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The numbers don't lie: Women and minorities have historically, and continue to be, underrepresented in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and it's no different at Portland State. Beyond the numbers is a more complicated picture of why some faculty stay...

1. Nanavati, W., C. Whitlock, V. Outes, and G. Villarosa. 2021. A Holocene history of monkey puzzle tree (pehuén) in northernmost Patagonia. Journal of Biogeography 48:833–846. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jbi.14041 2. Bergstrom, D. M., B. C. Wienecke, J. van den Hoff,...

Over the past 14 years, I have worn many hats in the Geography Department—graduate student, research assistant, teaching assistant, editorial assistant, Education Abroad program leader in India and Nepal, adjunct faculty, and fixed-term...

This book grew out of our previous title, Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas, in which we concentrated exclusively on the city where we live. After finishing the book, people asked us if there would be a sequel. Maybe another book about Portland? Or possibly one about other cities? We decided...

Andrew G. Fountain (professor emeritus) and Bryce Glenn (M.S. 2020) are updating the glacier inventory for the western US, exclusive of Alaska, for the US Forest Service. The current glacier outlines on the USGS topographic maps are often decades out of date. Counting features equal to or...

Professor Heejun Chang returned from Sabbatical in Spring 2020 when the pandemic just started. Sponsored by the Abe Fellowship Program administered by the Social Science Research Council, he spent four months at the University of Tokyo's Center for Spatial Information Science as a visiting...

Jola Ajibade, 2021 CLAS researcher of the Year Alida Cantor, 2021 John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Awards Andrés Holz, 2021 ISS Excellence in Sustainability Research - Faculty Award

Arun Pallathadka, EES PhD student (advisors Heejun Chang and Jola Ajibade), received summer research funding titled “Managed Retreat Efforts in Portland, Oregon, and Atlanta, Georgia” from the 2021 Graduate Grant program with the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network...

Publications: Cantor, Alida and A. Ross. (Book coming in Fall 2021). “Urbanization and water governance dynamics in Bend and Hood River, Oregon.” In Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice, eds. Nik Janos and Corina McKendry. University of Washington Press. Cantor,...

Chang, H., Pallathadka, A., Sauer, J., Grimm, N., Zimmerman, R., Cheng, C., Iwaniec, D., Kim, Y., Lloyd, R., McPhearson, T., Rosenzweig, B., Troxler, T., Welty, C., Brenner, R., Herreros-Cantis, P. (2021) Assessment of Urban Flood Vulnerability Using the Social-Ecological-Technological Systems...

Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, psychology faculty, has been selected as a 2...

Jennifer Allen, public administration faculty, was appointed as Chair...