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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...
protest
December 7th 2020

Cluster hire in School of Gender, Race and Nations represents transformative moment in PSU's history

Portland was thrust into the national spotlight this summer for its nightly...
Derek Ott and Dave Ott flanking Victor E. Viking in the bleachers at a football game
December 4th 2020

'PSU gave him a purpose'

Even in his last hours as he neared the end of a long illness, Derek Ott...
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...
Tanya Sydorenko
December 2nd 2020

Tanya Sydorenko and Phoebe Daurio co-author article in Computer Assisted Language Learning journal

Tetyana Sydorenko, applied linguistics, and Phoebe Daurio, Intensive English...
Department of Applied Linguistics Faculty
December 2nd 2020

Applied Linguistics faculty co-edit "The Cambridge Introduction to Applied Linguistics" published by Cambridge University Press

Susan Conrad, Alissa Hartig, and Lynn Santelmann, Applied Linguistics faculty,...