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Shakespeare portrait with “Shakespeare’s First Folio: 1623-2023”
October 16th 2023

‘Let Shakespeare serve the city’: PSU and partnering arts organizations celebrate 400 years of the Bard

There will be much ado about Shakespeare this year at Portland State and...
Students doing homework at the Pacific Islander, Asian and Asian American (PIAAA) Student Center
October 4th 2023

PSU nets $2 million to expand support for Asian American and Pacific Islander students

Portland State has been awarded a nearly $2 million federal grant to expand...
Aerial image of glacier
September 25th 2023

Glaciers becoming smaller and disappearing, PSU inventory finds

The Western United States is losing its glaciers. A new inventory from Portland...
A storm
September 21st 2023

PSU study examines how weather patterns will change in the future

In a warming Pacific Northwest, summers are getting hotter and winters less...
Thomas Kindermann
September 5th 2023

Memorial Service Planned for PSU Professor Thomas Kindermann

After 34 years at Portland State University, Herr Professor Doktor Thomas...
Spring presented
August 4th 2023

Currently Accolades: Presented for August 7, 2023

Daniel Jaffee, Sociology faculty, presented a paper titled “Bottled Water,...
2023 Cherry Hill stage at Pickathon, created by PSU Architecture students
August 2nd 2023

Pickathon features elegant new stage created by PSU architecture students

This weekend’s Pickathon music festival (August 3 - 6, 2023, at Pendarvis...
Electric cars charging
June 28th 2023

Push to green energy is not without consequences, PSU prof explores

From a proposed lithium mine near the Oregon-Nevada border to a proposed...
Mount St. Helens
June 28th 2023

New research shows climate change will increase impacts of volcanic eruptions

Volcanic disasters have been studied since Pompeii was buried in 79 A.D.,...
Spring published
June 6th 2023

Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for June 5, 2023

Brady Firth, Business faculty, published the paper “For Better and Worse:...
Spring published
June 1st 2023

Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for June 5, 2023

Brady Firth, Business faculty, published the paper “For Better and Worse:...
Map showing high temperatures (red) across the western U.S. during the heatwave
March 8th 2023

PSU study: Everything was stronger in that deadly June 2021 PNW heatwave

What was different about the deadly, record-breaking heat wave in June 2...