About · The practice

Worked from every angle.

STEMsaic grew out of one stubborn observation: across fifteen years and dozens of roles, the partnerships kept coordinating without ever quite aligning.

Portrait of Travis Tangen
Travis Tangen
Founder · STEMsaic Research Impacts

A melting-pot origin.

Travis Tangen didn't arrive at the science-society interface from one direction - he arrived from all of them. Researcher. Administrator. Tech transfer. Public engagement. Workforce development. Science education. Each role looked at the same problem through a different pane of glass.

Seen from every angle, one pattern kept repeating: partnerships that coordinated without aligning - busy, well-meaning, and quietly pulling in different directions. STEMsaic Research Impacts is the practice built to fix exactly that seam, where the specialized pieces are made to fit into one clear picture of impact.

Every pane of glass
Researcher Administrator Tech transfer Public engagement Workforce development Science education
The foundation
84
funded projects
$84M+
funded partnerships
200+
faculty trained
15+
years of practice
Delivering now
$3.8M
in active federal projects (NOAA MOSAIC + NSF EPIIC)
5
institutions: design + evaluation support
ARIS
liaison · NSF TIP

STEMsaic Research Impacts LLC is the studio behind a family of science-and-society projects.

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