Emeriti/ae together with undergraduate students have played a crucial role in researching and documenting women's contributions to many disciplines and departments. These projects -- part of the 150 Years of Women at UC Berkeley Initiative -- were offered through the URAP Program.
The projects listed below have been supported by the Academy. For a complete list of 150W URAP projects, please visit the Initiative's "Undergraduate Research"-page.
The Prytanean Women's Honors Society was founded at UC Berkeley in September 1901. It is the oldest women's honor society in the U.S. Learn more by reading undergraduate research apprentice Yueyi Che's paper "Prytanean." (PDF file)(link is external)
URAP Mentor: Sheila Humphreys, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Director Emerita of Diversity
URAP Students: Yueyi Che
URAP Mentor: Judith P. Klinman, Professor of the Graduate School, Chancellor's Professor, Chemistry
URAP Students: Lizy Choi, Flora Fan, Caitlin Iswono, Pranathi Santosh
URAP Mentor: Zinmay Renee Sung, Professor Emerita, Plant and Microbial Biology
URAP Students: Yuan Chen, Helen Liu, Manaal Shaad, Elizabeth Lemons
URAP Mentor: Meg Conkey, Professor Emerita, Anthropology
URAP Students: Desi Carrasco, Maddy Chen, Benjaminn Coleman, Karah Giesecke, Hanna Hitchcock , Devanshi Rathi, Sierra Richey, Susie Ropp, Catherine Roxas
The English Department has been the home of many of the university’s most acclaimed women: in 1905, the first female faculty member (Lucy Sprague) was appointed in English, and in 2017, a member of the English Department faculty (Carol Christ) became the first female Chancellor.
URAP Mentor: Catherine Gallagher, Professor Emerita, English
URAP Students: Emma Campbell, Julia Cunningham, Francesca Hodges, Kamila Kaminska-Palarczyk, Defne Karabatur, Kahyun Koh, Lucia Salazar, Arina Stadnyk, Natalie Stone, Amanda Styles, Anya Vertanessian
URAP Mentor: Janet King, Professor Emerita, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
URAP Student: Sitong Wang
URAP Mentor: Janet King, Professor Emerita, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
URAP Student: Wendy Hu
URAP Mentor: John Swartzberg, Clinical Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health
URAP Students: Brittany Rodriguez, Anthea Li, Amy Oh, and Raman Bains