Portland State Magazine

In a continued effort to provide cutting edge business education for working professionals in the Portland Metro area and throughout the region, PSU's School of Business Administration is pleased to announce the opening of its new Center for Executive and Professional Education (CEPE). Formerly known as the Professional Development Center, CEPE offers a variety of education programs to help professionals improve their real-world skills and become successful business leaders.

Help solve campus history mysteries

THIS PHOTO was taken on campus in March 1967, but who are these people, what they are doing, and why?

Newcomer scores and rebounds

GET INTO THE Portland State of Mind October 19-27 as the University opens its doors to the community for fun, athletic, and educational events.

A place of honor

With Director Ann Marie Fallon’s vibrant new leadership, the University Honors Program is attracting top-tier students—and significant gifts.

Michael DeShane MA ’71, PhD ’77 and Keren Brown Wilson PhD ’83 have done a lot for older Oregonians, including funding the Aging Matters: Locally and Globally Initiative at the PSU Institute on Aging.

 

Women students from Saudi Arabia are finding a strikingly different but welcoming culture at Portland State.

The classroom experience may radically change because of new ideas from faculty and staff.

STUDENTS ANYWHERE in the world can soon earn an undergraduate business degree, study the emerging field of complex systems science, or learn how to start a business with a social mission—all fully online through Portland State.

These are three of the initiatives that grew out of “reThink PSU,” a campuswide push to improve teaching and learning at the University by investing in innovation.

Odorless, colorless and dangerous, radon gas poses a real risk in Oregon homes.

TOWARD THE END of the last ice age—between 15,000 and 18,000 years ago—one of the most cataclysmic events in Pacific Northwest history reshaped the upper Willamette Valley. As a result, it gave certain areas of modern-day Portland a lung cancer risk that is second only to smoking.