Graduate Student Events

Three Minute Thesis

The 3MT for short, is a research communication competition designed to help graduate students develop presentation skills by consolidating and presenting their research succinctly to a non-specialist audience, all in just three minutes. Although the name of the event is Three Minute Thesis, as a PSU Masters or Doctoral student, you are eligible to present any research you are conducting for a thesis, dissertation, or culminating project.

First Place, Runner Up, and People's Choice prizes are awarded.

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Student Research Symposium

The Portland State University Student Research Symposium is an opportunity for current PSU graduate and undergraduate students across all disciplines to showcase their research through poster and oral presentation formats. This event is traditionally held during Spring Term in the month of May.

For more information including how to participate and registration please visit the event's PDXScholar page.

University Events

Track the latest events at the PSU calendar homepage. 

Thomas C. Bielavitz Graduate Student Collaboration Hub

The Graduate Student Hub is a multi-use space, with a tech-enabled space for workshops and presentations, open space for group work, and smaller, reservable rooms. A shared workspace can be instrumental in shaping research team dynamics and increasing motivation and accountability. 

The Graduate Student Hub will be the home of various activities supporting and celebrating interdisciplinary research: 

• Networking events to facilitate faculty and students across disciplines to meet and identify shared research interests
• Workshops to support interdisciplinary teams in building shared skills such as: literature searching, citation management, data management planning, data visualization, communicating research results to a broad audience, and cultivating scholarly identity and visibility 
• Events celebrating research team milestones, and research presentations or exhibits

Visit the Graduate Student Hub page, and check below for quarterly workshop updates.