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David Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators have long taken for granted that electing minorities to local government matters, but we know surprisingly little about what changes when local governments become more diverse. Do cities spend more money, or do their spending priorities shift? Do the issues discussed in city council meetings changed? Or...
Clair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP team focuses on the Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Policy Index (SSPI), which is a dynamic composite metric tracking 57 indicators of global public policy to evaluate how well countries support people and the planet, encompassing more than 66 countries with data pulled from major institutional databases such as the World...
Social SciencesClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The URAP-Climate Economics team will evaluate a few major climate equity bills being considered by California Legislature. At the beginning of the fall term, the team will focus on analyzing the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, which is a bill that has been considered by the California legislature for...
Social SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on ecological and place relations in various sites facing climate and environmental injustice around the globe. This portion of the project focuses on Port Arthur, Texas...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesMilo Buitrago-Casas - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful technique for determining the elemental composition of planetary surfaces. When a material is exposed to X-rays, its constituent elements emit characteristic X-ray signatures. By measuring these signatures, an X-ray spectrometer can help reveal the composition and geological history of the...
Roland Burgmann - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Earthquakes are influenced by the properties of faults. Our ability to characterize fault zones and determine how they impact earthquakes is limited. The goal of this project is to perform a multiscale analysis of the rock surrounding faults and explore how it may impact how faults slip and generate earthquakes...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores the intersection of politics and clothing, across time and space. In particular, we are interested in the ways that clothing has been, and is, used to solve political "problems," including those related to economic development, geographic expansion, the projection of power, social movements, and individual or group...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesStephanie Carlson - Professor , Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Sacramento Pikeminnow are a large and long-lived predatory fish endemic to California and native to many rivers and streams in our area. One place they are not native to, however, is the Eel River Basin, a major river system to our north. Since their 1980 introduction, these fish have...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesStephanie Carlson - Professor , Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Mobile consumers may move across landscapes to exploit spatially and temporally variable resources and conditions, which can impact individual survival, growth, and reproduction. Furthermore, variation in movement patterns within populations can impact demography and stability. Understanding the factors that drive animal movements (and their consequences) is paramount to conserving imperiled...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesDana Carney - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Politics, Race, and Nonverbal Behavior We are exploring perceptions of political ideology. We are interested in the accuracy of detecting ideology, whether race plays a role, which nonverbal and paralinguistic behaviors play a role in the accuracy process and we need lots of help!! Working with AI will be a...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDana Carney - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
These are topics for potential projects to be started/continued in the Fall/Spring*** ***THERE ARE SO MANY PROJECTS GOING ON IN THE LAB- THIS IS JUST A DESCRIPTION OF A FEW. BUT OVERALL, WE STUDY NONVERBALS IN VOICE, FACE, AND BODY. HOW DO WE EXPRESS WHO WE ARE? WHAT...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMonica Castillejos-Aragon - Professor, Legal Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research project examines patterns of enforced disappearance, with particular attention to the experiences of families searching for missing persons and the institutional responses developed to investigate these cases. Research assistants will contribute to comparative legal and historical research, source collection and verification, analysis of national and international mechanisms, and...
Social SciencesMaggie Chan - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Universal social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) screening in school is a recognized solution to the mental health crisis among children and youth. However, the effectiveness of school-based SEB screening to address this public health concern is contingent on the fairness and validity of the assessments. Most SEB screeners are...
Maggie Chan - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Social-emotional learning (SEL) frameworks guide policy, assessment, and intervention in education systems, yet the field faces a major challenge. That is, dominant frameworks reflect Eurocentric, middle-class cultural norms, and competencies are derived from expert-driven processes rather than from engagement with the communities whose children are most affected...
Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project investigates how student parents enrolled in CalWORKs (welfare-to-work) program navigate complex welfare requirements while pursuing higher education across the University of California (UC) system. Grounded in administrative burden theory, our study explores how the learning, compliance, and psychological costs embedded in public benefit systems affect student...
Social SciencesChristopher Chaston - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Earth’s atmosphere is gravitationally bound to the planet. Even at high altitudes the large velocity required for escape into near-Earth space confines neutral atoms and molecules almost entirely within a few hundred kilometers of the surface. However, ionization due to solar UV radiation and particle collisions renders these now...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLu Chen - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our research focuses on mechanisms and regulation of lymphatic and blood vessel formation and implications in eye diseases, such as glaucoma, inflammation, and transplant rejection. Lymphatic research represents of field of new discovery in recent years. A wide spectrum of in vitro and in vivo techniques are used in our...
Biological & Health SciencesColleen Chien - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Firms increasingly set prices that are personalized to the individual consumer, using automated systems that draw on people's behavioral and personal data–a practice regulators have begun to call 'surveillance pricing'. Lawmakers in the U.S. and E.U. are actively debating how to respond, from transparency and disclosure requirements to limits...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesColleen Chien - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The "second chance gap" is the gap between eligibility and delivery of relief from criminal records through expungement. While "Clean Slate" laws automate this relief, a secondary gap persists: many beneficiaries remain unaware that their records have been cleared. This lack of notification may prevent individuals from re-entering the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project is a joint project between the Christoph and Chuang labs at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF. The Christoph lab studies the heart and cardiac physiology using computational modeling and 3D imaging. The Chuang lab studies lung development using mouse models and genetics...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesEmmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Medicaid is a public health insurance that in California, covers more than one in three Californians. CalAIM is a multiyear plan to transform California's Medicaid program (known as "Medi-Cal"). This project focuses on evaluating implementation of new Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports benefits in California's Medicaid program, and...
Social SciencesSusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system works in people with normal vision, as well as in people with uncorrectable sub-normal vision (visual impairment). Uncorrectable sub-normal vision can occur as a result of an eye disease (e.g. macular degeneration, the leading cause of...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system responds to the onset of vision loss as a result of eye diseases. By understanding how the visual system responds to vision loss, our ultimate goal is to develop effective rehabilitative strategies to help people with vision loss...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system recognizes faces and other objects in normally sighted people and people with low vision. Psychophysical methods, retinal imaging and functional brain imaging will be used to answer the research question...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Loss of vision in the central visual field brings about dramatic changes to everyday activities (e.g. reading, identifying objects). This research project focuses on identifying how the informative features of objects contribute to overall visual function, with the clinical goal of visual performance improvement by enhancing selected parts of objects...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCarla Cicero - Emeritus Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will assist with research projects that investigate geographic variation and species limits in birds. Work may involve morphologic measurements, color measurements, DNA laboratory work, and/or sound analysis. Positions are not available every semester, and students must already have some experience in the MVZ working with specimens and data...
Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project aims to build a high-throughput platform for single-cell sequencing of genetic and chemical perturbations. We will measure how thousands of CRISPR/Cas9 and drug combinations reshape a cell's phenotype and predict gene-drug interactions with machine learning...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From learning to follow classroom rules to adapting when plan A fails, children undergo a dramatic transformation in how they control their thoughts and actions. How do the underlying building blocks of cognitive control—such as flexibility, decision-making, and rule-switching—develop as children grow? How do child behavioral...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Over the coming academic year, this project would design ( and hopefully. launch) a personal professional website for a now-retired archaeologist ( Anthropology) that would include some links to selected publications, a photo gallery of some sort, and some descriptive text. Nothing too fancy but fun...
Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Short book-length manuscript on rhetorical issues in dialogic philosophical texts from Plato to Heidegger (based on upper-division course I have taught several times...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRyan Corces - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and is characterized by a loss of neurons and cognitive decline. Many different cell types in the brain become dysfunctional in disease. Single-cell sequencing studies from our lab and many other labs across the world have been performed on large...
Raul Coronado - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an archival project on the history of the printing press and development of print culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Intellectual historians tell us that how people have expressed their emotions changes over time. Some of my questions...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Seeking a project manager who can supervise the transcription and proofreading of transcribed 19th century Latinx family papers. Most of these archival documents have been scanned into more than 10,000 PNG files and have been transcribed by Google Gemini. A group of apprentices will work in groups to continue to...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesAdrienne Correa - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Macroalgae host a rich microbial community of bacteria, eukaryotes, archaea, and viruses in their tissue, collectively known as the microbiome. The macroalgal microbiome is especially important in coral reef ecology, as it is composed of microbes that directly interact with the surrounding environment. It is well established that macroalgae negatively...
Clayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *When do consumers defer to product-review...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyYang Dan - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Sleep problems are a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and in some cases an early warning sign before movement deficits. Sleep problems in PD are diverse and can be made worse by medications that treat other PD symptoms by affecting dopamine levels in the brain. While dopamine-releasing neurons...
Biological & Health SciencesSean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Sean Darling-Hammond is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and the PI for the THESIS lab which stands for Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools Dr. Darling-Hammond, and the THESIS team, conduct research to ascertain how k-12 school practices...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The THESIS Lab (Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools) features a vibrant team of postdoctoral scholars / staff, PhD students, Masters students, and undergraduate students. Led by Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond with support from Dr. Stephanie Guinosso, we are conducting an array of quantitative methods projects using data...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The THESIS Lab (Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools) features a vibrant team of postdoctoral scholars / staff, PhD students, Masters students, and undergraduate students. Led by Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond with support from Dr. Stephanie Guinosso, we are conducting an array of qualitative and quantitative methods projects...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Local laws shape housing, policing, business activity, public health, and everyday interactions with government. Yet these laws are scattered across thousands of websites, databases, and poorly structured PDFs, making them surprisingly difficult to find, compare, or study systematically. The Local Laws Observatory is building research infrastructure for collecting, organizing, searching...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Institutions influence behavior through more than incentives. They shape what people notice, how they interpret information, what they value, and when they feel responsible for acting. This project brings together several behavioral and experimental studies that will be developed or prepared for publication during Fall 2026. The studies examine questions...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Public Interest Technology Clinic works directly with public agencies and nonprofit organizations on consequential operational and policy problems. Rather than beginning with a preselected technology, the Clinic helps partners clarify the decision they need to make, determine what evidence is available, and develop a technically credible and institutionally...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesJames Davies - Professor, Music
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Does music make us human? This cataloguing project forms part of a broader research initiative on racial and decolonial humanisms. It focuses on the deep-level goldfields of Johannesburg and the archives of the 1948 University of California African Expedition, tracing the historical entanglement of early ethnomusicology and apartheid-era...
Brian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Guns and power go together. Like today, most forms of inequality in the global 19th century depended on a weapons gap. The unequal distribution of firearms helped determine power relations both between countries and within countries. Where did all those guns come from? And why did some have so many...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Are you interested in history? Intrigued by the secrets locked away in old, handwritten letters? Do you want to help create new knowledge about the past through archival research? Or put technical skills to work understanding the past? If so, here’s your chance. Brian DeLay (Professor of History) and Julia...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
None of the revolutionaries who transformed the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries could mass-produce their own guns and ammunition. They had to rely on the international arms trade. Aim at Empire is the first book to explore how access to weapons (or lack thereof) shaped...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano DellaVigna - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes the students to 2-3 ongoing projects that the professor (Stefano) is working on. The idea of this URAP group is to provide a sampling of research at the frontier in applied behavioral economics and in other areas of applied microeconomics that Stefano works on. As such...
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