Sanjana Manjeshwar

This summer, I will be continuing my work as a research assistant at the Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI), a think tank at Berkeley Law. I will be editing research papers on various topics, including class action lawsuits, legal remedies for racial trauma, and the role of lawyers in domestic violence cases. In addition, I will conduct legal research for an amicus brief on arbitration issues and help develop an edited collection on civil rights litigation against police officers who use excessive force. Finally, the CJRI is hoping to receive […]

Michael Alexander

Emily Robbins

Housing insecurity plays a central role in the connection between poverty and poor health. This project examines how housing assistance programs are provided through the healthcare and social safety net to understand how people are stratified for housing and how health and illness shape experiences of housing insecurity and poverty. This summer, we will continue conducting qualitative data collection and analysis, drawing from observations and in-depth interviews with individuals and families experiencing housing insecurity, frontline housing workers, housing advocates, and healthcare providers in Alameda County.

Snow Guilfoyle

Nicole Carrasco

This summer, I will be continuing my research on the project – Making Publics in Public Health. The goal is to intertwine my interest in public health and law. The research concerns how information about health and disease is created, how it is provided to the news media, how this information reaches general audiences, and how people respond to it. I am particularly interested in asking about shifts in legal consciousness during the pandemic, how laypeople people enact the law in their daily lives, and the use of written law […]

Namrata Vedagarbha

The olfactory system of insects is specialized in detecting a vast array of volatile compounds. Some compounds, like mustard oils (isothiocyanates, ITCs) present in cabbage, broccoli, wasabi, and other Brassicales, are toxic to many insects. However, a lineage of drosophilid flies in the genus Scaptomyza has olfactory receptors tuned to ITCs and has evolved to use these plants as hosts. More recently, researchers in the Whiteman lab have discovered that Drosophila melanogaster, a microbe-feeder, also has olfactory receptors responsive to ITCs, possibly mediating the flies’ olfactory repellence to the compounds. […]

Ella Grosel

This summer, I will be continuing my work in the Social Origins Lab helping to conduct two studies that investigate whether children prefer to do something on their own or seek help if they have both options. In our first study, we have a room with two identical machines behind curtains, and we present children with a tool which they can insert into the machine themselves to get a prize when one of the curtains is open, or give to a helper to insert for them to get a prize […]

Hilary Lu

Impaired stereoscopic depth perception is one of the most common deficits associated with degraded vision. This summer, I will be assisting my research mentor in developing a stereo training program using Oculus Quest 2 and Vivid Vision to extensively track how human subjects with amblyopia improve in stereo vision. I am excited to conduct the 3D-recovery training, administer psychophysical tests, and analyze data. Our goal is to also understand whether amblyopes’ poor stereopsis is due to reduced disparity gain or increased internal disparity noise.

Amari Turner

Black Lives at Cal (BLAC) is a multi-year initiative to celebrate, defend, and advance the legacy of Black people at the University of California, Berkeley, since the university’s founding in 1868. This summer’s work will involve growing our inventory of archival sources which may involve oral history interviews. We will also be working on the website our group created and adding more information to it that contributes as a whole to the website’s design.

Samantha Kelly

A major upgrade of the ATLAS detector is planned, with installation in the second half of this decade. The powerboards, a component of the planned replacement of the ATLAS tracking detector, are printed circuit boards built from a flexible polyamide core and loaded with SMDs and bare die components and chips. Together with Zhicai Zhang, we have developed a massive test crate that is able to perform electrical and thermal tests on 200 powerboards at one time. This summer, we will further develop the interlock system for this crate, and […]