Broader Impacts

At Portland State, we value connecting teaching, research, scholarship, and service to community priorities. Our history as Oregon’s only urban, access-oriented, public-serving research institution positions us as a community leader and valued partner in addressing 21st-century challenges. Broader Impact activities contribute to our leadership capacity by making community connections, through K-12 outreach programs, undergraduate research opportunities, or education programs for teachers or other community members.

Below you will find examples of this work at Portland State and resources to help you reach beyond the academy to a larger audience. Our set of resources is meant to help you develop a Broader Impacts Plan, helping you meet one of the essential requirements for National Science Foundation grant proposals. A Broader Impacts Plan is also a critical element for many sponsors, donors, and community constituents.

Broader Impacts Resources

NSF CAREER Award Project Aims to Improve Understanding of Oregon's Inland Faults

Portland State University earthquake geologist, Ashely Streig, knows firsthand the kind of damage earthquakes can cause. Streig has served on several teams responding to major seismic events--the Chi-Chi earthquake, which struck Taiwan in 1999, and the 2011 Tohoku subduction zone earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Streig recently received a five-year, $582,316 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study some of these inland crustal faults in western Oregon, the northern Oregon Cascades, and the Strawberry Range in the eastern part of the state.