds partnerships between community groups and academic researchers at studio.geo-?, an experimental mapping studio hosted out of the Department of Geography + the Berkeley Centre for New Media. It connects people and organisations who need cartographic assistance, from simple technical advice, access to geographic data + other resources to community...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In partnership with a wide range of Pacific-based organizations including Fåha’ Digital Media, Pacific Islanders in Communication, the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, and Blue Ocean Law, this wide-ranging research consists of two central projects: - Researching, compiling and mapping films about Pacific Islander stories, made by or in partnership...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
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Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
General Description The breaking apart of the American state is as old as the concept of the United States itself. This project seeks to document the scale of state secessionist movements through time using primary and secondary sources. The broader context of this project is a study of the co...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMark Wilson - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Critical Reasoning for College Readiness (CR4CR) is a project that seeks to develop psychometrically sound assessments that can be used by teachers in the classrooms at the high school and early college levels. Our goal is to develop, revise, and validate a suite of assessments, including unique assessment tasks and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAdam Yala - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI is the most sensitive imaging modality for understanding who has breast cancer, what is the extent of the disease and what treatments may be most appropriate. The effectiveness of this modality critically relies on the injection gadolinium contrast which “lights up” lesions on imaging; however, this...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, is a NASA-funded gamma-ray telescope which is currently under development and scheduled for launch in 2027. It will observe Galactic nucleosynthesis and positron annihilation, as well as the most violent events in our Universe (supernovae, neutron star mergers) and the most extreme...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a NASA high-altitude balloon mission designed to detect messengers of dark matter interactions in the galaxy. Apprentices are needed to participate in development and testing of both hardware and online software as GAPS prepares for a December 2024 launch from Antarctica. GAPS is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science