URAP

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...

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...

Michael Silver - Professor, Optometry

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

The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) is conducting clinical trials with human subjects to investigate how psilocybin impacts the human brain and mind. We are currently running two FDA-regulated trials that aim to provide mechanistic insights that may inform the development of future treatments for...

Jennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare

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

Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem...

Cailin Slattery - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in industrial organization and political economy, including topics on lobbying, state government, and business subsidies. Examples of ongoing projects include work on regulations that prevent Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers, and the state's use of...

Carolyn Smith - Professor, Anthropology

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

The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley has a collection of literature and assessments related to Native American cultural heritage and the history of archaeological work in the western US states. The goal of this project is to catalog the collection of ARF literature and reports in order to...

Carolyn Smith - Professor, Anthropology

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

The Undergraduate Anthropology Museum Collections Lab (UAMCL) is a hands-on learning space where UC Berkeley students explore and build skills across all aspects of museum work. Curated by and for the UC Berkeley community, the UAMCL acts as an open resource to expand all University students’ interest in Museum...

Jae Ho Sohn - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Radiologists are physicians who extract clinically meaningful information from medical images, including CT, chest radiographs, and MRI, and communicate these findings to other clinicians. Their work combines visual pattern recognition, clinical reasoning, and precise communication to identify imaging findings that may influence diagnosis, treatment planning, prognosis, and patient follow-up...

Carol Spencer - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

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

We are taking new students for Prep Lab Assistant, Bone Numbering and Tag Tying, Bird, Herp, Fish and Mammal Curatorial Assistants. See descriptions below. At the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley, we offer many unique opportunities to participate in MVZ endeavors and learn about natural history...

Mahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology

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

If you have any questions, email lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". The goal of this program is to provide a comprehensive, hands-on research experience to highly motivated students, while making valuable contributions to cognitive science. Our lab's...

Sameer Srivastava - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

Professor Sameer Srivastava uses computational methods to: (1) unpack the complex interrelationships between group culture, individual cognition, and interpersonal networks; and (2) examine how they jointly relate to individual attainment and organizational performance. Professor Srivastava directs the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation and the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture...

Max Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology

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

Transcription factors contain DNA binding domains and separate activation domains that bind coactivator complexes. DNA binding domains are conserved, structured and can be predicted from amino acid sequence. Activation domains are intrinsically disordered (they do not fold into a single 3D structure), poorly conserved and cannot be predicted from amino...

Max Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology

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

Transcription factors contain DNA binding domains and separate activation domains that bind coactivator complexes. DNA binding domains are conserved, structured and can be predicted from amino acid sequence. Activation domains are intrinsically disordered (they do not fold into a single 3D structure), poorly conserved and cannot be predicted from amino...

Nicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies

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

Every satellite image, command signals to control a spacecraft or probe, and all the resulting science dataset from space missions are made possible by a largely invisible layer of ground-based digital infrastructure—complex systems that enable the transmission, storage, and processing of high-volume data across facilities distributed across...

Nicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies

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

Our research team’s forthcoming (September 2026) pair of online guides/slidedecks traces how digital infrastructures, such as data centers, are intertwined with geopolitics. The two guidebooks map digital infrastructure and discrete technologies at national borders as sites of contested sovereignty. Both of them explore the tension between border securitization and...

Jason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health

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

The overarching objective of this proposal is to create comprehensive cumulative impact indices that encompass the effects of both chemical and non-chemical stressors at the community level throughout the entire State. These indices will be developed using scientifically rigorous metrics, thereby furnishing robust tools to inform policy formulation including...

Jason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health

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

This project aims to assess the spatial and temporal distribution of brake and tire wear (BTW) concentrations across the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) and their potential health impacts on vulnerable communities. The research will apply advanced source apportionment algorithms to quantify BTW profiles at both various field sampling sites, using...

Ian Swinburne - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

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

Mechanical stress is a fact of life. Fluid pressure is required for the function of the circulatory system, ear, and eye. Tissues stretch and contract during morphogenesis, locomotion, and wound healing. But how do tissues (and the cells that constitute them) adapt and respond to changes in the physical stresses...

Lee Tan - Professor, Neurosurgery- Spine

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

The UCSF Spine Center is a leading contributor to the American Spine Registry, a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving outcomes for patients undergoing cervical and lumbar spine surgery through the collection of longitudinal clinical data. Our research team investigates minimally invasive spine surgery, predictors of cancer recurrence and complications in...

Timothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian

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

The Icelandic Family Sagas are an intriguing window onto the social world of 10th and 11th century Iceland, seen through the authorial lens of late medieval writers. A striking characteristic of the sagas is the abundance of characters that interact in and across complex social networks as they first initiate...

Timothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian

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

The Berkeley folklore archive is one of the largest, student-created folklore archives in North America. Started in the 1960s, the archive houses over 500,000 records detailing the everyday life and informal culture of thousands of students and their communities. In 2020, the archive began digitizing these records. Along with...

Rowland Taylor - Professor, Optometry

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

Amacrine cells are inhibitory interneurons in the retina that shape how visual information is processed before it leaves the eye. Although there are upwards of 60 distinct amacrine cell types in the mammalian retina, only a small subset have been well characterized. This gap in knowledge limits our ability to...

Hannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health

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

Current dietary guidelines recommend that children transition from whole-fat cow's milk to low-fat (1%) cow's milk beginning at 2 years of age. However, this recommendation was not established using rigorous randomized controlled trial evidence in toddlers. Because federal nutrition assistance programs and institutions that receive federal funding—including...

Hannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health

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

School recess is an evidence-backed approach to increase school-based opportunities for students to play, accrue necessary physical activity, and socialize with peers, to the benefit of their physical, academic, and socioemotional health. As such, the Centers for Disease Control recommend at least 20 min of daily recess in...

William Thompson - Professor, Psychology

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

The Computational Cognitive Science lab (https://ccs-ucb.github.io) conducts experimental studies of human intelligence, focusing on reasoning and learning in multi-agent contexts. We have new and ongoing studies surrounding e.g. discovery, problem-solving, and belief formation during interactions between human participants and AI systems. Our studies leverage web technologies...

William Thompson - Professor, Psychology

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

The computational cognitive science lab (ccs-ucb.github.io) studies how knowledge is transmitted from one agent to another, among humans and machines. This project examines the transmission of knowledge from one model to another using open source LLMs. You will learn about methods for on-policy distillation (e.g. https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog...

Eos Trinidad - Professor , Education

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

This research will help develop a national database of K-12 state mid-level education agencies across the US. It aims to inform new research on the role of mid-level agencies in supporting education across different states...

Eleanor Tubman - Professor , Nuclear Engineering

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

Fusion is an ongoing effort worldwide to produce a ‘clean’ energy resource. There are several approaches to achieving net energy gain that are being utilised. Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a method of achieving fusion energy, typically using lasers to implode and heat the fuel. However, there are, and will...

Kimberly Vinall - Executive Director, Berkeley Language Center

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

Academic publication is an essential part of the research process, a way for researchers to communicate and disseminate their contributions to a wider audience. This URAP project aims to mentor undergraduates in academic writing and publication through support of the L2Journal, an open-access, peer reviewed academic journal focused on...

Steven Vogel - Professor, Political Science

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

I will be focusing primarily on the GEN Global Citizens Forum project in Fall 2026. The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) in Tokyo and its partners around the world have launched the GEN Forum to inspire the younger generation and to address the most pressing social, economic, and environmental...

Sophie Volpp - Professor, Comparative Literature

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

I am engaged in two projects. One concerns attempts to preserve China's cultural heritage by saving rare books from capture by the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese war. Since English-language sources are somewhat limited, reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is a big plus. The undergraduate students work...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

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

Berkeley's Folklore Program is working with Arhoolie Foundation on several projects involving their extraordinary archive of recordings, photographs, films, and manuscripts related to vernacular music and the vernacular arts broadly conceived. Arhoolie Foundation nonprofit organization rooted in the life's work of its founder Chris Strachwitz and his acclaimed independent label...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

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

The Berkeley Anthropology Department has received a donated collection of over three hundred rave flyers documenting the electronic dance music scene in San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s, now being digitally archived through the Folklore library. The donated collection includes handbills...

Julia Walsh - Professor Emerita, Public Health

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

California’s climate policies are models for many other states and internationally. We will advocate and lobby and for important pending Climate legislation in the CA Assembly and Senate. We will assess the implications, status and progress of the legislation and requirements for passage. We will research the health impact of...

Peter Washington - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

We are seeking a highly motivated student to join a project to develop an LLM-powered chatbot for personalized vaping cessation counseling for young people. This project involves designing, implementing, and evaluating a secure, cloud-based conversational system that integrates large language models (LLMs) with structured prompting, safety guardrails (via...

Peter Washington - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Project 1=== Our interdisciplinary research team is developing the next generation of GAME PROs, a digital health platform designed to help people with cancer regularly monitor symptoms, understand changes in their health, and communicate more effectively with their healthcare teams. GAME PROs builds upon the recently completed GAME Pilot Study...

Peter Washington - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

We are looking for a motivated undergraduate or graduate student interested in working on a research project at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), AI, data visualization, and digital mental health. The student will contribute to the design and evaluation of personalized visualizations that help individuals better understand and...

Peter Washington - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The UCSF TECH Lab (https://techlab.ucsf.edu/) led by Dr. Peter Washington at UCSF (DoC-IT, with appointments in the CPH and BMI PhD programs) is looking for a student researcher working as a full-stack web developer (Django for backend, Tailwind for frontend) to contribute to build features on a...

Linda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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

The Registration division oversees and manages collection object documentation. URAP students will assist in the transformation of once hidden collections to fully accessible collections through: · Processing New Collections Acquisitions · Research and Cataloging of Existing Collections · Archives Inventory and Finding Aid Creation: Research Documentation...

Christine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry

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

There is increasing interest in the role of sunlight and light exposure in the development of myopia. In this project, we are using a wearable light sensor/activity monitor (Actiwatch), for human subjects. The sensor will record the intensity of light subjects are exposed to, and will allow us to...

Martha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science

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

In an era of democratic instability and electoral autocracy, understanding when and where viable opposition parties emerge is critical. This question is particularly pressing in sub-Saharan Africa, where opposition parties vary in their capacity to contest elections. This project seeks to a) develop a descriptive dataset of the region’s...

Michelle Wilkerson - Professor, Education

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

While computer science (CS) has historically been framed as technical and value-free, emerging scholarship in the Learning Sciences and Science & Technology Studies (STS) highlights how computing intersects deeply with power, politics, and social equity. In response, frameworks have emerged to encourage educators and students to interrogate the societal and...