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Linda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Hearst Museum of Anthropology, located in Anthropology & Art Practice Building, has educational offerings that combine the exciting work of Berkeley researchers with perspectives from community members, looking at how they relate to the cultures and objects represented in the collection. We encourage visitors to think deeply about questions...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education, Cognition & PsychologyLinda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Development Department at the Hearst Museum focuses on projects that support the larger goals of the Museum: marketing, fundraising, communications, and project development. Students will be involved in researching museum membership strategies and designing digital and print marketing materials. Students will also be tasked with creating and evaluating engaging...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education, Cognition & PsychologyLinda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Registration division oversees and manages collection object documentation. URAP students will assist in the transformation of once hidden collections to fully accessible collections through: · Processing New Collections Acquisitions · Research and Cataloging of Existing Collections · Archives Inventory and Needs Assessment: Library and Publications · Archives Inventory and Finding Aid Creation: Research...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid 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 & PsychologyMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
How does the precolonial past influence contemporary African politics? This question animates a growing literature on precolonial legacies, yet this work has been hindered by imprecise and incomplete data on the nature of precolonial political organization. This project builds an original Atlas of Africa's precolonial polities in the 19th century...
Social SciencesMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The construction of the African colonial state saw extensive re-arranging of political space as European colonial powers sought to extend their control across newly claimed territories. In many cases, these subnational boundaries largely persist to the present, raising the question of how colonial visions of state-building influence contemporary...
Social SciencesMark 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 ScienceQing Zhou - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project LEAD (Language, Emotion, and Development) is a longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Health (PIs: Qing Zhou at UC-Berkeley; Yuuko Uchikoshi at UC-Davis). This study aims at investigating the links among bilingual development, executive function, parent-child and teacher-child relationships, and socio-emotional development...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesQing Zhou - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Since 2007, our team has been conducting a longitudinal study on socio-emotional and academic development of Chinese American children from immigrant families. The goal of the study is to identify the contextual (e.g., family, school, neighborhood, and culture) and individual (e.g., language, executive function, temperament) risk and protective factors...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesQing Zhou - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The research study examines the influence of grandparent involvement in childrearing with Chinese-American preschool-aged children. We collect child behavioral task data, questionnaire data, and parent-child interaction data...
Social Sciences Biological & Health Sciences