Advisory
Team
Vicki Bier
is an associate professor of industrial engineering and of engineering physics at
UW-Madison, where she is director of the Center for Human Performance in Complex Systems.
Bier studies methods for probabilistic risk analysis of complex engineered systems such as
nuclear power plants. She is also interested in Bayesian statistics and decision analysis,
and is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty and dependence. As part
of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, she is currently
working on risk communication in support of risk-based regulation.
Michael Corradini is an engineering associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of
mechanical engineering and engineering physics at UW-Madison. His research interests
are centered primarily in thermal hydraulics and multiphase flow. He emphasizes the areas
of reactor operation, reactor safety, waste reprocessing, and recycle and risk assessment.
Corradini is director of the college's Nuclear Safety Research Center. He received a
University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996. 
Robert M. Fitch, an independent consultant in science, technology, and
science education, recently retired as senior vice-president and chief scientific officer
of S.C. Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin. He has served as chair of the National Industry
Council for Science Education and has worked with many agencies devoted to improving the
quality of U.S. mathematics and science instruction.
LeRoy Lee is executive director of the Center
for the Advancement of Science Education at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and
Letters. He is a past president of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and
currently serves as its treasurer. He has served on several National Science Education
Association boards and has worked with state associations on board development and
association management.
Thomas A. Romberg, director of the National Center for
Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science in WCER and
professor of curriculum and instruction (mathematics education), UW-Madison, has a long
history of leadership in mathematics curriculum reform. His research has focused on young
children's learning of initial mathematical concepts, methods of evaluating students and
programs, and integrating research on teaching, curriculum, and student thinking. In 1997
he received the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Lifetime Achievement Medal in
Leadership, Teaching, and Service.
Pat Rossman, an elementary teacher at Conrad Elvehjem School in
McFarland, Wisconsin, has 37 years of teaching experience in Madison and McFarland
schools. The 1995 Wisconsin Elementary School Teacher of the Year, she is on the board of
"Project 2061: Science for All Americans" at its McFarland site. She helped
create national benchmarks for science, mathematics, and technology.
Leona Schauble is an associate
professor in educational psychology at UW-Madison and a cognitive developmental
psychologist with research interests in the relations between everyday reasoning and more
formal, culturally supported, and schooled forms of thinking. In 1991, she received a
National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship to investigate developmental changes in
how children and adults understand the goals and strategies of scientific experimentation.
Uri Treisman,
director of the Office of Mathematics and director of the Charles A. Dana Center for
Mathematics and Science Education, University of Texas at Austin, has professional
interests in mathematics education and educational policy, with an emphasis on minority
participation. A MacArthur Fellow in 1992, Treisman serves on the Advisory Board of the
National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources Directorate and on the Board
of Directors of the American Association of Higher Education.