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Laurent 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 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 & HumanitiesHector 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 SciencesBenjamin 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 & PsychologyValerie 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 & HumanitiesPark 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 & TechnologiesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Youth Equity Disovery Initiative-YEDI
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem...
Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of this program is to provide a comprehensive, hands-on research experience to highly motivated students, while making valuable contributions to cognitive science. Our lab's research explores how linguistic, cognitive, and social abilities arise during human development. A central goal of our research is exploring how...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project explores how Hindu and Muslim children in India develop religious concepts and beliefs. Our project is part of a larger international, cross-cultural study. We are interested in questions including how children develop concepts of religious and supernatural entities, how children reason about religious norms, how religious beliefs...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
During 2020-2021, families were often forced to change their daily routines and encountered newfound or exacerbated life stressors. We are interested in exploring whether these changes impacted parent-child conversations each day. This study researches parents’ and children’s daily routines during the COVID-19 pandemic through surveys that measure activities...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Differences in academic achievement between high and low socioeconomic status (SES) children arise at a very early age. Understanding the factors that give rise to these differences is essential for understanding the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The East Bay Financial Needs Study (EBFNS) tests the idea that the psychological experience...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate the sustainability of subsea cables--the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate the sustainability of subsea cables--the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate the sustainability of subsea cables--the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesBrandi Summers - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is part of a forthcoming book on how Black resistance has laid the foundation for movements and formations that reclaim space through public cultures, electoral and grassroots politics, and in the aesthetics of everyday life. The overall project explores and highlights the roots and routes of this resistance...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesBrandi Summers - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Archive of Urban Futures is a collaborative project with Moms 4 Housing -- most recently known for their work in organizing the Moms 4 Housing movement in West Oakland. The archive will take the form of a database of material, and related activities/programs, about Oakland, CA and visions of...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesBrandi Summers - Professor , Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
GENERAL DESCRIPTION Black Lives at Cal (BLAC) is a multi-year initiative to celebrate, defend, and advance the legacy of Black people at the University of California, Berkeley, since the university’s founding in 1868. Formed in 2021 as both a research endeavor and an archival venue, BLAC researches, preserves, and...
Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This position involves coordinating and helping with the curation of comparative (non-human) skeletal specimens held in the Bear Bones Zooarchaeology lab. Specifically, this will involve supervised care, organization and accounting of mammals, fish, and bird skeletons. If desired, apprentices will also have the opportunity to assist with specimen prep...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Picuris Pueblo Collaborative Field Program is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, and Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico near Taos. The project is seeking to map and record the outlying field structures surrounding the present-day Pueblo. Melanie...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Bear Bones Lab Group is partnered in several community-based, collaborative relationships involving Berkeley archaeologists, Native communities in California such as the United Auburn Indian Community, the North Fork Mono, Mono Lake Kutzadika’a, and the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú and its Library and Cultural Center in northern New...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
It has long been known that co-speech gesture reveals aspects of on-line cognition which may not be revealed in speech itself. This project investigates the usage of gestures accompanying modals (e.g. CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD) and conditionals (IF-clauses), to see what understandings of modality and conditional relationships...
Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...
Social SciencesTimothy 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 ScienceHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Today’s youth suffer from unprecedented levels of physical inactivity and poor physical fitness, which contribute to myriad health complications, including increased risk for cardiovascular disease. School physical education (PE) is one of the most valuable tools for increasing physical activity and improving youth fitness and shows potential for reducing related...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UC Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) are seeking 1-2 students to support a USDA-funded research project studying how K-6 public schools transitioning to scratch cooking and using reusable serviceware can impact students’ dietary intake and environmental sustainability. This is a great...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research is a mixed-methods US and international research project, understanding the role of “outside school” organizations on education systems and school improvement. In particular, we study the role of philanthropic, research, non-profit, school support, and volunteer organizations in education. There are three sub-projects that students can...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyTina Trujillo - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
At the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP), researchers are using an interdisciplinary approach that combines basic science, professional preparation, and public education. In the 2023-24 academic year, the Center will begin training practitioners to safely facilitate psychedelic experiences in therapeutic and research settings. I am seeking URAP...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
PROJECT 1.1. The Central Valley towns of Allensworth is partnering with Gadgil Lab and Health Research for Action at UC Berkeley on a research project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and National Alliance for Water Innovation. This project is about assessing community perspectives on water safety, community education, and...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The goal of the project is to conduct an evaluation of the Zoosiab program, a community-based prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce further mental health problems and social isolation among Hmong elders by strengthening sense of community and social engagement, improving both psychological...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The purpose of the project is to monitor and increase the visibility of Pacific Islander (PI) health disparities and align local health department efforts in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, and San Mateo to be more inclusive and effective in serving PI communities. The project activities include conducting a...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project involves numerous interviews. Its overall purpose is planning further projects to advance the mainstreaming within the public health field, both in schools of public health and among frontline public health practitioners, of recognition that spiritual and religious (S/R) factors are important, and that high-quality skilled attention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesKimberly Vinall - Executive Director, Berkeley Language Center
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The introduction of ChatGPT has impacted educational institutions and their policies, instructors and their teaching, and students and their study strategies in terms of its perceived advantages and disadvantages in the learning process. This project aims to specifically explore beliefs and attitudes towards ChatGPT in relationship to the learning of...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesSteven Vogel - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
I will be actively working on several projects in Fall 2023. 1) I will be conducting research for an international project sponsored by the Canon Institute in Japan called the Global Order Framework Project. The project goals include developing guidelines and metrics for monitoring the behavior of governments and firms...
Social SciencesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are publishing an open digital textbook on art and expression in New Orleans. We have a particular focus on vernacular music traditions, especially jazz. The textbook will include original, extraordinary multimedia content produced by a collective of professors, writers, artists, archivists, activists, and community leaders. We are creating and...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project involves translating testimonies given by slaves accused of conspiring to revolt. The testimonies are in French and Spanish. We will be working mostly with typescripts and in some cases with original manuscripts. We will also be integrating the new translations into an online digital edition of primary materials...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We will be collecting and annotating historical documents, photographs, songs, and videos related to the history, culture, and literature of New Orleans...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Students will help to produce an annotated bibliography of articles from African American historical newspapers addressing the transition from slavery to freedom...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies