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Sean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will focus on the extent of New York Times and Wall Street Journal coverage of Supreme Court opinions bearing upon a wide range of issue areas. Students will read summaries of court opinions, conduct searches of newspaper databases, read articles on the opinions, and record information about the...
Social SciencesSean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The presidents of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks are among the most powerful policymakers in the American political economy, but very little is known about who selects these individuals and how they are selected. This project explores the relationship between the representation of local elites on the Reserve Bank boards...
Social SciencesShanna Farrell - Academic Specialist, Oral History Center of UC Berkeley
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Oral History Center (OHC) of The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has conducted thousands of oral history interviews since its establishment in 1953, including deeply-researched, multiple-session interviews with individuals around the Bay Area and across the nation. Archival copies of the audio/video and transcripts are placed...
Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance. In this project, we will leverage techniques from big data and machine learning to structure and analyze large textual data, which can help...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research on economics of AI. The research uses unique measure of firm-level investments in AI and other emerging technologies, derived from individual employees’ resumes. The research answers key questions such as: Do new technologies such as AI benefit firms? What happens to the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Around one third of young children in Latin America co-reside with a grandparent. Unlike other regions, intergenerational cohabitation has remained common even with increasing economic prosperity. Grandparents may provide additional care for children with time or financial resources, yet they may also be a burden on parents if the...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Over 250 million children under five years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been estimated to be at risk of poor development, accounting for 43% of young children living in those countries (Lu et al., 2016). There are many reasons that children are at risk for poor development...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In Kenya, over 70% of the population is at risk of malaria, with the areas around Lake Victoria and on the coast presenting the highest risk, and children under age 5 and pregnant women being most vulnerable to infection. Over half of malaria patients access treatment via pharmacies, which are...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Background: Every seven minutes a woman is a victim of domestic violence in Brazil. Research on intimate partner violence shows that victimization is not an isolated incident. Because of the repetition of abuse, it’s possible that some women seek assistance from multiple sectors over the course of their victimization. Other...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMeredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
As global temperatures rise, more and more people are being exposed to extreme heat. Coping with heat-related risks is particularly stressful for households with limited access to cooling technologies such as fans and air conditioners. We have been working in India where it's estimated that over 300...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesMeredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The clean energy transition will require a massive build-out of clean energy infrastructure. Because wind, solar, and associated transmission infrastructure are very land-intensive, the projected scale of infrastructure expansion (a doubling or tripling of capacity) could significantly impact areas with high conservation value. Meanwhile, an estimated 1 million...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesEmma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
OSKI Tech is a program that introduces new technology to a range of students. It is designed to work as a portable technology instruction lab, with a focus on expanding participation in technology for students in media studies, new media, arts and social sciences. The core of OSKI Tech is...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBruce Fuller - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the role of Black Foundations in K-12 public education in the United States. We seek to track how Black foundations are directing grant dollars to education initiatives and analyze grantmaking practices by building an original dataset of grant awards. The research apprentice will play a key...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state offices of the attorney general are responsible to promote and protect competition; however, their resources to scrutinize proposed mergers and acquisitions are limited. The purpose of this project is to do background research for utilizing...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Healthcare providers and insurers have consolidated in the past decade, leading to higher prices without a commensurate increase in quality. The study will extend the evidence base on the effects of healthcare consolidation, including understanding the impacts of hospital-to-hospital affiliations and the impacts of private equity firms acquiring...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year (but reached $2 to $3 trillion in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid/recession fears, which are...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
AI technology and AI tools will change the healthcare landscape. The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, the project aims to understand AI technology's impact on the broader economy coupled with a focus on healthcare, including diagnostics, treatments, drug development and workflow processes. Second, the project...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesLupe Gallegos-Diaz - Lecturer, Chicanx Latinx Academic Student Development Office
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will be researching the various roles that Chicanxs and Latinxs alumni have played on the UC Berkeley campus. The research project will uplift, highlight and recognize 1) Chicanx Latinx alumni 2) their various intersectional identities focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, class and regionality 3)and generational...
150 Years of Women at Berkeley Social SciencesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Project 1: Hard and Soft Entrepreneurship Skills for youth in Uganda, Two RCTs *** We study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship programs. and innovative youth skill-development and entrepreneurship interventions (Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development, SEED, and the Educate! Experience) were implemented...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In your application, please indicate whether you are interested in project 2A or 2B - 2A, LIFT: general comms, events, and website support - 2B, LIFT: Blockchain white paper The Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is a new and exciting initiative housed at the Institute for Business and Social Impact at Haas...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is a new and exciting initiative housed at the Institute for Business and Social Impact at Haas. Personalization of financial technology (Fintech) promises to transform the financial well-being of customers and financial firms alike and generate new opportunities in the fields of decision...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project 4. Research on labor economics and inequality in the United States Project abstract: This project has two goals. First, this project investigates the extent to which racial preferences in labor demand practices prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reinforced occupational sorting or exclusion of black employees across...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAnu Manchikanti Gomez - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Misinformation (factually incorrect information) and disinformation (misinformation that is spread intentionally) about contraception and abortion are serious and worsening threats to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The spread and impact of misinformation has been exacerbated by social media. TikTok specifically is widely used by young people and has been identified...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAlison Gopnik - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
How does empowerment affect preschool aged children’s exploration and casual learning? All applicants must fill out the URAP application both on this portal and via the Google Form: https://forms.gle/Y51rrytNsC2wGNew6...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesEmily Gottreich - Professor, Global Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project identifies and analyzes a growing trend across the Islamic world, whereby unprecedented levels of attention and resources are currently being devoted to the preservation, renovation, and in some cases creation of Jewish heritage sites. It surveys projects like the refurbishing of synagogues and cemeteries as well as...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDarcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
My new book is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. Research entails locating pertinent sources such as paint kits, how-to books and...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks undergraduates that are interested in learning about how to design learning environments that center equity, sustainability, and the radical transformation of systems of inequality that emerge in educational contexts. Specifically, undergraduates will engage readings, data, and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students to develop analyses for...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The anti-testing opt-out movement is a grassroots movement in which parents/guardians choose not to have their children participate in their school’s statewide testing. This research is a social media ethnography in which we critically examine the discourse used in posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Writing Data Stories is a new project that seeks to reorganize how young people, especially linguistically and ethnoracially minoritized students, learn about and interact with data. A partnership including Bay Area schools, UC Berkeley, the Concord Consortium, North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin, the project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJunko Habu - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At our East Asian Archaeology Laboratory, we are analyzing artifacts and faunal/floral remains excavated from Jomon period sites in Japan. Jomon is the name of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture in Japan, which lasted from approximately 13000 to 2300 years ago. Unlike many other hunter-gatherer cultures, the Jomon...
Social SciencesJunko Habu - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project, you will have an opportunity to work on some of the food related issues faced by the contemporary society, with a focus on examples from Japan. As part of the umbrella project that examines the advantages of small scale food production and distribution mechanisms in terms of...
Social SciencesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH APPRENTICES - Please do not apply unless you can commit 9~12 hrs/wk (3 units) including mandatory online weekly meetings on Wednesday afternoons (exact time TBA). Want to gain work experience with Exhibit Development, Web Development, Data Science, Online Advertising, Art History, Media Archiving, Video Editing...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will conduct research to support development of new writing projects and possible new course offerings on the topics of AI Ethics and Social Media...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am conducting research on the ways in which ecosystems of philanthropic funding affect the possibilities of innovation in the nonprofit sector. I am particularly focused on comparing the ways in which nonprofit and venture capital fundraising differ, and how philanthropic funders may be able to borrow techniques from venture...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesGillian Hart - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am working on a book that compares the rise of right-wing nationalisms and populist politics in South Africa, India and the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Instead of seeing the three countries as separate cases or bounded units, the idea is to bring them into...
Social SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP fall term project be library based, reading through the literature on archaeobotanical organic remains from both the Amazon and Andean regions of South America to get the current assessment of where plants were domesticated and how they moved throughout the continent. The student will bring together a range...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
UC Berkeley's McCown archaeobotany laboratory completes a range of archaeological analyses and research. This project will focus on visualizing the archaeological plant and animal remains that have been excavated across an early residential settlement using ARCGIS to create three dimensional distribution maps of the ecofacts to study past foodways and...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project involves first-hand research experience with archaeological plant remains in the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory with Dr. Christine Hastorf and PhD student Elizabeth Dresser-Kluchman. The student will assist with the analysis of carbonized plant remains from the Gallina area in Northern New Mexico. This area was occupied...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The tech sector has a gender problem. Women are underrepresented in engineering and management jobs. Journalists and industry veterans have documented the bro culture that pervades tech and leads to discrimination and harassment. With 2 PhD students, I am analyzing gender inequality in the tech sector in 2 separate (but...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
My research team is analyzing employee reviews from Glassdoor.com to understand what topics or themes are most salient to employees. In other words, we want to know what employees say when they describe their jobs and workplaces. Although there has been a lot of research on a few topics that...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Avoided deforestation (also called REDD+) is generating the greatest number of credits on the offset market. The goal of this project is to study the quality of these avoided deforestation offset credits. This is an interdisciplinary study involving ten...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Many offset credits sold on the offset market represent significantly less climate benefit than they claim. We are conducting a series of studies of major offset project types to better understand their impact and quality...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's Voluntary Registry Offsets Database is an important source of information and transparency in the carbon offset market and has been widely used by researchers, offset credit raters, offset buyers, and others. We welcome help from two or three advanced undergraduate students in automating the database...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesCori Hayden - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a study of emergent and contested paradigms for understanding post-viral chronic illness. It has a historical dimension, a social theory dimension, and an anthro/science studies component. It focuses on how the proponents of competing paradigms are participating in a complicated public performance of power, legitimacy...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Our lab is interested in how the brain computes and represents values that allow us to make decisions. These decisions range from the mundane and everyday, such as what to have for lunch, to truly momentous ones such as deciding on where to attend college. This project, and others in...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
As a fast growing branch of artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) has made it possible to uncover subtle patterns and hidden trends in large-scale real-world text data. It offers researchers and practitioners powerful tools to efficiently derive novel insights and predictions that are otherwise expensive or even...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are looking for 1-2 student trainees who are interested in understanding the effects of early-life adversity/stress on economic and financial decision-making. Despite the well-documented fact of the impact of early-life adversity on life-outcomes, researchers and policymakers know much less about the specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data Science