Carl Wieman

2018 Forum Annual Meeting speaker, Stanford University

Carl Wieman has been a professor of physics at the graduate school of education at Stanford University since 2013, and before that was at the Universities of Colorado and British Columbia and was the associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Wieman has carried out extensive research in both atomic physics (Nobel Prize 2001) and undergraduate science education (Carnegie Professor of the Year 2004), including institutional change in teaching. Wieman received his B.S. from MIT and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Wieman recently published a book on large scale change, Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative.