The Attack on Science From Washington to the Classroom:
Public Policy, Science Education, and the Emperor's New Clothes
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March 24, 2006….Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss will address Wagner faculty and students on Thursday, March 29th at 1:15 in Spiro Hall 2.
Krauss is Director of the Center for Education and Research at Case Western ReserveUniversity. He is the author of six popular books, including the international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek., and his most recent book Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond.
Dr. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows. In 1985 he joined the faculty of Physics at Yale University, and moved to take his current appointment in 1993.
From 1993 to 2005 he also served as Chairman of the Physics Department at Case. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Krauss is the author of over 200 scientific publications, as well as numerous popular articles on physics and astronomy.
Krauss has lectured to popular audiences at such places as the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of Natural History in New York, as well as serving on the boards of three different science and natural history museums, and appears frequently on radio and television around the world.
Prof. Krauss is the recipient of numerous awards for his research, writing, and lecturing. These include the Gravity Research Foundation First Prize Award (1984), and the Presidential Investigator Award (1986).
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