URAP

Saul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Developing a deep understanding of complex public policy issues often requires more time than most citizens can reasonably devote. Because of this, political polls tend to measure people’s first impressions rather than what their more informed opinions might be. Deliberative Polling is a process designed to address this limitation. Participants...

Saul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

It has been thought that the accelerated expansion of our universe is caused by an unknown "dark energy" which has a constant energy density. However, there are currently hints that dark energy is actually evolving over time. If this were true, there would be implications on fundamental physics and potentially...

Angie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Founded in 2018, Village Movement California (VMC) is a statewide coalition of 50+ villages: local networks that connect people over 50 to the community, support and resources they need to live independently with dignity, choice and belonging. VMC represents more than 10,000 older Californians. Aging in America can be a...

Christine Philliou - Professor, History

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This is a collaborative research and Digital Humanities project I initiated in 2020 and our team includes scholars in Greece, Turkey, and several other countries. We are reading Ottoman Turkish and Greek sources about the population of Greek Orthodox in Istanbul and creating data sets, and then visualizations and interactive...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We aim to develop methods for expanding wastewater surveillance to new pathogens, enabling population-scale monitoring of a wide variety of infectious diseases. We are developing a novel Cas9-based targeted sequencing method to enrich antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in wastewater alongside their genomic context to identify the species and...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley is working to bring safe drinking water to communities globally by disrupting pathogen transmission pathways in drinking water through in-line chlorination. In-line chlorination is a water treatment practice where low-cost, electricity-free devices automatically add chlorine into water for the disinfection...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Contaminated water supplies in health facilities place patients at risk for antibiotic resistant infections, leading to poor health outcomes. Globally, more than 20% of health facilities lack even basic water services. To provide low-cost water treatment, the Pickering Lab has been developing a passive in-line chlorination technology, known...

Michael Polson - Staff Researcher, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Students will be working to support a project on the cannabis industry and the general work of the Cannabis Research Center in disseminating research and engaging the public. The project is a mixed method investigation of: 1) anti-competitive and monopolistic practices of cannabis investors and owner-operators; 2) protective...

James Porter - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Philosophy bibliographical research, collection, and digital scanning, with a special focus on the ancient Cynics and their afterlife, from the 4th century BC to the present...

Antje Postema - Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

On November 1, 2024, a railway station canopy in Novi Sad, Serbia collapsed, killing 16 people beneath it. In the days that followed, evidence pointed to widespread corruption as the cause of the disaster. What began as solemn vigils for the victims quickly transformed into the largest and most sustained...

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon reservoir, playing a major role in regulating carbon storage and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Within soil carbon management and climate change mitigation, agriculture is an important focus as a dominant human land-use and significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Integrated crop-livestock systems...

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Despite a surge in sustainability and financial data—from greenhouse gas inventories to climate and nature-related risk metrics—the challenge remains linking sustainability initiatives to financial outcomes. Data is abundant but siloed, limiting its ability to guide decision-making and creating missed opportunities for research, entrepreneurship, and capital deployment...

Ali Rahmati - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) instrument onboard the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission is primarily designed to measure energetic electrons and protons. SEP, however, has also proven to be a versatile tool for "bonus science" beyond its intended scope. The focus of this project is on reinterpreting several...

Leigh Raiford - Professor, African American Studies

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Since 1958, Bay Area educator, organizer and writer, Ms. Daphne Muse maintained a collection of correspondence that reflects the political and personal visions, voices, and struggles of activists, revolutionaries, political prisoners, writers, artists, entertainers, heads of state, and educators who profoundly shaped 20th-century Black lives and cultures. Before Ms...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project examines how the design of AI-enabled tools shapes people’s work processes and experiences. For an upcoming experiment, we are developing a browser-based workspace in which participants will review task materials, interact with an integrated generative-AI assistant, move through stages of work, and turn in workplace...

Gautam Rao, Economics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     

Interested in field experiments, primary data collection, and research management? Join a research team at UC Berkeley studying how to support student mental health at scale. Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler, and Gautam Rao are leading a randomized evaluation of a new approach to wellness support for students at UC Berkeley...

Eva Raphael - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide, particularly among urban-dwelling women. UTIs are primarily caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli). UTIs may cause a range of complications from mild discomfort to severe kidney infections. As antibiotic resistance increases, treatment strategies for UTIs become ineffective...

Onja Razafindratsima - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our research group is interested in addressing various questions related to the elevational patterns of birds in Madagascar. Over the past two years, we have collected field data on species distributions, community assemblages, and population densities along an elevational gradient in northeastern Madagascar. The student will have the opportunity to...

Andrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The Berkeley Risk and Security Lab (BRSL) at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy is an academic research institute focused on the intersection of technology and security. The Lab was created as an answer to the growing complexity of the national security and technology landscape, with an interdisciplinary team...

Diana Reddy - Professor, Law

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project is a multi-phase exploration of the relationship between the many laws that regulate work in the United States, social movement activism, political economy, and evolving public opinion on work and inequality...

Hunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     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...

Hunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     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...

Laurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Open     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...

Laurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Open     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...

Laurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project offers the opportunity to contribute to the development of engaging educational materials and the communication of academic research. Working closely with the faculty mentor, students will help improve the design, organization, and accessibility of educational resources while gaining experience in design, digital communication, and web content development. Students...

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     

Parasitic diseases cause major health burden worldwide, with over 1 million deaths each year. Despite having the genome of many parasites sequenced, almost half of their genes are of unknown function. There are still major gaps in our understanding of host-parasite interactions and disease transmission by vectors. Our research...

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The rotation of the Earth has exerted evolutionary pressure on organisms to develop circadian rhythms, enabling them to anticipate day/night cycles. These daily rhythms are observed across all life forms, regulating physiological functions such as sleep, immune response, and metabolism. Our lab focuses on studying circadian clocks in parasites...

Hector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project examines the uptake and impact of California’s Community Health Worker (CHW) Medi-Cal benefit, which took effect in July 2022. Using statewide Healthcare Payments Data from 2021–2025, the study will assess how CHW service use has changed over time and how uptake varies across fee-for-service...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Discovering molecular binders that recognize specific receptors is central to applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and microbiome engineering. Bacterial surface display offers a compact and accessible system to present candidate binders (e.g., nanobodies) on E. coli and test their ability to interact with target receptors. This project will use E. coli...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder driven by complex interactions between the host, microbiome, and immune system, with disruptions in this network contributing to disease onset and progression. Environmental and microbial factors can activate pathways that regulate intestinal homeostasis and...

Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

In seasonal wetlands like vernal pools, the hydroperiod fundamentally influences community composition and structure. Vernal pools are seasonal wetlands that are wet during the fall and winter, and dry during the spring and summer. They support many endemic plant and animal species, many of which are listed as federally threatened...

Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The largest dam removal project in history was completed in August 2024 in the Klamath River basin, in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Led by Indigenous Tribes, the removal of four hydroelectric dams restored hundreds of kilometers of habitat for salmon that are of cultural and economic significance. Indeed within...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     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...

Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Natural history collections are incredible repositories of information. However, due to the sensitive nature of the specimens, they remain largely closed to the public. In the Lichen Collection in the University Herbarium at Berkeley, we are endeavoring to make our collections more visible while maintaining their integrity...

Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The UC Berkeley Herbaria Archives document botanical exploration and study in California and western North America from the 1860s to the present day. We are seeking an apprentice to help our archivist with digitizing our collections and other archival research tasks...

Stefano Schiavon - Professor, Architecture

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

It is widely known that providing occupants with a “good” view to the outdoors offers measurable benefits, including higher property values and improved mental, physical, and emotional health. However, the selection and design of fenestration materials can significantly degrade this visibility, and we still have a limited understanding of how...

Eric Schickler - Professor, Political Science

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     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...

Hilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. In a recent collaborative work, we found that the transcription factor Ikaros is expressed in medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC), and important for the...

Hilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. We have found that the transcription factor Ikaros is important in development of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell that is part of...

Hilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. Ikaros is an important tumor suppressor in B-cell lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and we have multiple projects in our lab to study how...

Marieka Schotland - Executive Director, Public Health

Status: Open     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...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     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...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

How do people navigate their social worlds? Here we explore the psychological processes by which people think about the minds of other people, particularly in workplace contexts. The attributions that people make about others’ minds are consequential because they underlie decisions about how to interact with others, such as whether...

Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Molecular imaging using ionizing radiation (i.e., gamma- and x-rays) is a powerful method of interrogating biochemical properties of imaging subjects. Particularly in research, we use small animal positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), which are combined with x-ray computed tomography (CT). More commonly...

Andy Shanken - Professor, Architecture

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Memorial Women is a global digital archive of monuments to women. It serves the public, scholars, non-profits, NGOs, municipalities, and other public organizations that are interested in how women are represented in public space, both historically and in the contemporary moment. In a moment when people are coming to...

Marjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...

Marjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

LBNL researchers developed a novel method to restore early sound recordings using methods from precision optical metrology and data analysis (see: irene.lbl.gov). These methods have been applied to a number of important historical collections of early recorded sound. Over the past two years a project at the Smithsonian Institution in...

Kim Shelton - Professor, Classics

Status: Open     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...

Kim Shelton - Professor, Classics

Status: Open     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...

Na'ama Shenhav - Professor , Public Policy

Status: Open     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...