STEM Research Center

Dr. Julie Risien, currently on leave as Associate Director of the STEM Research Center, serves as the Center Program Lead for Science in Society. She is also the Director of Transdisciplinary Research Impact and Advancement in the OSU Research Office. She leads the scholarship initiative for NSF-funded Resource Center Advancing Research Impacts in Society (ARIS). 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 scientist professional development and inter-institutional partnerships to enhance “Broader Impacts”, the transformative power of learning networks, organizational structures, and partnerships to improve connection at the interface of science and society. 

Curriculum Vitae

Current Projects: 

• Authentic Research through Collaborative Learning (ARC-Learn): Undergraduate Research Experiences in Data Rich Arctic Science (2021-2024)
• PTIE: Promotion and Tenure - Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2019-2023) 
• STEM Ambassadors (2019-2023)
• ARIS (2018-2023)
• BID: Grounding Institutional Partnerships in Structures for Broader Impacts Design (2017-2022) 
• Revealing Progress toward Promotion and Tenure Reform in the Academy (2018-2022) 

Past Projects

• InclusiveExcellence@OSU (2018-2021) 
• 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)
• A Landscape of University Systems and People: Supporting Scientists in Public Engagement (2017-2018)
• ESTEME@OSU: Enhancing STEM Education at OSU (2014-2018) 
• Learning Network: Case Study of the National Alliance for Broader Impacts (2018)
• Oregon State University Research Impacts Network (ORIN) 
• Undergraduate Success Initiative (2012-2014) 

Media and Publications:

• Carter, R. G., Mundorff, K., Risien, J., Bouwma-Gearhart, J., Bratsch-Prince, D., Brown, S. A., Campbell, A. L., Hartman, J. C., Hasemann, C. A., Hollenbeck, P. J., Lupiani, B., McCarty, O. J. T., McClure, I. D., Mealey, K., Mimura, C., Romero, A. J., Sztajn, P., & Egeren, L. V. (2021). Innovation, entrepreneurship, promotion, and tenure. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj2098
• Risien, J., & Goldstein, B. E. (2021). Boundaries Crossed and Boundaries Made: The Productive Tension Between Learning and Influence in Transformative Networks. Minerva. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09442-9
• 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/