Janet Yowell
CAPS Project Director
Center for STEM Learning

University of Colorado Boulder
Center for STEM Learning
2000 Colorado Avenue
393 UCB
Boulder, Colorado.  80309-0393

 

Janet Yowell is the Director of Strategic Community College STEM Initiatives for the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Boulder. She is currently the Project Director for two NSF INCLUDES grants: Creating Academic Pathways in STEM (CAPS) and STEM Core Expansion (an NSF INCLUDES Alliance grant), as well as one NSF RET grant (Authentic Research Experiences for Teachers (ARETe), focused on research opportunties for community college teachers. She has worked as a Research Associate for an EPA-funded comparative risk project, as an environmental assessment Associate for the City & County of Denver, led the community outreach program for Environment 2000, a pollution prevention initiative for the State of Colorado, and more recently as the Associate Director for K-12 Engineering Education with the ITL Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Boulder. She also has STEM curriculum development experience and served as a copyeditor for TeachEngineering.org as well as editor for several published works.