Nobelist, physicist Wieman to lecture at CIRTL forum

Nobelist Carl E. Wieman, a University of Colorado physicist, will be the distinguished lecturer for the first forum of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning. Wieman used his Nobel Prize money to create the award-winning Physics 2000 Web site, http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/.

Famous for his explorations of atoms cooled to just 100 millionths of a degree above absolute zero and the resulting creation of a new form of matter, Wieman will lecture on the interfaces of teaching and research at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the Wisconsin Union Theater.

The forum, to be held at the Edgewater Hotel, includes talks by Joseph Bordogna, deputy director of the National Science Foundation; Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; and Orlando Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School.

CIRTL, begun this year with support from NSF, is an initiative to develop a national faculty in science, technology, engineering and math committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching and learning for diverse student audiences.