Nobel laureate in physics to speak at Purdue center's kickoff
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Wieman will give the inaugural address at the kickoff at 4:30 p.m. in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. The title of the talk is "Science Education in the 21st Century." A reception in the Stewart Center lobby under the mural will follow the talk. Both events are free and open to the public.
On Tuesday (Nov. 7), Wieman will take part in a student talk open to the first 40 students who sign up. The talk will take place at 10:30 a.m. in the Physics Building, Room 242. To sign up., contact Robin French at (765) 494-1735 or Lynn Gerrard at (765) 494-4564.
Wieman is a distinguished professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is the director of the university's Center for Science Education. He has been a fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics since 1995 and served as its chairman from 1993-95.
In 2001 he was one of a team of three to receive the Nobel Prize in physics. The prize was for the group's achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.
Wieman received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, doctorate from Stanford University in 1977 and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Chicago in 1997.
Purdue's Center for Research and Engagement in Science and Mathematics Education will provide support for faculty, staff and students engaged in science and mathematics education research. Faculty from both the Colleges of Education and Science are involved in the interdisciplinary center, and it will be housed in the Discovery Learning Center.
Writer: Kim Medaris, (765) 494-6998, kmedaris@purdue.edu
Source: Tonya Agnew, communication and alumni relations director for the College of Education, (765) 494-0568, tragnew@purdue.edu
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