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Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Computational cognitive models are mathematical tools that help us understand the underlying processes of human cognition. Researchers use these models to test different hypotheses about how the mind works. Traditionally, selecting the best model to explain human behavior relies on standard statistical techniques like maximum likelihood estimation. However, these methods...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Habits are inflexible patterns of behavior that have become deeply ingrained through repetition. When it comes to situations we are likely to encounter often, habitual control can be effective and efficient. When passing by the Campanile en route to class, you might turn left automatically, and eventually arrive at your...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From founding a startup to climbing the tallest peaks, people set a wide range of objectives for themselves. How do people decide which goals to set? How do they manage progress towards different – and perhaps competing – objectives? The proposed research plans to investigate goal setting in a range of naturalistic...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Navigating complex natural environments presents a robust challenge to even the most advanced artificial systems, yet humans can often handle these same challenges effortlessly. What algorithms underly these human capabilities to learn and generalize so efficiently? My research investigates the learning algorithms implemented by the human brain to efficiently act...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves developing a historical account of the women's sports at Cal in the years prior to the passage of Title-IX ( 1979) given that there were quite a few active teams and women student-athletes...
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: Current Term Now Closed 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 SciencesJason Corburn - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Urban gun violence is an epidemic in many communities. It has distinct racial and place-based inequities. A national community-based solution, called Advance Peace, is aiming to end urban gun violence using a healing-based approach. We are evaluating this intervention and asking: how does Advance Peace work? What...
Jason Corburn - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
How are communities in the Bay Area addressing climate change and promoting social justice? How can community knowledge be visualized to inform climate justice? This project is evaluating one such effort sponsored by the California, Strategic Growth Council in Richmond, California. The URAP apprentice with work with the Center for...
Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated 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, Ethnic Studies
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, Ethnic Studies
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? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesClayton 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 & PsychologyJohn Alba Cutler - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
During the early twentieth century, Spanish-language newspapers played a critical role in publishing literary works in Latinx communities all over the United States. Hundreds of these newspapers have been digitized, with literally thousands of poems, short stories, chronicles, and serialized novels in them. But students and scholars have only...
Arts & HumanitiesYang 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 or norepinephrine levels in the brain. While dopamine...
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 & PsychologyDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
According to the internet (and ChatGPT), it is unlawful to whistle for a lost canary before 7 AM in Berkeley. Are you skeptical of this claim? In which case, you would probably want to look up canary laws in Berkeley. Unfortunately, you cannot easily do this. If you could, you...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project examines how institutions shape behavior not only through incentives, but through responsibility, timing, and attention—and how individuals and algorithms adapt to those institutional environments. Across a set of empirical and experimental papers, we study situations where people are placed into short-run institutional “states” (e.g., waiting for...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project investigates how cultural factors influence individual motivation, focusing on a field experiment conducted in Kenya. By examining how local cultural values, beliefs, and social norms impact motivation, the study aims to provide deeper insights into the relationship between culture and economic behaviors. The research assistant will support the...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
According to the internet (and ChatGPT), it is unlawful to whistle for a lost canary before 7 AM in Berkeley. Are you skeptical of this claim? In which case, you would probably want to look up canary laws in Berkeley. Unfortunately, you cannot easily do this. If you could, you...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesJames Davies - Professor, Music
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social SciencesJeroen Dewulf - Professor, Dutch Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
My research focuses on the history of the transatlantic slave trade, for which I collect archival materials from/about Africa and the Americas. I am requesting assistance from one or several URAP students for the transcription of some archival documents...
Arts & HumanitiesWilliam Dow, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Mexico’s public healthcare system has faced underfunding, leading to saturation of primary services and reducing the quality and accessibility for the population. Moreover, there is still a large population that remains uninsured. As a response, people have sought private services to cover their demands. In the last 20 years, Pharmacy...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesRobert Dudley - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Flying insects are the most diverse and abundant form of animal life in the terrestrial biosphere. However, the origins of insect flight remain obscure given the absence of a transitional fossil record. This project will involve construction of a small robot that mimics the likely morphology of early insects, and...
Biological & Health SciencesRobert Dudley - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Hummingbirds are only found in the Americas, but in Africa and Asia some members of a different bird family (the sunbirds, Nectariniidae) can also hover, albeit for relatively short durations. This behavior has never been systematically characterized, however, and this project will survey existing video sequences from on-line ornithological...
Biological & Health SciencesRoger Eardley-Pryor - Oral History Interviewer, 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 hundreds of deeply researched, multiple-session interviews with women and men engaged in natural resource extraction, energy production, and environmental activism. Transcripts and original audio...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesArianne Eason - 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 ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesAlejandra Echeverri - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Traditional biodiversity monitoring tools, such as camera traps and acoustic recorders, are limited in scope, require frequent maintenance, and often fail to capture the full spectrum of wildlife activity. This project aims to transform how we monitor biodiversity by developing solar-powered, AI-assisted monitoring stations that can simultaneously detect...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesRobert Edelstein - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP participants are expected to work between 9 and 12 hours per week (pursuant to the mutually agreed upon contract between the student and Professor Edelstein). Usually, the URAP team will meet with Professor Edelstein on an as needed basis to discuss assignments, provide findings as well as interact about...
Social SciencesBethanie Edwards - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Help develop an improved lipidomic workflow that is optimized for marine compounds, specifically those found in suspended and dissolved organic matter throughout the world’s oceans (0-4000 m deep). Marine lipidomics allows oceanographers to analyze thousands of lipid compounds in a single mass spectrometry run. Lipids serve a multitude of roles...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesOfer Eldar - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
I am seeking a Research Assistant to support a law and finance project under my supervision at Berkeley Law. The work will involve scraping and analyzing corporate filings from the SEC website. The position requires strong proficiency in Python, including web scraping and data processing, and experience with large language...
Social SciencesEthan Elkind - Director, Climate Program, Center for Law, Energy and the Environment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment’s (CLEE) Climate Break podcast brings listeners stories of climate progress and interviews with climate innovators from California and around the world, in under 2 minutes. Our episodes are solution-oriented and almost entirely produced by Berkeley students—including undergraduates, law students, and journalism...
Environmental IssuesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To apply, please fill out this Google form: https://forms.gle/P3za6Er1XdTCzJN88 We address questions about the evolution and development of socio-cognitive skills by comparing humans to other animals (mostly chimpanzees, our closest living relatives) and by studying how children develop. How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To apply, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/3JBREzYm2rGJoALy7 By thinking together, human beings achieve things that are impossible for our primate relatives. In the long term, this is facilitated by cumulative culture: our capacity to absorb and transmit information through subsequent generations. Within each generation, this iterative...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesEllen Evers - Professor, Marketing
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab's research combines cognitive/social psychology, behavioral economics, and judgment and decision making research. Most of our research involves carrying out online or in-person experiments designed to test a hypothesis about human decision-making. Accepted students will work on a variety of projects within this area. Attendance at...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMoisés Expósito-Alonso - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The global climate is changing at an unprecedented rate due to human activities, threatening global biodiversity and food security. A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is: What enables or limits species to rapidly evolve and adapt to changing climates? In this project, we will use natural ecotypes of Arabidopsis to...
Biological & Health SciencesMoisés Expósito-Alonso - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Description: Spontaneous mutations fuel the rate of evolutionary change by increasing the amount of genetic variation across the green tree of life. Genetic variation is utilized within natural populations to improve fitness, therefore, knowledge of the historical bias of mutation rates and spectra across a genome and across populations will...
Biological & Health SciencesMoisés Expósito-Alonso - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Why do some plants thrive while others face extinction? While the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) tracks species risk, they often overlook a critical factor: genetic diversity. Genetic diversity is the "fuel" for adaptation; without it, plants cannot evolve to survive climate change or new diseases. Our...
Biological & Health SciencesMoisés Expósito-Alonso - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
International conservation policies including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework now consider genetic diversity of wild species in their targets. However, scalable, theory-driven tools to assess and predict genetic diversity loss are still emerging, limiting their use in conservation planning. Analogous to the species-area relationship, recent work has...
Biological & Health SciencesJoline Fan - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Our research focuses on deciphering the network mechanisms underlying the rich relationship between sleep and epilepsy. As human sleep networks have been largely studied using surface EEG with low spatial resolution and PET/fMRI, we employ recording modalities with high spatial-temporal resolution of whole-brain functional activity, e.g. magnetoencephalography...
Charles B. Faulhaber - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Conversion of the PhiloBiblon relational database of ca. 420,000 records to the netgraph architecture of FactGrid: a database for historians. The software used is Wikibase, the same software used for Wikipedia. PhiloBiblon is a database of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan primary sources (manuscripts and early printed books) of medieval...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceRonald Fearing - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We are looking for students interested in robot design, fabrication, and testing of pouch-based robots, for applications in minimally invasive surgery and beyond. Current surgical tools cannot navigate tortuous anatomical corridors, and as a result, accessing certain locations requires extensive tissue removal, general anesthesia, and a full operating room...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work on technical projects involving ML/AI. The projects include: (i) working with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance by structuring and analyze the large textual data; (ii) building custom large...
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 and policy work with web development and graphic design. The project involves maintaining and improving policy-related web resources such as Econ4UA.org, as well as designing and running experimental RCTs and surveys (sometimes involving new websites, sometimes executing simple Qualtrics surveys). Finally, the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences