Academics & Research

 

Portland State University's first campus-wide Student Research Symposium. Undergraduate and graduate students of all disciplines encouraged to participate. Both paper and poster sessions included.

WHEN: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013

WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Union

 

Research and Strategic Partnerships announces the availability of Strategic Research Initiative funding. Proposals are due by February 4, 2013.

The Strategic Research Initiative is an internal, competitive fund supported by indirect cost returns on sponsored projects.

The explosion of big data – headlined in Time, The Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes – may worry ordinary citizens, but offers promise of new discoveries for scientists to whom Portland State University (PSU) is now offering a new tool in a course, “Data Mining With Information Theory.”

Richard Lycan, Urban and Public Affairs; Mark Sytsma and Rich Miller, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs; Will Garrick and Morgan Harvey, Academic Research and Computing; and Dave Banis, Geography, co-authored an article, “Developing the On-Line Atlas of Oregon Lakes,” published in the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 2012.

Researchers at Portland State University have discovered how mosses can recruit small creatures to help with fertilization, via a process similar to pollination in flowering plants. Results of the study were published in the journal Nature.