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September 16th 2021

Meet Cristina Herrera

Cristina Herrera joins Portland State as professor and new director of Chicano/Latino Studies after 14 years at California State University, Fresno. There, she served as chair of the Department of Chicano and Latin American studies, faculty...
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September 14th 2021

PSU Alumna and Daughter of Iraqi Refugees Helps Incarcerated Students Chart Reentry Paths

Hanan Al-Zubaidy '15, MS '18 never met her maternal grandfather, but says...
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September 7th 2021

Teaching Innovation Conference Kicks Off September 20th: Inclusive Frameworks for Student Success

Inclusive Frameworks for Student Success: A Teaching Innovation Conference September...
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September 3rd 2021

WSU I-Corps: Cultivating an Ecosystem of Innovation at Portland State and Beyond

The Washington State University (WSU) Site of the National Science Foundation's...
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August 30th 2021

How Hood River watershed can become more resilient to climate change

Hood River, long an agricultural center for Oregon, faces an uncertain future...
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August 30th 2021

Getting your head in the game: Mentally reattaching to work important for leader success, PSU study finds

Getting into the right mindset for work can set the tone for the rest of...
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August 25th 2021

PSU is among the top universities in the world for social science publications

Scientific papers in the social sciences authored by Portland State faculty...
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August 24th 2021

The giant Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus was a scavenger, not a predator

In a paper published August 23, authors Cameron Pahl and Luis Ruedas,...
August 9th 2021

'Why you gotta be so rude?' PSU study highlights 'vicious cycle' of workplace incivility

Workplace incivility is on the rise and a new Portland State University study found that employees who experience or witness incivilities are more likely to be uncivil to others, a worrying trend that could intensify as people return to in-person work. "People have gotten used to not having...
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July 21st 2021

Oldest fossils of methane-cycling microbes expand frontiers of habitability on early Earth

A team of international scientists, including researchers with ties to Portland...
July 20th 2021

Alumni Spotlight: Elijah Akinyemi ’83, MS ’84

Elijah Akinyemi By the time Elijah Akinyemi (’83, MS ’84) came to America at the age of 23, he knew his calling was to open doors for people with disabilities. Born in a small farming village in Nigeria, Akinyemi’s life trajectory...
July 20th 2021

Communicating about climate change: What’s politics got to do with it?

In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition. A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, assistant professor of statistics,...

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