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May 24th 2024

Education behind bars

A DREAM COME TRUE The effort has been years in the making with Walidah Imarisha,...
2024 Student Employment Award Winners
April 22nd 2024

PSU Honors Winners of the 2024 Student Employment Awards

On Friday, April 19, the winners of the 2024 PSU Student Employment Awards...
Portland State University Day of Giving
April 3rd 2024

Help Our Students Thrive: Join CLAS for PSU’s Spring Day of Giving on April 17

PSU's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) is excited to participate...
Professor and students in chemistry lab
March 7th 2024

PSU researchers named to National Academy of Inventors

Three Portland State professors are being recognized by the National Academy...
Students and professors in class
February 16th 2024

‘Build as We Fight’: Mellon grant will help PSU reimagine social justice in Pacific Northwest

Portland State’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies — one of the oldest...
a group of students sitting in a circle
November 7th 2023

Hands on in the community: PSU trains tomorrow’s behavioral health professionals

As Oregon continues to experience challenges ranging from the post-pandemic...
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...
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August 15th 2023

PSU Social Work Alum Opens Forest Bathing Therapy Practice

Forest bathing has long been touted as a method of promoting healing and...
Panelists at Future Ready Oregon Conference
June 9th 2023

PSU’s ‘Future Ready Oregon’ conference puts climate, Indigenous values at center of workforce development

Portland State brought together dozens of regional workforce, community and...
Group photo of 2023 Student Employment Awards winners holding their certificates
April 19th 2023

PSU Honors Winners of the 2023 Student Employment Awards

On Friday, April 14, for the first time since 2019, the winners of the PSU...
Kris Carico standing in the Park Blocks on PSU campus
April 12th 2023

PSU alumna improves neighborhoods and natural areas with litter clean-up projects

When Kris Carico talks trash, entire communities benefit. A ’97 PSU alumna...
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February 6th 2023

Grant makes exploratory trips to Vietnam, Hawaii possible for PIAA Studies

A multidisciplinary group of Portland State faculty and community partners...