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Alumni Profile: Casey Rice '94
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Trudy Toliver '84
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Alumnus |
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Laura Kutner - Trash For Peace
“We know we are having an impact and that makes everything worth it.”
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The Green Building Research Lab
Supporting fundamental and applied research relevant to the green building industry, and serving as a teaching resource for students studying building science.
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Research |
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Meet Jason Franklin
Director of Campus Planning and Design
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Staff Member |
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Meet Professor Alan Yeakley
Director of the School of the Environment
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Faculty Member |
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Meet Professor Angela Strecker
Director of the Strecker Aquatic Ecology Lab
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Faculty Member |
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Meet Professor Robert Scheller
Director of the Dynamic Ecosystems and Landscape Lab
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Meet Professor John Rueter
SOE Directer returns to teaching
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Meet Professor Yangdong Pan
Chair of Environmental Science & Management
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Meet Professor Joe Maser
Preserving our wetlands
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Meet Professor Elise Granek
Preserving marine biodiversity
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Meet Professor Jeff Gerwing
Making sustainability education available for all students
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Meet Professor Marion Dresner
Encouraging citizen participation in environmental science.
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Climate Action Plan - Implementation Team
Implementing PSU’s ambitious Climate Action Plan is challenging work requiring collaboration between all parts of the university.
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Organization |
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School of the Environment
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Organization |
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Meet Professor Bill Fish
Heavy metal clean-up
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Meet Professor Cat De Rivera
Biological invasion warrior
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Meet Professor Linda George
Dr. Linda George recently honored with NSF position.
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History Beneath Our Feet: The Cobblestones in the Shattuck Hall Ecological Learning Plaza
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PSU Climate Champions
PSU departments working to reduce their environmental footprint.
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Resource |
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PSU Reuse Room
Need a binder or desk organizer? The PSU Reuse Room is a place for the free exchange of usable office and school supplies.
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Resource |
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Harrell Fletcher
Social Canvas - Engaging a community through art
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Randy Bluffstone
Village Provisions - Cultivating rural livelihoods around the world
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Evan Thomas
Elemental Needs - Engineering global public health solutions
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Faculty Member |
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Intergenerational Finance: A Business Partnership with the Future
Giving future generations investment power in our current economy is the concept behind Intergenerational Finance.
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PSU professors co-author U.N. report on happiness
Report: economies need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth.
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Conserving Oregon's Rich Biodiversity
Innovation: Supporting biodiversity conservation: the Oregon Biodiversity Information Center at Portland State University
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Applying Nature's Lessons to Saving the Environment
Innovation: Associate Professor of Biology, Radu Popa and his colleagues are using black soldier fly larvae to recycle nutrients from waste water.
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Kelly Clifton
Travel Choices - Rethinking transportation choices for healthy communities
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NSF Initative for Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES)
A video presentation for PSU by the National Science Foundation on the SEES initiative and investments.
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Understanding the Social Dimensions of Sustainability
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Meet Keith
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Undergraduate Student |
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Meet Heather Spalding
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Staff Member |
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Reclaiming Sustainability: Vivek Shandas
Collectively addressing big problems to find equitable solutions
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Video: Shaping our Place, Scaling up Solutions
CIMM: A new collaborative research center aims to scale-up solutions
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Vivek Shandas
City Solutions - Transforming urban spaces and natural places
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Sergio Palleroni
Public Works - Greening schools and housing
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Thad Miller
Helping to understand and pursue sustainability
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Meet Mary Vance
Mary, a Career Counselor for Advising & Career Services, helps students turn their passion for sustainability into a career.
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Dave Ervin
Seed Science - Assessing the impact of biotech on farming
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Graig Spolek
Green Building Counsel - Changing the science of building
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Kristi Yuthas
Earning Power - Lifting people out of poverty through business education
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Scott Wells
Clean Water Acts - Keeping surface water safe from pollution
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Dr. James F. Pankow
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Report: Fundamentals of Bicycle Boulevard Planning and Design
A guidebook to designing and planning bicycle boulevards
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David Peyton
Parasite Prescription - Revising solutions, reviving hope
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Jennifer Allen
Natural Capital - Fostering rural-urban connections
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Carl Wamser
Capture the Sun - Harvesting solar power
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Rudy Barton
Shapes of Ideas - Forming communities through design
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Scott Marshall
Better Business - Valuing equity and ecology
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James Pankow
Engineering Star - Joining an elite academy
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Veronica Dujon
Worlds Together - Weighing global issues on a human scale
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Mellie Pullman
Food Chain - Bringing the freshest ideas to market
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Barry Messer
Pollution Prevention - Restoring stream banks with plants and people
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Kevin Reynolds
Certain Chemistry - Cooking up a killer app. TB and malaria, beware!
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David Sailor
Gardens in the Sky - Reaping the facts and weeding the myths about eco-roofs
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Research Profile - Carl Wamser
Carl Wamser and about 50 others researchers worldwide are developing synthetic membranes using a similar process to convert sunlight into electricity—on a scale that one day could be used in homes and skyscrapers.
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Research Profile - Loren Lutzenhiser
Before the survey, commissioned by the California Energy Commission, "It was assumed," says Lutzenhiser, "that people would tar and feather you" if you suggested they do without modern conveniences such as air conditioning. "That was the received wisdom, but that's not what happened."
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PA Professor Marcus Ingle
Interested in Global Leadership? What about traveling? If yes, Professor Ingle's Development Management in Vietnam class might be a good fit for you.
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Miguel Figliozzi
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Meet Professor Graig Spolek
The city is Professor Spolek's laboratory.
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Meet Professor Tugrul Daim
Tugrul Daim's research and teachings revolve around the creation of roadmaps that organizations can use to implement emerging technologies.
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Meet Professor Dundar Kocaoglu
Dundar Kocaoglu and his team of researchers have developed a process to help companies make strategic decisions using mathematical models to determine a decision's impact.
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Meet Professor David Sailor
David Sailor is an expert in urban climates and how they're affected by buildings, energy consumption, and human activity.
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Meet Professor David Jay
David Jay is working to reinvent the field study of tidal analysis.
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Meet Professor Peter Dusicka
Peter Dusicka's research revolves around promoting survivability through materials and engineering.
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Meet Professor Scott Wells
Scott Wells specializes in developing computer models for reservoirs, lakes, and rivers in order to maintain their quality.
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Janet Hammer
Program Director, The Initiative on Triple Bottom Line Development - College of Urban & Public Affairs
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Meet Robyn Pierce
Robyn Pierce's upbeat personality helps keep morale high in a department that must race to keep up with the facilities and planning needs of Oregon's largest university.
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Climate Change
Glacier research at Portland State
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Learning Garden Laboratory
Promoting sustainable gardening, growing food and healthy nutrition.
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Sustainable Development
The College of Urban and Public Affairs
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Bamboo clothing with a message
Alum Ryan Christensen uses "eco-friendly" clothing as his "weapon of choice" to convey a social message.
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Meet Professor Heejun Chang
Professor Chang believes that the 21st century will be the Climate and Water Century.
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David Ervin
David Ervin, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Resources
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Jennifer Allen
Jennifer H. Allen, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Acting Director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions
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Meet Professor Dilafruz Williams
Do you want to talk "politics, public education and environment?" Meet Dr. Dilafruz Williams.
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Meet Professor Karen Karavanic
Karen Karavanic's enthusiasm for research motivates her to integrate cutting edge results into all of her courses.
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Vivek Shandas
Integrating the science of sustainability with citizen engagement and decision making efforts
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Meet Professor Aslam Khalil
Whether from rice paddies, cities, landfills or cattle, Professor Khalil understands how trace gases effect global warming.
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Meet Professor Andrew G. Fountain
This Ice Man travels the world to study glaciers, including the one named after him the Fountain Glacier in Antarctica.
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Loren Lutzenhiser
Exploring how cities and people use energy.
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Connie P. Ozawa
Connie Ozawa knows how to help people make good decisions about their communities.
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Meet Associate Professor Barry Messer
Barry Messer knows why healthy rivers make healthy communities.
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Meet Jeff Gerwing
How can people have equitable access to rich and rewarding lives while living within the means of natural systems? This question is central to the research and teaching of Dr. Jeff Gerwing.
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Our Community Partner: Axis Performance
AXIS Performance Advisors is a management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of sustainable business practices. This partnership is a joint collaboration between PSU and Axis Performance to offer a professional certificate in implementing sustainability practices.
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Our Community Partner: Metro Regional Government
Metro funds commercial technical assistance projects providing on-site assistance to businesses throughout the region focusing on recovering additional resources from the waste stream, increasing markets for recycled content products, and promoting waste prevention practices.
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Our Community Partner: Johnson Creek Watershed Council
PSU students and the Johnson Creek Watershed Council work together to set up a snapshot monitoring event designed to empower individual landowners to learn about the health of Johnson Creek on their property, meeting the goals of the watershed council in the areas of protection, conservation, and restoration of the watershed.
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Our Community Partner: US Fish and Wildlife Service
This partnership involves the cooperation of the USFWS, the Chinook Tribe and Portland State University and is aimed at archaeological and environmental research, public education and student training.
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Our Community Partner: Bureau of Environmental Services
The Community Watershed Stewardship Partnership utilizes PSU students in assisting neighborhoods and communities to develop voluntary watershed protection activities and programs.
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Community Partnership |
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Meet Professor Bryant York
When not teaching and working with students in his adaptive learning lab in PSU's Computer Science Department, Dr. Bryant York helps shape the future of computer science.
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Meet Professor Thomas Gillpatrick
Oregon's food industry has a lot of cravings. Tom Gillpatrick satisfies them.
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Meet Professor Robert Bertini
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Meet Professor Mark Sytsma
When aliens invade our waters, Mark Sytsma fights back.
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