Scholar Profile

Joel Corbo

Higher Education

Biography

Joel is a Senior Research Associate in the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work focuses on implementing and studying mechanisms for improving undergraduate education in STEM departments, with a particular focus on organizational/institutional change, equity and inclusion, and community. As a graduate student, he helped to found and lead the Berkeley Compass Project, a student-run organization dedicated to supporting students from marginalized groups in physics, and he co-leads the Access Network, a national network of student-centered equity programs inspired by Compass.

Before coming to CU, Joel received a bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. As a member of the Whaley group at Berkeley, he studied ultracold atomic gases using quantum Monte Carlo simulation techniques.

High school:  Regis High School

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