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Jeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS “This apprenticeship has been the highlight of my time at Berkeley. It has given me a chance to help patients in difficult medical situations, and as a pre-health undergraduate, this is important to me.” “It is a great opportunity to get clinical experience and work with like...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyMatteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The project is part of a large agenda trying to understand how banks compete in an evolving environment affected by changing demographics and the entry non fintech lenders and bigtech firms. One project is studying the heterogeneous preferences of borrowers and savers to explain the lengthening of the financial intermediation...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesSabrina Boyce - Professor, Public Health
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Sexual and dating violence (SV/DV) is pervasive in communities and disproportionately impacts marginalized populations. SV/DV during adolescence (ages 13-17) has immediate and long-term health consequences, including increased risk of future victimization, poor sexual and reproductive health, substance use, depressive symptoms and suicidality, across the life course. Currently...
Social SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Paid family leave benefits the well-being of workers and their family members (including newborns, adopted children, and ill family members) by offering partially or fully compensated time away from work for family caregiving. However, the U.S. is exceptional because it is the only wealthy country without a national-level...
Social SciencesCarla Cicero - Emeritus Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a major repository for surveyed and/or salvaged North American wildlife, especially California species. We typical have several thousand frozen carcasses at any given time, with a large diversity of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds. These carcasses come from many sources -- wildlife rescue...
Biological & Health SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMark Courtney - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
About Us: The Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub; https://ccwip.berkeley.edu/TAY/) 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...
Social SciencesMoisés Expósito-Alonso - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The global climate is changing at an unprecedented rate due to human activities, threatening global biodiversity and food security. A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is: What enables or limits species to rapidly evolve and adapt to changing climates? In this project, we will use natural ecotypes of Arabidopsis to...
Biological & Health SciencesVenkatesan Guruswami - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Computer-assisted and automated theorem proving has been a longstanding goal of artificial intelligence and has gained increasing importance in recent years. Despite notable advancements, such as AlphaProof from Google DeepMind, which achieves silver-medal standard in solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems, challenges persist in obtaining machine-verifiable theorems and...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As shown in our recent publication (Hirose*, Payumo*, et al Science 2019), we aim to understand the divergent regenerative potential in ontogeny and phylogeny. For example, heart regeneration is remarkably robust in adult zebrafish and newborn mice while very limited in adult mammals. We use the heart as a model...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We aim to study whether there are extreme physiological phenomena (1) in individuals with healthy low heart rates (less than 45 beats/min) and (2) among identical twins that can not be explained by any known biological mechanism. We will exploit classical and non-classical model systems to explore these...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Current studies of mouse heart regeneration are largely limited to postmortem analysis of heart tissue to explore cellular activity and molecular mechanisms. We aim to combine a novel imaging window system designed and surgically implanted on the mouse chest by the Huang Lab at UCSF with the free-space angular...
Biological & Health SciencesAndrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the neuroendocrine, immunological, and psychiatric pathways underlying the consequences of trauma exposure in adults living in South Africa. Data come from two separate studies: the first on intergenerational trauma from apartheid in a longitudinal birth cohort study in Soweto, South Africa and the second on long COVID...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Most poor women face challenges with menstrual hygiene. The results are staying home during one's period (limiting work and school), fear of leaks, infections, and high cost of single-use products. We are running two trials in Tamil Nadu and in Karnataka on distribution of menstrual cups. It would be...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Roughly 1.5 billion poor people receive healthcare from roughly 1.5 million community health workers (CHWs). CHWs are typically women with limited education and minimal training. ChatGPT, GPT4 and their peers should be able to provide high-quality support, especially if trained on the local clinical guidelines. If you are selected...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMeng C. Lin - Professor, Optometry
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Scleral lenses, unlike standard contact lenses, are large-diameter rigid lenses that rest on the sclera (white part of the eye) and create a tear-filled reservoir to hydrate the anterior ocular surface. They are primarily recommended for patients with corneal irregularities and dry eye diseases due to their capability...
Biological & Health SciencesLúcia Lohmann, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Herbaria are museums that house preserved plant collections for scientific purposes. For centuries, plant specimens have been collected from various locations, labeled with essential data, and stored for use by scientists and researchers worldwide. Properly curated plant specimens can last indefinitely, providing data for generations of scholars to study taxonomy...
Biological & Health SciencesLúcia Lohmann, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The spirit collection in the University and Jepson Herbaria houses thousands of plant and algae specimens preserved in alcohol. This preservation method is essential for material that cannot be dried or pressed, as it retains their three-dimensional structure and allows for detailed examination without the distortion or shrinkage that...
Biological & Health SciencesCynthia Looy - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Pollinators are essential components of a healthy ecosystem and provide vital benefits to both plants and animals. The student-run pollinator garden around the Valley Life Science Building (VLSB) supports native arthropods (e.g. insects and spiders) and other wildlife and is an environmental education resource for students. We plan to...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesWilliam Martinez - Professor , UC San Francisco
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The present study is a randomized control trial to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of a school-based group prevention program (Fuerte) in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Public Schools. Fuerte targets newcomer Latinx immigrant youth (five years or less post arrival in the U.S.) who are at risk...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDana Miller-Cotto, Education
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research is a mixed methods research project which aims to understand the predictors of executive function, a cognitive resource that controls our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, and its performance in early schooling. In particular, we study the 1) role of how context may play a role in executive function...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever scored lower on a test than you expected, lost a competition to a competitor you thought you would trounce, been certain about a fact only to have Google prove you incorrect? People are frequently overconfident. Understanding overconfidence can help us become more accurate about our self-perceptions...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMoira O'Neill - Professor, Institute for Urban and Regional Development
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
California's housing crisis is well known, and scholars attribute this crisis largely to the inadequate supply of housing across multiple income levels. This study explores the relationship between local and state land use regulation and housing supply. We will examine approval processes in selected jurisdictions to understand...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyVictror Ortega Jimenez - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Marangoni effect is used by water striders (Veliidae) and rove beetles (Staphylinidae) to induce an ultrafast escape response against inter- or intra-specific predators. However, it is unclear if the surfactants secreted by these insects, that reduce surface tension of water, can also affect predator’s locomotion during the chasing...
Biological & Health SciencesJ. Theodore (Ted) Peña - Professor, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is concerned with the classification, quanitification, analysis and publication of the ca. 20 tons of ancient Roman pottery recovered in the Palatine East Excavations in downtown Rome. The material, which dates to the period ca. AD 50 – AD 450, comes from all over the Mediterranean world, and provides...
Arts & HumanitiesValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Extended deadline 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...
Social SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Bone crushing dogs were a diverse and successful subfamily of canids that thrived throughout North America for nearly 30 million years. As bone crushing dogs evolved they show convergent features with hyaenas in their cranial anatomy (i.e. a large sagittal crest and domed forehead to dissipate stress). While the skull...
Biological & Health SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Studying vertebral measurements and trabeculae's shape and orientation can provide a more comprehensive understanding of how rodent groups adapted to their specific environments and lifestyles. Quantifying the gross morphological variation of each rodent group through vertebral measurements can provide information about weight-bearing capacity, stability, strength, mobility, and flexibility. Additionally...
Biological & Health SciencesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We will be collecting and annotating historical documents, photographs, songs, and videos related to the history, culture, and literature of New Orleans...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesGuo Xu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Extended deadline Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project studies the time use of presidents by digitizing and leveraging the presidential diaries (1900-2017). The presidential diaries contain hourly information about activities and meetings of presidents throughout history, allowing us to take an unusually close look at how different political leaders allocate their time and attention...
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