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Karen Marrongelle, the dean of Portland State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is stepping away from PSU at the end of September to take a top job with the National Science Foundation. Marrongelle will serve as head...

It’s official: Portland has broken its all-time record, set in 2015, of 29 days over 90 degrees. Aug. 22 marked the 30th day over 90. July was the the second warmest on record at PDX, and August has been even warmer. The cause of this...

A new Portland State University study suggests that the disproportionate placement of racial minorities into special education for learning disabilities is largely because of social inequities outside of schools rather than racially biased educators. Some attribute the overplacement to...

A Portland State University professor recently received a $350,000 federal...

Portland State University this fall will begin offering the state's first bachelor's degree in Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies, an effort years in the making. The Indigenous Nations Studies program, which is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' School of Gender,...

"Orange is the New Black," the hit Netflix prison comedy-drama, has drawn both praise and criticism for its depiction of women inmates at a fictional federal prison. A new book from a Portland State University professor uses the popular series as a starting point to offer a more realistic...

A Portland State University professor has received a $3.3 million federal grant to study the impact of an early-learning program aimed at improving children's readiness for kindergarten and later grades. PSU College of Liberal Arts and...

A new Portland State University study shows that even though water quality has improved in South Korea's Han River basin since the 1990s, there are still higher-than-acceptable levels of pollutants in some of the more urbanized regions in and around the capital Seoul. ...

The drone whirred to life, then shot skyward for a bird's-eye view of an upland prairie habitat in Cooper Mountain Nature Park just outside Beaverton. Equipped with a camera, the small white drone buzzed overhead, snapping photos of the...

Las Vegas, Nev. - In a unique project, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Environmental Management Nevada Program is working with Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI), Portland State University and members from 16 Native American tribes to restore native plants to an area of the...

Portland State University biologist Deborah Lutterschmidt won a $700,000 continuation grant from the National Science Foundation to study an essential choice all organisms make in using their limited resources: whether to produce young or feed and maintain themselves. “Despite the critical...

A new Portland State University study suggests that universities should do more to invest in training graduate students in 21st century teaching methods, and that doing so does not mean that they would be any less prepared for a career in research. ...