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Videos<\/strong>: \u00a0Watch an interview<\/a> of Carl Wieman conducted by Physics Department Head Heidi Schellman.\u00a0If you missed the lecture, you can watch it here<\/a>. Videos shot and produced by TJ Neathery, an MFA student in OSU’s School of Writing, Literature and Film.<\/p>\n

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The College of Science welcomed\u00a0Carl Wieman<\/a>, a\u00a0Stanford physicist and Corvallis native, as its Fall Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Wieman discussed \u201cTaking a scientific approach to learning and teaching science (and most other subjects)\u201d November 21, 2016, at OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center in the Austin Auditorium. A reception honoring Dr. Wieman preceded the lecture.<\/p>\n

Wieman holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He has conducted extensive experimental research in both atomic physics and science education at the university level.<\/p>\n

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Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate in Physics and Corvallis native<\/p><\/div>\n

Wieman has received numerous awards recognizing his work in atomic physics, including the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001<\/a> for the first creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate.\u00a0 He has also studied student learning and problem solving and the comparative effectiveness of different methods for teaching science.<\/p>\n

Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval, according to Wieman. He presented research on how people learn that is now revealing much more effective ways to teach and evaluate learning than what is currently used in the traditional science class. This approach makes much more use in the classroom of the instructor\u2019s expertise, and, contends Wieman, it also shows students how to learn most effectively.<\/p>\n

In his talk, Wieman\u00a0discussed research that is setting the stage for a new approach to teaching and learning that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. He also covered more meaningful and effective ways to measure the quality of teaching.<\/p>\n

Although the talk focused on undergraduate science and engineering teaching, where the data is the most compelling, Wieman believes that the underlying principles come from studies of the general development of expertise and apply widely.<\/p>\n

Wieman\u2019s education work has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Carnegie Foundation University Professor of the Year in 2004, the Oersted Medal for physics education, and a lifetime achievement award from the National Science Teachers Association.<\/p>\n

Wieman served as founding chair of the Board of Science Education of the National Academy of Sciences and was the founder of PhET<\/a>, which provides online interactive simulations that are used 100 million times per year to learn science. He directed the science education initiatives at the Universities of Colorado and British Columbia that carried out large-scale change in teaching methods across university science departments. Wieman served as Associate Director for Science<\/a> in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House from 2010-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Wieman, a Stanford physicist Nobel Laureate and Corvallis native, presented the College of Science Fall Distinguished Lecture November 21, 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[702886,7519,841525,1168293,712375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-news","category-ph","category-press-releases","category-student-success","category-winter-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6vHeb-1iy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5260,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2016\/12\/evening-nobel-laureate-carl-wieman\/","url_meta":{"origin":4994,"position":0},"title":"An evening with Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman","author":"Sharon","date":"December 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Enjoy these photos from the College of Science Fall 2016 Distinguished Lecture featuring Nobel Laureate in Physics and Corvallis native Carl Wieman.","rel":"","context":"In "Events"","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/category\/news\/events-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/12\/20161121_COSSPeaker_HO-7693.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/12\/20161121_COSSPeaker_HO-7693.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/12\/20161121_COSSPeaker_HO-7693.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/12\/20161121_COSSPeaker_HO-7693.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/12\/20161121_COSSPeaker_HO-7693.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10064,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2018\/09\/cornell-physicist-presents-wei-family-foundation-lecture-on-atomic-deli-sandwich-structures\/","url_meta":{"origin":4994,"position":1},"title":"Cornell physicist presents Wei Family Foundation Lecture on \u201catomic deli sandwich structures\u201d","author":"farrisd","date":"September 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Cornell physicist Jie Shan presents the Wei Family Foundation Lecture, \u201cAtomic sandwich: Phonetics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials\u201d Oct. 19.","rel":"","context":"In "Alumni and Friends"","block_context":{"text":"Alumni and Friends","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/category\/people\/alumni-and-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/files\/2018\/09\/Jie-Shan_Cornell_image001.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3556,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2016\/04\/we-are-living-in-a-materials-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":4994,"position":2},"title":"Gilfillan Lecture: We are living in a Materials World","author":"farrisd","date":"April 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Physics professor Janet Tate presents, \u201cIt\u2019s a Materials World,\u201d at the 2016 F.A. 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