STEM Research Center

Dr. Julie Risien is the Associate Director at Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center. Julie oversees operations and leads the Center’s research and programmatic portfolio on improving the science/society connection. She leads the scholarship initiative for Advancing Research Impacts in Society, or the ARIS Center; conducts research on inter-institutional partnerships to enhance “Broader Impacts”; and manages the InclusiveExcellence @OSU initiative aimed at transforming undergraduate education. She serves on the steering committees for the National Alliance for Broader Impacts (NABI) and Undergraduate Field Experiences Research Network (UFERN), and collaborates with the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Learning (CAISE). Julie serves on the graduate faculty for the OSU College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program. Her research focuses on the transformative power of learning networks, organizational structures, professional growth, and partnerships to improve connection at the interface of science and society. 

Curriculum Vitae

 Center Projects: 

• A Landscape of University Systems and People: Supporting Scientists in Public Engagement (2017-2018)
• ARIS (2018-2023)
• BID: Grounding Institutional Partnerships in Structures for Broader Impacts Design (2017-2022) 
• Broader Impacts: Towards a Strategic Approach for OSU (2012) and Building a Campus-wide Network (2015) 
• CAISE: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (2016-2021)
• ESTEME@OSU: Enhancing STEM Education at OSU (2014-2018) 
• InclusiveExcellence@OSU (2018-2022) 
• Learning Network: Case Study of the National Alliance for Broader Impacts (2018) 
• PTIE: Promotion and Tenure - Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2019-2020) 
• Revealing Progress toward Promotion and Tenure Reform in the Academy (2018-2020) 
• STEM Ambassadors (2019-2021)
• UFERN: Undergraduate Field Experiences Research Network (2017-2021)
• Undergraduate Success Initiative (2012-2014) 

Media and Publications

• Risien, J. and Goldstein, B.E. (2020). Boundaries Crossed and Boundaries Made: The productive tension between learning and influence in transformative networks (in press).
• Cho H. and Risien, J. (2020). Understanding faculty and student perceptions about reward and advancement: survey of four STEM departments at research intensive universities. Corvallis, OR: STEM Research Center. https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/1145
• Risien, J. (2019). Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation. Evaluation and program planning, 73, 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.12.001
• Hoke, K. and Risien, J. (2019). Visualizing Connections and Influences across the Informal Science Education and Science Communication Communities: An interactive map of thinkers and leaders. Washington, D.C.: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education https://khoke.kumu.io/visualizing-connections-and-influences-across-the-ise-and-scicomm-communities.
• Hoke, K. and Risien, J. (2019) Collaborative Research: Grounding Institutional Partnerships in Structures for Broader Impact Design Mid-Way Evaluation Report. Corvallis, OR: Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning. https://stem.oregonstate.edu/sites/stem.oregonstate.edu/files/esteme/BID-mid-way%20report-2019.pdf 
• Risien, J. and Storksdieck, M. (2018) Unveiling Impact Identities: A Path for Connecting Science and Society, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 58, Issue 1, 1 July 2018, Pages 58–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy011
• Risien, J. and Nilson, R. (2018). Coordinated Reform and Local Solutions: Transforming the University Systems of Reward and Professional Advancement. Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning, Oregon State University. Corvallis: OR. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/n583z1076 
• Skvoretz, J., Risien, J. Goldberg, B. (2018) Network Measurement and Data Collection Methods in Higher Education: Practices and Guidelines. In (Eds) Henderson, C., Rasmussen, C., Knaub, A., Apkarian, N., Daly, A. J., & Fisher, K. Q. (2018). Researching and Enacting Change in Postsecondary Education: Leveraging Instructors' Social Networks (Vol. 28). Routledge.
• Risien, J. & Nilson, R. (2018). Landscape overview of university systems and people supporting scientists in their public engagement efforts: summary of existing recommendations and evidence from the field. Report to the Kavli, Rita Allen, Packard, and Moore Foundations https://www.informalscience.org/support-systems-scientists-communication-and-engagement-workshop-iii-academic-institutions-landscape
• Storksdieck, M., Bevan, B., Risien, J., Nilson, R., & Willis, K. (2018). Charting the Intersection of Informal STEM Education and Science Communication: Results of a Social Network Study. Washington, DC: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education. https://www.informalscience.org/charting-intersection-informal-stem-education-and-science-communication-results-social-network-study
• Julie Risien (2018). Social Impacts of Science: The New NSF Center to Advance Research Impacts in Society. Think Out Loud live radio show. Portland, OR: Oregon Public Broadcasting. https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/think-out-loud/article/kids-first-project-impacts-of-science-rape-kit-backlog/
• Julie Risien (2016) OSU Ecampus Research in Action podcast, Episode #35
• Risien, J. (May 2015). Perspectives: Discovering our "Research-Impact" Identities. Terra Magazine: Inspired Stories from the Edge of Science. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University  http://terra.oregonstate.edu/2015/05/perspectives-discovering-our-research-impact-identities/