URAP

Ali Rahmati - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory

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

Solar flares are large sudden eruptions on the Sun's surface, resulting in the release of energy in the form of particle acceleration (electrons and ions) and electromagnetic radiation (photons). The focus of this work is on Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) and X-ray photons produced by solar flares. These photons travel...

Kamalini Ranasinghe - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The goal of this project is to investigate the associations between anormal protein depositions in the brain and how these may change the neuronal firing in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We use magnetoencephalography (MEG) electroencephalography (EEG) to record the activity of neurons and molecular imaging to quantify amyloid...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project examines the experiences of Qawwali musicians in India through open-ended interviews. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily looking for trends and creating categories from the data. So far we have identified broad effects of gender and identity on satisfaction and success...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

Virtual Coworking platforms (e.g. CoFocus, Focusmate, Flow Club, Groove) have experienced a surge in popularity during the pandemic, especially among students, remote workers, and entrepreneurs/solopreneuers. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily seeking additional employment and demographic information of virtual coworkers from their LinkedIn...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project examines gender differences in productivity and engagement in remote work settings. Conducted with software testers in India, the experiment involves a comprehensive analysis of work patterns, interruptions, and productivity metrics in both remote and in-person settings. The study employs multiple data collection methods, including video observations, surveys...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This is a science-of-science / computational social science project examining how different empirical methods are used—and what impact they have—in papers published in leading management journals...

Eva Raphael - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Henry Ravenhall - Professor, French

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

This research project, supported by the France-Berkeley Fund, studies how gender relations are represented visually within medieval household settings. We are looking at objects, paintings, and books, made between 1100 and 1500, that engage with gender norms (often by flipping or troubling them). Apprentices will be responsible for carrying...

Onja Razafindratsima - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Seed dispersal by frugivores depends on behavior such as fruit preference, movement, gut retention, and habitat use. Primates play a critical role as seed dispersers, but in degraded or fragmented landscapes, reduced food availability and restricted movement may limit their effectiveness. Black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra), native to Southeast Mexico...

Onja Razafindratsima - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Forest regeneration and seed dispersal are essential ecological processes for maintaining biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and carbon sequestration. However, these processes are being threatened by agricultural expansion and defaunation. As a first step toward understanding the importance of animal seed dispersers in forest regeneration, this project aims to assess the diversity...

Onja Razafindratsima - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Our research group is interested in addressing various questions related to primate ecology. We have gathered data in the field for over two years about different aspects of movement and foraging ecology of three sympatric lemur species in the rainforests of Madagascar. Students will have the opportunity to develop specific...

Andrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy

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

This project explores the relationship between the many laws that regulate work in the United States, social movement activism, and changing American political economic commitments. Specifically, it investigates line-drawing in popular discourse about the meaning of work and how best to regulate it from the 1950s through today, during...

Carolina Reid - Professor, City and Regional Planning

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

An equitable transition to low-carbon homes in California requires implementation approaches that effectively reach underserved communities, including low-income and communities of colors. This study, conducted in partnership with community-based and advocacy organizations across California, is designed to increase understanding of how different governance/program structures are undertaking...

Carolina Reid - Professor, City and Regional Planning

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This research project aims to illuminate emergent housing struggles in small-town Ontario, Canada, primarily through the lens of novel tent encampment formation. In summer 2022, tent encampments emerged in parks in a not-quite urban, not-quite rural town peripheral to Toronto. In April 2023, the municipal government closed...

Carolina Reid - Professor, City and Regional Planning

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

The Bay Area Thriving Families (BATF) Project is a mixed-methods research study that examines whether providing modest, short-term cash payments to families nearing the end of their Rapid Rehousing (RRH) assistance can support more stable housing outcomes and improved financial well-being. Families exiting RRH often face a...

Carolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology

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

Plants produce many toxic compounds as defense against insect herbivory. Many insects have therefore developed adaptations to counteract the negative effects of toxic compounds. Indeed, some species evolved mechanisms that allow them to use these toxic hosts as private niches, avoiding competition with other insects. In this project the student...

Hunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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: Current Term Now Closed     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: Current Term Now Closed     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: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health

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

Earth rotation was an evolutionary pressure for organisms to evolve circadian rhythms in order to be able to anticipate the rhythmic day/night cycles. These circadian clocks regulate physiological properties such as sleep, immune response and metabolism. Our lab studies circadian clocks in parasites. This project focus on performing bioinformatics...

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Matt Roberts - Professional Researcher, Center for the Built Environment

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

The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) is conducting a research project to supportnpolicy development in California for decarbonizing material consumption related to new construction of buildings. The project aims to develop a series of Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) for key materials (included but not limited to concrete, steel...

George Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

This project is focused on the residential urban gardens of the East Bay and how those gardens impact butterfly communities with a focus on the Western Monarch butterfly. The project covers topics of native and non-native plants, invasive arthropods, urban gardens, and changes in species interactions. This project is...

George Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

In our lab, we are interested in the ecology and evolutionary history of arthropod (insect and spider) species. We mostly study arthropods from Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific, but also species in California and elsewhere. Some are native species, some are recent invasive species, and some are introduced...

George Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Are you interested in science news and social media? In our lab, we study the ecological and evolutionary history of arthropod (insect and spider) species--the little things that run the earth. We mostly study arthropods from Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific. Outreach and communication are as critical...

George Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Biodiversity surveys often accumulate many many insect and spider specimens, but it is usually hard to figure out what the species actually are. Many species are not yet described and many are found in an area for the first time, or the species are not yet in DNA databases. In...

Hector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health

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

Quality of care disparities between patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and patients proficient in English have been well documented. Language barriers between patients and providers can lead to medical errors, poor chronic condition management, and undue difficulty accessing care. LEP status is highly correlated with other risk factors for...

Hector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health

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

Quality of care disparities between patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and patients proficient in English have been well documented. Language barriers between patients and providers can lead to medical errors, poor chronic condition management, and undue difficulty accessing care. LEP status is highly correlated with other risk factors for...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

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

Gram-positive microbes are important members of host-associated and environmental microbiomes, yet many remain genetically intractable. This project will implement novel microbiome editing tools by developing modular plasmids that can either replicate or integrate into the genomes of these difficult-to-engineer bacteria, and by establishing workflows for introducing...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

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

Aquatic ecosystems transport more than just water, they also move energy, nutrients, and pollutants to adjacent terrestrial ecosystems. One of the key connections between aquatic and terrestrial systems is the movement of biomass via emergent aquatic insects (think mosquitoes): insects which start their life as aquatic larvae, metamorphose, then emerge...

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

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

Sacramento Pikeminnow are a large and long-lived predatory fish endemic to California and native to many rivers and streams in our area. One place they are not native to, however, is the Eel River Basin, a major river system to our north. Since their 1980 introduction, these fish have...

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

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 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...

Arjun Rustagi - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

I am a scientist and infectious diseases physician with a broad interest in human respiratory infections, particularly the factors that drive different outcomes. My laboratory studies the immune response to viruses and fungi with an emphasis on human lung model systems. Influenza, SARS-CoV-2, TB, and the pathogenic fungus...

Arjun Rustagi - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

I am a scientist and infectious diseases physician with a broad interest in human respiratory infections, particularly the factors that drive different outcomes. My laboratory studies the immune response to viruses and fungi with an emphasis on human lung model systems. Influenza, SARS-CoV-2, TB, and the pathogenic fungus...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Location: On Campus

A remarkable development in the recent years has been the demonstration that a nanoscale magnet can be switched by a spin-polarized current, without having to apply any external magnetic field. It is a fascinating phenomenon from two different perspectives. Firstly, this effect is purely mediated by quantum mechanics, but...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     

It is widely believed that the rate of change in current in conventional MOSFETs cannot be decreased below 60 mV/decade. This means that to change every decade of current one must apply at least 60 mV. As a result, the power supply voltage in modern MOSFETs cannot be reduced...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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

Artificial Intelligence is becoming prevalent in many applications. In this research effort we are investigating new ideas of learning and inference. In addition to develop fundamental understanding of the algorithms, we are also designing novel hardware solutions that are specifically suitable for these Learning Machines, going beyond mere implementation of...

Chiara Salemi - Professor, Physics

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

Low-temperature experiments—such as many axion dark matter searches, quantum computing, and condensed matter studies—require an exceptional understanding of the materials used in and around the experiment. Insights into the behavior of materials at such low temperatures are necessary to understand signal backgrounds, ensuring effective thermalization, and minimizing...

Chiara Salemi - Professor, Physics

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

Axions are a highly motivated candidate to be the dark matter. The signal profile in a detector depends on the properties of the Milky Way's dark matter halo properties. Certain halo models predict signal shapes that are challenging to differentiate from noise, and recent work has indicated that machine learning...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

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

This project aims to format translated and transcribed linguistic interviews collected during fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire, with the goal of archiving the interviews and their transcriptions and translations for use by other researchers as well as community members. The language of study for this project is Guébie, an endangered Kru...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     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...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

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

This project involves reformatting and editing a descriptive grammar of the endangered Guébie (Kru) language of Côte d'Ivoire, which has been documented, described, and analyzed by Professor Hannah Sande and her students over the past 12 years. Professor Sande is finishing up a grammar that presents the first description of...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

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

This project aims to document, describe, analyze, write up, and possibly present and publish about the morphophonology of plural marking in Lobi, a Gur language spoken in West Africa. Plural morphology in Lobi is likely historically related to a noun class system, though synchronically there are no longer noun-class...

Raluca Scarlat - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

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

Actinide-containing fluoride and chloride molten salts are utilized as fuel salts in molten salt reactors (MSR’s) and have applications in pyrochemical-processing for fuel recovery. However, the thermophysical property data of these salts such as melting point, viscosity, and density and the effects on these properties of varying levels...

Christopher Schell - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

The Schell Lab integrates animal behavior, physiology, and genetics to study how carnivores adapt to the challenges and opportunities of life in cities. This project focuses on raccoons in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region that provides an ideal natural laboratory for examining how wildlife persists in densely populated...