Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
Member, HLC Board of Trustees
Dr. Noah Finkelstein has taught in the Physics Department at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2003 and became a full professor in 2012. He serves as a director of the Physics Education Research (PER) group at Colorado, one of the largest research groups in physics education in the country. Dr. Finkelstein is also a director of the national-scale Center for STEM Learning, which has become one of eight national demonstration sites for the Association of American Universities’ STEM Education Initiative. During an NSF-supported postdoc, he formally entered the field of physics education research, through joint appointments at the UC San Diego’s Lab of Comparative Human Cognition, and UC Berkeley’s Group in Science and Mathematics Education. He has also served as a Research Consultant at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a Research Associate and Instructor at Princeton University. Dr. Finkelstein received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Yale University and his Ph.D. for work in Applied Physics from Princeton University.
Proposed Criteria for Accreditation
Saturday, April 13, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT