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Live webcast: Nobel Laureate in Physics on new ways to teach college science

Carl Wieman, professor of physics and of education, is scheduled to speak Friday, Oct. 24, from 3:15 – 4:15 p.m. as part of the weekend reunion activities. His talk, "Taking a scientific approach to undergraduate science and engineering education," will be live-streamed for public viewing. The URL to watch is http://stanford.io/1ssrP1Z.

Carl Wieman
Carl Wieman

Science and engineering has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years while education in these subjects, guided primarily by tradition and superstition, has remained largely medieval. New research on learning, particularly in the areas of science and engineering, is providing insights and methods for teaching all students much more effectively.

Carl Wieman, PhD ’77, joined Stanford in 2013 as a professor in both the Department of Physics and the Graduate School of Education. He has received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his atomic physics research (creation of the first Bose-Einstein condensation) and has been selected as Carnegie US University Professor of the Year for his research and contributions to science education. He has carried out studies of more effective techniques and technology for teaching science, particularly physics, at the undergraduate level. He was the founding Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education and served as Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy 2010-12. 

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