CV (the more Creative one)

Table of Contents for the CV

Education

PhD. Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences (currently ABD; Anticipated Graduation: December 2022), University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM.
M.S. Statistics (May 2020), University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM. Thesis title: “A Statistical Analysis of the UNM FACETS Design Identity & Beliefs Survey Data”
M.S. Chemistry (Major: Organic, May 2000), University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM.
B.S. Biochemistry (Minor: History, May 1998), Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.

Contact Information

Website: https://clarissasorensenunruh.com/

Twitter: @RissaChem

LinkedIn: /clarissa-sorensen-unruh

Skills

As the YouTube video embedded below shows, I approach work as a highly efficient, designerly, detail-oriented, multifaceted researcher/practitioner who is a team player and communicates effectively in both oral and written forms.

Professional Positions/Experience

My professional positions demonstrate experience in complex project/program management, advisement/mentoring, teaching and learning, curriculum revision, systems design, grant writing, and professional development facilitation.

My professional positions from 1/2001 – present.

Honors/Awards

A logo for one of the awards I’ve received as a woman in a non-traditional career. Click on the picture to get the full list of awards and honors.

Grants and Contracts

Several grants that I’ve been an active part of (or that I received funding from) include Dept of Education Title V, NSF Career and Advance grants, Perkins Funding, and NASA.Click on the picture to see more grants/contracts received.

Research

I live at the intersection of chemistry, statistics, and learning sciences. My STEM education research blends practitioner and researcher roles and focuses on ethics in assessment, critical quantitative methodologies, and assessment and evaluation, specifically ungrading. My quantitative skills include data cleaning, multiple and multivariate statistical analysis, and data communication and visualization. I can program in R, Matlab, and a little bit in Python. I also use MS Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets extensively in data cleaning and data visualization. My qualitative skills include designing and conducting interviews and focus groups. I have coded interview transcripts, narratives, and artifacts using in vivo, thematic, VAB (values, attitudes, beliefs), holistic, narrative, hypothesis and grounded theory coding techniques. I have used case study (including multiple case study) analysis, narrative analysis, grounded theory, evaluative research and design-based research.