Carl Wieman Takes his Crusade to Further Science Undergraduate Education to Stanford. (August 29, 2013)

ScienceInsider's Jeffrey Mervis reports that Nobel Laureate, Carl Wieman will join the Stanford University faculty on September 1, 2013, i.e. shortly before the beginning of the university's first 2013/14 quarter.

Professor Wieman will be a faculty member in both the physics department and Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, which according to Mr Mervis will allow him to continue his "research on learning in new directions while continuing to incorporate those insights into the classroom".

He told Mr Mervis that the position gives him the opportunity  to: "spend my time on things that I personally find a lot more fun and satisfying."

The ScienceInsider report concludes that his previous efforts first at the University of British Columbia and then as the "White House science education czar"

“have earned me the right to be more selfish” in his professional life. In particular, that means conducting research on how students learn and applying those lessons to individual courses in specific fields. “This work involves thinking about interesting intellectual problems, working with good students and collaborators, and writing papers,” he says.

These academic pursuits don’t mean a complete withdrawal from the frontlines of education policymaking, however. “I will continue to advocate for the adoption of effective teaching practices and give advice to institutions that want it on how they can improve their STEM teaching,” he says.