Our Team
| CAPS Project Director: | |
 | Janet Yowell is the CAPS Project Director in the Center for STEM Learning at CU Boulder. She has worked as a comparative risk Research Associate on EPA-funded projects, 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 most recently as the Associate Director for K-12 Engineering Education with the ITL Program in the College of Engineering & 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. Email |
| CAPS Project PIs: | |
 | Dr. Sarah Miller, CAPS INCLUDES Grant PI, is the Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence in the College of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. As Assistant Dean, Dr. Miller also provides leadership for the Broadening Opportunity for Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center, overseeing efforts to broaden participation, retention and graduation in engineering. She has worked at the National Science Foundation, and served as an Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, both in Washington, DC. Email |
 | Dr. Noah Finkelstein, CAPS INCLUDES Grant Co-PI, is the Director of the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Finkelstein is also a Professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, a President’s Teaching Scholar, and a Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador. He also served as the Educational Research Consultant/Science Content Advisor for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. In addition to teaching students to become interested in and understand physics, Dr. Finkelstein is actively engaged in research to transform STEM education through various national and local education efforts. Email |
 | Anne-Barrie Hunter, CAPS INCLUDES Grant Co-PI, is a Program Manager for the Center for STEM Learning and the Co-Director and a Research Associate with Ethnography & Evaluation Research at CU Boulder. For more than 25 years, she has been conducting qualitative research and evaluation of STEM initiatives seeking to improve college science education. Her 1997 work on the research study by Seymour and Hewitt produced Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences has led to her current project after 20 years of follow-up research: Talking about Leaving Revisited, with a fall 2017 release date. The present study explores contemporary factors affecting students’ decisions to stay in or switch from STEM majors. Email |
 | Heidi Loshbaugh, CAPS INCLUDES Grant Co-PI, is the Dean of the Math & Science Center at the Community Collge of Denver. Prior to Dr. Loshbaugh joining CCD, she was a Research Associate at CU Boulder, and formerly Special Advisor to the President and an Assistant Research Professor at Colorado School of Mines in Golden. Email |
 | Sean Shaheen, CAPS INCLUDES Grant Co-PI, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair for Education for the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at CU Boulder. Email |
| Other CAPS Project Contributors: | |
 | Lisa Corwin, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder. Dr. Corwin served as the STEM Transfer Student Coordinator at the UNC-Chapel Hill, an Instructor at American River Community College, as well as reserach and teaching positions at UC-Davis. Additionally, Dr. Corwin completed a Post-Doc with the University of Georgia and UT-Austin. Email |
 | Kristin Lopez, Associate Director, Colorado Diversity Initiative, and Lecturer, Department of Integrative Physiology, CU Boulder, where she has also served as the Preparaprofessional Health Advisor. Prior to her joining the faculty at CU Boulder, Dr. Lopez was the Managing Editor for Physiology and Biochemical Zoology and an Assitant Editor for American Zoologist. Email |
| Barbara Kraus, Coordinator, SMART Program, Colorado Diversity Initiative, CU Boulder. Email |
 | Chris Anderson, Director of Student Services & Transfer Pathways, College of Engineering & Applied Science, CU Boulder. Chris has served as a mechanical engineering Undergraduate Advisor at CU Boulder, an Advisor at the Community College of Denver, an Instructor and Advisor at the University of Kansas, as well as an Admissions Counselor at Arapahoe Community College. Chris is the lead for Community College students wishing to transfer into the College of Engineering & Applied Science. Email |