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Can and will research universities prepare present and future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty for successful careers that advance their disciplines in both research and teaching? Since graduate students at research universities become the faculty at most colleges and universities around the nation, the answer may determine whether STEM higher education can make the advances being asked of it by the nation. The UW-Madison's Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) is a design experiment based on three core ideas: teaching-as-research, learning  communities, and learning-through-diversity. This experiment includes graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and academic staff in all STEM departments at major research universities. The Center's first annual report has been published and is available online here:  http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cirtl/products_publications.html.