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Hunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Public service is under strain. Government agencies today face unprecedented political attacks and mounting challenges in attracting and retaining skilled workers. Yet the strength of the state depends on its people: without committed professionals, government cannot carry out its core functions. From public health to law, education, and regulation, a...
Social SciencesHunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Note: This project is co-mentored by Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor in the Business and Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business (cailin.slattery@berkeley.edu), and Hunter Rendleman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science (hrendleman@berkeley.edu) Project Description Lawyers perform an indispensable role in modern democratic societies...
Social SciencesLaurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project involves working with the life time stories of older Chinese immigrants living in the Bay Area. The stories are focused on the ways they contribute to the community here and prior to immigration. For this phase of the project, we are looking for students who would like to...
Social SciencesLaurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project explores the experiences of Latine older adults participating in the community. As a URAP apprentice you will have the opportunity to assist with several projects all pertaining to this topic. You will have the opportunity to assist in developing literature reviews, journal formatting, working with community partners to...
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 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 SciencesHannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to format translated and transcribed linguistic interviews collected during fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire, with the goal of archiving the interviews and their transcriptions and translations for use by other researchers as well as community members. The language of study for this project is Guébie, an endangered Kru...
Social SciencesHannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Some morphology is affixal, appearing sequentially before or after roots to add derivational or inflectional meanings. In other cases, morphology is stem-internal: it affects the identity of vowels or consonants in the base, changes the tone or stress of the base, or even removes segmental content from the base...
Social SciencesHannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves reformatting and editing a descriptive grammar of the endangered Guébie (Kru) language of Côte d'Ivoire, which has been documented, described, and analyzed by Professor Hannah Sande and her students over the past 12 years. Professor Sande is finishing up a grammar that presents the first description of...
Social SciencesHannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to document, describe, analyze, write up, and possibly present and publish about the morphophonology of plural marking in Lobi, a Gur language spoken in West Africa. Plural morphology in Lobi is likely historically related to a noun class system, though synchronically there are no longer noun-class...
Social SciencesEric Schickler - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Union members have increasingly left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party. Despite this, many labor union leaders still prominently support the Democratic Party with a few exceptions. How is that the case when labor unions are ostensibly democratically designed? Specifically, why are union leaders so overwhelmingly supportive of...
Social SciencesEric Schickler - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
State parties regularly produce platforms that outline their positions on major issues facing the state and nation. These platforms have been used by scholars to understand the development of party polarization, changes in party positions on major issues, and dynamics of accountability and responsiveness in the U.S. political system. They...
Social SciencesCarlos Schmidt-Padilla - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Secure and well-functioning property rights are a core institution behind investment, access to credit, and local development—yet in much of Latin America, property records are fragmented across registries and cadastral offices, and the quality of titling and enforcement varies widely across space and time. This project assembles and...
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: Current Term Now Closed 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, and more. It also provides technical and...
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
Human-GAI Interaction is inevitably becoming more common. We seek to address the following research questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of mandatory disclosure of non-political deepfake commercials? Would the disclosure affect people's trust towards the political information they see? 2. How could GAI aid crowd-based...
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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can 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 create SEL tools for a statewide youth program: Friday Night Live. Specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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 & HumanitiesNa'ama Shenhav - Professor , Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Beyond being a source of income, jobs can potentially convey information about a worker’s abilities, personality, or values. For example, individuals may assume that a person who is a teacher is empathetic, or that a lawyer is assertive. In turn, this could imply that a person’s job may affect how...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
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
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
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
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 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 SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
About Us 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...
Social SciencesCailin Slattery - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in industrial organization and political economy, including topics on lobbying, state government, and business subsidies. Examples of ongoing projects include work on regulations that prevent Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers, and the state's use of...
Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". The goal of this program is to provide a comprehensive, hands-on research experience to highly motivated students, while making valuable contributions to...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". This project explores how Hindu and Muslim children in India develop religious concepts and beliefs. Our project is part of a larger international...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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 SciencesSameer Srivastava - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Professor Sameer Srivastava uses computational methods to: (1) unpack the complex interrelationships between group culture, individual cognition, and interpersonal networks; and (2) examine how they jointly relate to individual attainment and organizational performance. Professor Srivastava directs the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation and the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Every satellite image, command signals to control a spacecraft or probe, and all the resulting science dataset from space missions are made possible by a largely invisible layer of ground-based digital infrastructure—complex systems that enable the transmission, storage, and processing of high-volume data across facilities distributed across...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesScott Straus - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How should scholars conceptualize contemporary African International Relations? In today’s increasingly multipolar world, many African states are dialing back relations with traditional partners—such as France—and engaging with a broader suite of states outside the region. While China has been increasingly active on the continent since the 1990s, several...
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
Our partnered project is a community-based, collaborative partnership involving Berkeley archaeologists and the Colfax-Todds Valley and Shingle Springs InterTribal Ecological Restoration (INTER) Crew. Tribal Leaders from Colfax-Todds Valley Considated Tribes and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok mentor our research at their Ancestral Places in the foothills of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Archaeological Research Facility is teaming with us to develop detailed photorealistic 3D models of WW2 aircraft that went down in remote areas. The project team has begun detailed photo documentation of vintage aircraft in museums and private collections to understand what airframe components (hard points and high-density parts...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Ghost Ranch rockshelter archaeology project is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of California and Ghost Ranch Museums in New Mexico near Abiquiu. The project is seeking to map and record the features in a 3000 year old rockshelter site for which out team is...
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: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
School recess is an evidence-backed approach to increase school-based opportunities for students to play, accrue necessary physical activity, and socialize with peers, to the benefit of their physical, academic, and socioemotional health. As such, the Centers for Disease Control recommend at least 20 min of daily recess in...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is one of the nation’s most effective public health nutrition programs. It provides free, healthy foods and personalized nutrition education, breastfeeding support and referrals to other services for over 6.8 million low-income pregnant and postpartum women and...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research focuses on how Generative AI, predictive algorithms, and school accountability (i.e., AAA) are transforming instruction, student engagement, and interpersonal relationships in higher education. Using in-depth longitudinal interviews of undergraduate and graduate students, the study attempts to understand not just how technologies affect humans, but also how technologies...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology