Carl Wieman is an emeritus Professor jointly in Physics and of the Graduate School of Education. He has done extensive experimental research in atomic and optical physics for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. He has also carried out extensive research on undergraduate science education. He has pioneered the use of experimental techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of various teaching strategies and established the PhET project which provides online interactive simulations for learning science which are now used more than 1 million times a day. His education work has been recognized with numerous awards, including being named Carnegie US University Professor of the Year in 2004 and receiving the $ 4 M Yidan Prize for education research in 2020. He also led initiatives to bring about large-scale change in university teaching of science at the Universities of Colorado and British Columbia and published a book on that work “Improving How Universities Teach Science. From 2010-2012 he served as Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. At Stanford he has been actively involved in improving the teaching and curriculum in physics to allow more students to be successful, and his group has been involved in studying and improving the effectiveness of teaching in other science and engineering departments.

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Geoff Baker is the Interim Program Director for Student Service Groups at Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service and also serves as Interim Family Program Manager in the Office of Community Engagement. He has been actively involved in residential life as a Larkin House Resident Fellow and works at the intersection of student engagement, service, and community building.