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Portland State University
December 16th 2020

PSU researchers among top in the world

A new study published in PLOS Biology Journal lists Portland State researchers...
Smoke and fire billowing in the sky and burned trees
December 14th 2020

Oregon's Western Cascades watershed to experience larger, more frequent fires, PSU study finds

The Clackamas Basin rarely experiences the intense fire activity that burned...
December 10th 2020

Celebrating Graduate Student Success: Tendai Mafireyi

Chemistry Ph.D. student Tendai Mafireyi Tendai Mafireyi, a Ph.D. student in chemistry professor Robert Strongin's lab, was recently honored by being named the Top Chemistry Graduate Student at the Sigma Xi 2020 Annual Meeting and Student...
Adult Literacy and Learning: What Does Analysis on Critical Race Theory Reveal?"
December 7th 2020

Kathy Harris and Gloria Jacobs from the Literacy, Language, and Technology Research group in the Department of Applied Linguistics and colleagues present at recent Literacy Research Association virtual conference

Kathy Harris and Gloria Jacobs from the Literacy, Language, and Technology...
Forest fire
December 7th 2020

Will last summer's fires impact critical water supplies?

On August 16, 2020, a lightning strike in Lionshead Canyon ignited what would...
Inmates sewing garments at sewing machines.
December 3rd 2020

Mass incarceration results in significant increases in industrial emissions, PSU study finds

Mass incarceration is as much an environmental problem as it is a social...
Tanya Sydorenko
December 2nd 2020

Tetyana (Tanya) Sydorenko will co-present paper at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Virtual Conference in March 2021

Tetyana Sydorenko (a faculty member at the AL Dept. at PSU), with collaborators...
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,...
Keith Walters, Applied Linguistics Emeritus Faculty
December 2nd 2020

Keith Walters, Applied Linguistics faculty emeritus, co-edited “The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity” published by Routledge

Keith Walters, Applied Linguistics faculty emeritus, co-edited “The Routledge...
Biomarker detecting dyes
December 1st 2020

Developing new tools to study disease

According to the American Cancer Society, there were an estimated 1,762,45...
Deep-sea thermal vents
December 1st 2020

Deep-sea volcanoes: Windows into the subsurface

Hydrothermally-active submarine volcanoes account for much of Earth's volcanism...
Pacific razor clams on beach
November 30th 2020

Even razor clams on sparsely populated Olympic Coast can't escape plastics, PSU study finds

Portland State University researchers and their collaborators at the Quinault...