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Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices
The study of eco-roof efficiency |
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Certain Chemistry
Cooking up a killer app. TB and malaria, beware! |
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Climate Change
Glacier research at Portland State |
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David Ervin
David Ervin, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Resources |
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Engineering Star
Joining an elite academy. |
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Field Experience
Teaching tools for a more livable world. |
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Food Chain
Bringing the freshest ideas to market. |
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Gardens in the Sky
Reaping the facts and weeding the myths about eco-roofs. |
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Janet Hammer
Program Director, Social Equity and Opportunity Forum - College of Urban & Public Affairs |
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Jennifer Allen
Jennifer H. Allen, Associate Professor, Public Administration and Fellow, Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices |
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Learning Garden Laboratory
Promoting sustainable gardening, growing food and healthy nutrition. |
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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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Meet Mark A. Gregory
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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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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 Barry Messer
Barry Messer knows why healthy rivers make healthy communities. |
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Meet Professor Connie Ozawa
Connie Ozawa knows how to help people make good decisions about their communities. |
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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 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 Dilafruz Williams
Do you want to talk "politics, public education and environment?" Meet Dr. Dilafruz Williams. |
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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 Graig Spolek
The city is Professor Spolek's laboratory. |
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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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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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Meet Professor Loren Lutzenhiser
Loren Lutzenhiser understands how the way you live affects the global climate. |
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Meet Professor Mark Sytsma
When aliens invade our waters, Mark Sytsma fights back. |
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Meet Professor Miguel Figliozzi
"Innovations in freight transportation and logistics are necessary for a sustainable and vibrant economy." |
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Meet Professor Mingdi Yan
For Professor Yan it is what's on the surface that counts. |
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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 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." |
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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. |
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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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Meet Professor Thomas Gillpatrick
Oregon's food industry has a lot of cravings. Tom Gillpatrick satisfies them. |
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Meet Professor Vivek Shandas
Professor Shandas' teaching and research interests include: environmental policy, geographic information systems, natural resource management, participatory planning, and urban ecology. |
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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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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: 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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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: 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: 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. |
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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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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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Pollution Prevention
Restoring stream banks with plants and people. |
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Report: Fundamentals of Bicycle Boulevard Planning and Design
A guidebook to designing and planning bicycle boulevards |
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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 - 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. |
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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. |
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Sustainable Development
The College of Urban and Public Affairs |
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Worlds Together
Weighing global issues on a human scale. |
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