Julie Risien
Julie Risien
Dr. Julie Risien is the Director of the NSF Polar STEAM programs which are housed at the Center and conducted in collaboration with the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts, Precollege Programs, and the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS). She serves as Principal on the ARC-Learn undergraduate research program, also in partnership with CEOAS, and participates in several national science and society initiatives as research partner or adviser. Julie served as the Associate Director for the Center from 2012 until 2022 when she became the Director of Transdisciplinary Research in the Office for Research Advancement under the Vice President for Research. She is a Co-PI on the NSF-funded resource center Advancing Research Impacts in Society (ARIS), serves on the graduate faculty for CEOAS and the OSU Environmental Sciences Program. Her research and practice 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.
Current Projects:
- Polar STEAM: Where Curiosity Thrives (2022-)
- 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)
- Revealing Progress toward Promotion and Tenure Reform in the Academy (2018-2022)
Past Projects
- BID: Grounding Institutional Partnerships in Structures for Broader Impacts Design (2017-2022)
- 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)
Education
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences (Social Science)
M.S. Marine Resource Management
B.A. Environmental Sciences (Marine Ecology)