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As the wildfires and hotter summers become more frequent in the Northwest, experts from across a range of sectors including academia, state and federal agencies, tribal communities and municipal governments throughout the region gathered...

With warming temperatures, average snowfall frequency is estimated to decline across the Pacific Northwest by 2100 — and at a faster rate if greenhouse emissions are not reduced, according to a new Portland State University study. ...

Portland State University has received nearly $5 million from the National Science Foundation to improve access to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for underrepresented students and to pay them a living wage The five-year project will work to reduce the urban-rural...

A Portland State University biology professor will continue her research into the effect of the Western diet on the immune system and disease outcomes, thanks to a $1.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Brooke Napier, an assistant biology professor in PSU's College...

Researchers from Portland State University and the University of Texas Medical Branch have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to generate a clearer and more detailed structure of Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus 1, a virus that thrives in high-temperature...

From high levels of lead found in school drinking water to industry sites releasing toxic heavy metals into the air, over 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health from toxic chemicals. In a new paper published in BioScience, Portland...

PSU chemistry professor Kevin Reynolds (center), Jane Kelly and Papireddy Kancharla. A team of Portland State University researchers who have discovered a possible one-pill cure for malaria has received a $3.15 million grant from the...

BUILD EXITO, a Portland State University program to help diverse, underrepresented students become research scientists, will graduate its largest cohort to date this June. The 52 students completed the three-year BUILD EXITO program while pursuing their bachelor’s degrees in biomedical,...

Forest fires are causing snow to melt earlier in the season, a trend occurring across the western U.S. that may affect water supplies and trigger even more fires, according to a new study by a team of researchers at Portland State University (PSU) , the Desert Research Institute (DRI), and...

Despite popular belief that green roofs – roofs that are planted with...

Archaeologists analyzing the remains uncovered from an ancient Native American village in present-day Port Angeles, Washington, found evidence that the village was hit by as many as five tsunamis. A team of researchers from Portland State University, Western Washington University and the...

Portland experiences both extreme heat in the summer months and frequent nuisance flooding in the winter and spring, and that's only expected to worsen with climate change. A new Portland State University study found the potential for flooding and extreme heat is most acute in East Portland’s...