URAP

Markus Delling, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Inherited defects in Polycystin signalling cause ADPKD, a common inherited cause of kidney failure. How Polycystins function is a topic of intense investigation, in part because developing more effective therapies for ADPKD will require mechanistic understanding of how Polycystins inhibit cystogenesis, the main cause of kidney failure. Polycystins PC1 and...

Dzovinar Derderian - Professor, History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Armenian Studies at UC Berkeley and the Bay Area Community Armenian Studies on the UC Berkeley campus has informally existed since the 1980s and more formally since the 1990s. This project is aimed at conducting research (oral and textual) on the history of Armenian Studies at UC Berkeley and histories...

William Dow, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Robert 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...

Robert 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...

Arianne 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...

Arianne 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...

Andi Eastman - Director, Social Welfare

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub is a dynamic research collaborative located within the California Child Welfare Indicators Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The TAY-Hub is dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving the lives of transition-age youth (TAY) through rigorous research, engagement with stakeholders...

Robert 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...

Ethan 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...

Jan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

In order to eligible for the position you MUST COMPLETE THIS GOOGLE FORM and URAP application: https://forms.gle/9iweDwC2JrRNP82a8 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...

Jan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Moisés 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...

Moisés Expósito-Alonso - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Moisés 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...

Moisés 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...

Joline Fan - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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

Data cleanup of the PhiloBiblon netgraph database of ca. 220,000 records in 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 Iberian culture along...

Ronald 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...

Ronald Fearing - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The goal of this project is to develop an augmented reality (AR) based human-robot interface to assist in surgical planning, pre-operational simulation, and live visualization and feedback of a minimally invasive autonomous surgical robot designed for endonasal biopsies and ventriculostomies inside the human brain. A major contributing factor...

Anastassia 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...

Anastassia 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...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...

Alessandra Ferrari - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Cholesterol is a vital component of cellular membranes, with most residing in the plasma membrane while its synthesis occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Proper transport of cholesterol to the ER is essential for maintaining lipid, supporting esterification for lipoproteins, and enabling bile acid and steroid hormone production. The goal...

Alessandra Ferrari - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The complex genetic and dietary cues contribute to the development of obesity, but how these are integrated on a molecular level is incompletely understood. This project explores the function of LPCAT3, an enzyme involved in phospholipid remodeling and its influence on the types of fatty acids that are incorporated into...

Alessandra Ferrari - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common malignancies of the digestive system and a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality. Despite the availability of current therapies, patient outcomes remain poor and mortality rates high, underscoring the urgent need for more effective treatment strategies. Our research interests focus...

Christina Fidler - Museum Archivist, Bancroft Library

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on the post-digitization processing of two archival collections: the C. Hart Merriam papers and the A.L. Kroeber papers. These collections were previously digitized from microfilm reels, but currently exist as large files containing entire boxes of material. The goal of this project is to make these...

Trevor Fidler - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

We’re interested in identifying pathways which regulate macrophage function in atherosclerosis. In inflammatory sites like atheromas, macrophages accumulate, phagocytise necrotic cells, and uptake lipids leading to foam cell formation. Recent single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed that within these tissue macrophages can adopt multiple transcriptional states which can promote or...

Trevor Fidler - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

We’re interested in understanding why clonal hematopoiesis is associated with cardiovascular disease. Clonal hematopoiesis is a high prevalent disease in the elderly which occurs when hematopoietic stem cells acquire cancer mutations that promote cell survival. People with clonal hematopoiesis have a 40% increase in mortality. However, rather surprisingly this increase...

Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Biotransport Laboratory at UCSF conducts research related to structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of nutrient transport in bone and cartilage and harnessing nutrient transport for tissue repair and regeneration. The lab combines engineering and biology approaches for (1...

Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Biotransport Laboratory at UCSF conducts research related to structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of nutrient transport in bone and cartilage and harnessing nutrient transport for tissue repair and regeneration. The lab combines engineering and biology approaches for (1...

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

For tens of millions of years large parts of California’s Central Valley were flooded by the ocean, creating an inland sea with a unique ecosystem including now-extinct species of clams, snails, sand dollars, corals, and other groups familiar from modern California beaches. Some of the species that lived in...

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The formation of the Isthmus of Panama separated the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean, and the marine ecosystems on either side of the isthmus have diverged substantially over the last several million years as a result of this split. Compared to the strong coastal upwelling zones present in the...

Seth Finnegan - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Death assemblages’ are the actively accumulating shelly remains of organisms living at the bottom of the ocean. Because death assemblages accumulate over 100s to 1,000s of years, they are powerful tools to estimate past biodiversity. By comparing the ecological composition of living communities and death assemblages, we can assess recent...

Daniel Fisher - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

I am seeking 1-2 interns to assist a project spanning Sound Studies and Experimental Ethnography. The project aims to identify emergent research clusters of note in Sound Studies and Experimental Ethnographic research and to make the aims and aspirations of this research available to broader audiences across the US and...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common cause of contact lens-mediated microbial keratitis. Our lab uses in-vitro and in-vivo models to study the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the intracellular environment. Our recently published paper shows that intracellular bacteria persist in vacuoles, where they resist high-dose antibiotic...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is found to be the main causative agent of infection of human corneal and bronchial epithelial cells in bacterial keratitis and bacterial pneumonia respectively. To understand the etiology of chronic bacterial infection we look to determine the steps associated with intracellular biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We aim...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab has shown that P. aeruginosa can interact with and invade epithelial cells to establish an intracellular niche. We have recently found that intracellular bacteria occupy a subcellular compartment where they resist high dose antibiotic treatment. We are interested in understanding the factors associated with bacterial persistence and enhanced...

Suzanne Fleiszig - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The cornea is endowed with a high density of sensory nerve endings, including some polymodal by virtue of their Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) cation channels. Recently, the Fleiszig lab reported that corneal nerves can modulate the healthy cornea’s susceptibility to bacterial adhesion involving TRPV1 and TRPA1. Our new data show...

Gordon Frankie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Under the direction of Dr. Gordon Frankie, the UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab is monitoring diversity and abundance of California native bee species (1600 species state-wide) and their plant preferences at various locations throughout the state. In addition to studies in California, the Lab also investigates native bee diversity...

Silvia Fregoni - Staff Researcher, Berkeley Center for Law & Business

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Mergers and acquisitions bring together companies with different organizational practices, priorities, and cultures. However, we know relatively little about what happens to those differences after an acquisition. Does the acquiring company transmit its organizational practices to the target? Does the target retain important elements of its pre-acquisition culture? And...

Mia Fuller - Professor, Institute of European Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is the ideal URAP for students interested in a career in international diplomacy and/or foreign affairs. The Institute of European Studies seeks to enrich America's understanding of Europe -- its people, culture, languages, and politics -- through the generation and dissemination of distinguished scholarship. As the University's focal point for...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in teaching to personalize instruction, provide rapid formative feedback, support tutoring and practice through adaptive systems, and help instructors modify or extend existing course materials more efficiently than traditional lecture re-recording allows. AI tools can generate examples, quizzes, simulations, and alternative explanations tailored...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare is a health economics research center that conducts empirical research to inform health policy. Our research examines how healthcare markets, financing, and regulation affect the cost, quality, and accessibility of care. Current and past projects address healthcare market...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year. Hence, the potential for private investment to improve equity is significant, but would be the rate of...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Part 1: The U.S. medical education system is not value-based, but instead relies on a one-size-fits-all approach with one of the longest education and training durations among developed countries. The length of time required to become a physician increases healthcare costs and limits access to care...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This research project investigates weaving as both a structural and environmental strategy for architecture. Students will develop and construct a series of physical models that combine lightweight wood structures with woven surfaces. These models will be used as experimental prototypes to study how variations in weaving pattern, density, geometry, and...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project Description: This project addresses the challenges posed by extreme weather conditions and growing energy instability by exploring experimental approaches to managing interior environments. The research proposes architectural strategies that allow for multiplicity of indoor climates and environmental management. To bridge academic exploration with real-world applications, the project culminates...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This research project explores how a single interior can produce multiple thermal environments through architectural form, material, and passive environmental strategies. Organized as a loft containing distinct climatic zones, the project investigates how differences in temperature, air movement, solar exposure, thermal mass, and enclosure might allow occupants to move between...