Joel C. Corbo

Building classroom and organizational structure around positive cultural values

The Compass Project is a self-formed group of graduate and undergraduate students in the physical sciences at UC Berkeley. Our goals are to improve undergraduate physics education, provide opportunities for professional development, and increase retention of students-especially those from populations typically underrepresented in the physical sciences. Compass fosters a diverse, collaborative student community by providing a wide range of services, including a summer program and fall/spring seminar courses. We describe Compasss cultural values, discuss how community members are introduced to and help shape those values, and demonstrate how a single set of values informs the structure of both our classroom and organization. We emphasize that all members of the Compass community participate in, and benefit from, our cultural values, regardless of status as student, teacher, or otherwise.

Number-squeezed and fragmented states of strongly interacting bosons in a double well

Joel C. Corbo,1, 2, ∗ Jonathan L. DuBois,3 and K. Birgitta Whaley1, 4 Berkeley Center for Quantum Information and Computation, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Lawrence Livermore National Lab, 7000 East Ave, L-415, Livermore, CA 94550, USA Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (Dated: April 9, 2014)Author(s): Corbo, JC; Dubois, JL; Whaley, KB | Abstract:

An Analysis of Community Formation in Faculty Online Learning Communities

Alexandra Lau,1 Melissa H. Dancy,1 Joel C. Corbo,2 Charles Henderson,3 and Andy Rundquist4 Department of Physics, University of Colorado, 390 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 Center for STEM Learning, University of Colorado, 393 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Department of Physics, Hamline University, MS-C1913, 1536 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104