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Rendering of second floor of Vernier Science Center
January 27th 2023

Portland State to use $224K grant to boost career training for climate jobs

Portland State will leverage a $224,000 state grant to create a career center...
Woman with hearing aid working on laptop
January 12th 2023

How supervisors can create a better work environment for deaf or hard-of-hearing employees

Hearing loss cases are climbing globally — 1 in 5 adults are affected —...
Screenshot of a telepractice stuttering session with a patient and two grad student clinicians
January 3rd 2023

PSU clinic helps stutterers across Oregon's urban-rural divide

Megann McGill was doing tele-health before it was cool. Since 2017 — long...
Axcelle Campana poses with award, with trees in backdrop
December 5th 2022

PSU student wins $100K environmental prize

A Portland State graduate student whose work focuses on the inequities in...
three plates with meat, nuts and greens
November 7th 2022

Portland State study finds diet high in saturated fat can reprogram immune cells in mice

A new study by Portland State University researchers is the first to show...
Close up of person getting vaccine
August 26th 2022

Republicans and Blacks most hesitant to get COVID vaccine, PSU spatial analysis finds

Vaccine hesitancy remains a public health challenge that cuts across the...
Columbia River with hills in the background
January 31st 2022

PSU-led team to study microplastics across Columbia River Basin

Microplastics can be found everywhere — from the air to the ocean — but...
Medicinal Chemist Jane Kelly
July 7th 2021

NIH grants support the development of treatments for major diseases

Portland State University Researchers Jane Kelly and Papireddy Kancharla...
Lead apron
June 22nd 2021

STARK STREET MATERIALS: BETTER RADIATION SHIELDING MATERIALS

Stark Street Materials, a Portland State University Business Accelerator...
The historic Columbia River Quarantine Station
May 13th 2021

Q&A: PSU professor revisits historic quarantine station in timely new book

As the saying goes, history repeats itself, and a quarantine station in Knappton...
Literacy, Language, and Technology Research
December 2nd 2020

Kathy Harris, Research faculty in Applied Linguistics with the Literacy, Language, and Technology Research group partnered with the School of Public Health

Kathy Harris, Research faculty in Applied Linguistics with the Literacy,...
Workplace
October 6th 2020

Working Productively and Happily

According to a recent article in Forbes, more than half of U.S. workers...