Nobel laureate Carl E. Wieman will leave his faculty position at the University of Colorado at Boulder in January 2007 for a position at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he will head up a Can$12 million (about US$10.3 million) science education project. A Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, where he will retain a 20% appointment, Wieman will join the faculty of the physics and astronomy department at UBC. Although he won’t officially move to UBC till next January, Wieman is already working on developing its new science education project, which is aimed at emphasizing student experience, stimulating inquiry, and encouraging measurement of educational outcomes, the university said. Wieman, who joined the University of Colorado in 1984, shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating Bose–Einstein condensates.
Taft E. Armandroff has been appointed director of the W. M. Keck Observatory in Kamuela, Hawaii,...
