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Meet Gerard Mildner
Gerard Mildner understands how cities spend money.
Faculty Member
Aaron Ingle
Systems Science Graduate Program - Master's Student
Graduate Student
Ballot Measure Archive Capstone
Ballot Measure Archive Capstone
Community Partnership
Bill Bloom
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Business Outreach Capstone
Market research that helps local companies
Community Partnership
Cecily Froemke
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices
The study of eco-roof efficiency
Research
Certain Chemistry
Cooking up a killer app. TB and malaria, beware!
Faculty Member
Chadwick Stryker
Systems Science Graduate Program - Master's Student
Graduate Student
Climate Change
Glacier research at Portland State
Research
Courtenay Silvergleid Wallpe
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
David Ervin
David Ervin, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Resources
Faculty Member
Dora Raymaker
Systems Science Graduate Program - Master's Student
Graduate Student
Ed Ramsden
Systems Science Graduate Program - Master's Student
Graduate Student
Engineering Star
Joining an elite academy.
Faculty Member
Eran Agmon
Systems Science Graduate Student - Master's Student
Graduate Student
Field Experience
Teaching tools for a more livable world.
Faculty Member
Food Chain
Bringing the freshest ideas to market.
Faculty Member
Gardens in the Sky
Reaping the facts and weeding the myths about eco-roofs.
Faculty Member
Guy Feldman
Systems Science Graduate Program - Master's Student
Graduate Student
James Kar
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Janet Hammer
Program Director, Social Equity and Opportunity Forum - College of Urban & Public Affairs
Staff Member
Jennifer Allen
Jennifer H. Allen, Associate Professor, Public Administration and Fellow, Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices
Faculty Member
Joe Fusion
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Kiwanis Camp Capstone
Students working with others
Community Partnership
Learning Garden Laboratory
Promoting sustainable gardening, growing food and healthy nutrition.
Community Partnership
Meet Alan K. Brickley
Alan Brickley can draw up a condominium association agreement.
Faculty Member
Meet Anmarie Trimble
Anmarie Trimble brings together creative writers and multimedia artists to create literary artworks.
Faculty Member
Meet Bruce Wood
Bruce Wood develops office parks and lifestyle retail centers.
Faculty Member
Meet Cherry Muhanji
Cherry Muhanji argues jazz as metaphor, where this uniquely American art form represents the democratic ideals wherein the collective plays together, solos, and then returns as a collective.
Faculty Member
Meet Dan Rogers
Dan Rogers knows how to compensate executives
Faculty Member
Meet David Aoyagi
David Aoyagi understands how to invest and manage commercial real estate.
Faculty Member
Meet Deborah Smith Arthur
Deborah Smith Arthur facilitates Capstones in the areas of juvenile justice and educational equity.
Faculty Member
Meet Eric Fruits
Eric Fruits can balance a real estate investment portfolio.
Faculty Member
Meet Eric Ridenour
Eric Ridenour will make your building energy efficient and sustainable
Faculty Member
Meet Fred Dockweiler
Fred Dockweiler understands real estate transactions from a lender and developer's point of view.
Faculty Member
Meet Jack Straton
With a background in jazz, quantum theory, and diversity training, Jack Straton infuses his classes with creativity, interdisciplinary experience, and interpersonal connection.
Faculty Member
Meet Jamie P. Ross
Jamie P. Ross shows students how philosophy and critical inquiry is the basis of all further learning.
Faculty Member
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.
Faculty Member
Meet Jerald Johnson
Jerald Johnson analyzes the market for new real estate developments.
Faculty Member
Meet Joel Bettridge
Joel Bettridge draws on his background in poetry and philosophy to help students develop their critical thinking and writing skills.
Faculty Member
Meet John Settle
John Settle analyzes investor psychology
Faculty Member
Meet Joshua Fost
Joshua Fost explores implications of neuroscience and the naturalistic worldview.Joshua Fost explores theories of mind and the implications of neuroscience and the naturalistic worldview.
Faculty Member
Meet Lorali Sinnen
Lorali Sinnen manages real estate holdings for the Port of Portland.
Faculty Member
Meet Mark A. Gregory
Staff Member
Meet Matthew Larrabee
Matthew Larrabee values real estate in the Pacific Northwest.
Faculty Member
Meet Michael Flower
Michael Flower is a developmental and molecular biologist whose interests turned from the laboratory study of embryos and genes to the ways in which they've become objects of political battle and moral dispute.
Faculty Member
Meet Michael Williams
Mike Williams analyzes rent and vacancy trends.
Faculty Member
Meet Mike Silvey
Mike Silvey has over 36 years real estate law experience.
Faculty Member
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.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Anthony Rufolo
Anthony Rufolo understands the regional economy.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Aslam Khalil
Whether from rice paddies, cities, landfills or cattle, Professor Khalil understands how trace gases effect global warming.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Barry Messer
Barry Messer knows why healthy rivers make healthy communities.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Carl Abbott
Carl Abbott writes the history of urban development and planning in the 20th-century United States.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Connie Ozawa
Connie Ozawa knows how to help people make good decisions about their communities.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor David Jay
David Jay is working to reinvent the field study of tidal analysis.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor David Sailor
David Sailor is an expert in urban climates and how they're affected by buildings, energy consumption, and human activity.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Dilafruz Williams
Do you want to talk "politics, public education and environment?" Meet Dr. Dilafruz Williams.
Faculty Member
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.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Ethan Seltzer
Ethan Seltzer is Cascadian.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Graig Spolek
The city is Professor Spolek's laboratory.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Heejun Chang
Professor Chang believes that the 21st century will be the Climate and Water Century.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor James Strathman
James Strathman understands how to get you there.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Karen Gibson
Karen Gibson understands urban diversity.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Karen Karavanic
Karen Karavanic's enthusiasm for research motivates her to integrate cutting edge results into all of her courses.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Loren Lutzenhiser
Loren Lutzenhiser understands how the way you live affects the global climate.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Mark Sytsma
When aliens invade our waters, Mark Sytsma fights back.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Michael Fogarty
Connects research on regional growth and development to urban policy, emphasizing the role of universities, government, and industry in creating innovation and regional advantage.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Miguel Figliozzi
"Innovations in freight transportation and logistics are necessary for a sustainable and vibrant economy."
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Mingdi Yan
For Professor Yan it is what's on the surface that counts.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Patricia Wetzel
Professor Patricia Wetzel travels the linguistic landscape of Japan.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Peter Dusicka
Peter Dusicka's research revolves around promoting survivability through materials and engineering.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Robert Bertini
"Many PSU students gain professional experience and contacts while in school. This gives them the ability to hit the ground running as they begin their careers."
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Rosalyn McKeown
What is education's role in a more sustainable future? Professor Rosalyn McKeown explores this topic with educators and students around the world.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Scott Wells
Scott Wells specializes in developing computer models for reservoirs, lakes, and rivers in order to maintain their quality.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Thomas Gillpatrick
Oregon's food industry has a lot of cravings. Tom Gillpatrick satisfies them.
Faculty Member
Meet Professor Vivek Shandas
Professor Shandas' teaching and research interests include: environmental policy, geographic information systems, natural resource management, participatory planning, and urban ecology.
Faculty Member
Meet Robert Greene
Robert Greene values all kinds of real estate, from retail to special use properties.
Faculty Member
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.
Staff Member
Meet Thomas Boyle
Thomas Boyle can teach you to understand the risks and rewards of real estate.
Faculty Member
Meet Vernon Rifer
Vernon Rifer develops office, urban housing, mixed use and mixed income projects in the northwest.
Faculty Member
Meet Vicki L Reitenauer
Vicki Reitenauer helps students use reflective thinking and writing in the service of working collaboratively with community organizations to make positive change.
Faculty Member
Meet Victoria Parker-Pohl
An award-winning writer, director, actor and theater instructor, Victoria Pohl has been a member of the University Studies Freshman Inquiry Program since 2001, worked since 1985 in the Theater Arts Program and acted as a founding instructor with PSU's Creative Industries Program.
Faculty Member
Meet Will Macht
Will Macht develops public-private partnerships.
Faculty Member
Mehmet Vurkac
Ph.D. Student, Friend of Systems Science Graduate Program
Graduate Student
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.
Community Partnership
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.
Community Partnership
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.
Community Partnership
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.
Community Partnership
Our Community Partner: Office of Sustainable Development
The Commercial Recycling Project provides education, outreach, research, data collection, and technical assistance services to commercial businesses, the multi-family sector, and public events in the areas of recycling practices and waste prevention.
Community Partnership
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.
Community Partnership
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.
Faculty Member
Pollution Prevention
Restoring stream banks with plants and people.
Faculty Member
Report: Fundamentals of Bicycle Boulevard Planning and Design
A guidebook to designing and planning bicycle boulevards
Publication
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.
Research
Research Profile - Darrell Brown and Scott Marshall
Drs. Brown and Marshall, together with a colleague from the University of Utah, received a grant from KPMG in 2003 to study the relationship between corporate voluntary environmental disclosures and the cost of equity capital.
Research
Research Profile - Jesse Dillard, Ph.D.
Dr. Dillard's most recent work within the area of corporate sustainability studies the effectiveness of using information systems to provide a framework for managers that includes environmental issues into decision making criteria.
Research
Robin Fenske
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Senior Capstone Program
The program offers many community-based projects
Community Partnership
Senior Capstone Program
Capstone community partners
Community Partnership
Sustainable Development
The College of Urban and Public Affairs
Research
Takuro Uehara
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Teresa Schmidt
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Tim Kochanski
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Viktoria S. Leeper
Systems Science Graduate Program - Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student
Worlds Together
Weighing global issues on a human scale.
Faculty Member
Youth Literacy Senior Capstone
Youth at King Elementary School
Community Partnership
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