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Rendering of second floor of Vernier Science Center
January 27th 2023

Portland State to use $224K grant to boost career training for climate jobs

Portland State will leverage a $224,000 state grant to create a career center...
Screenshot of a telepractice stuttering session with a patient and two grad student clinicians
January 3rd 2023

PSU clinic helps stutterers across Oregon's urban-rural divide

Megann McGill was doing tele-health before it was cool. Since 2017 — long...
Axcelle Campana poses with award, with trees in backdrop
December 5th 2022

PSU student wins $100K environmental prize

A Portland State graduate student whose work focuses on the inequities in...
Student with pink hair playing flute
October 25th 2022

Music class in sync with higher math scores — but only at higher-income schools, PSU study finds

Music and arts classes are often first on the chopping block when schools...
A photo of Portland State University's campus, with a light pole in the foreground with a logo banner mounted on it.
October 18th 2022

Portland State University Awarded $2.4 Million to Respond to Oregon’s Workforce Shortage

The Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) is awarding Portland...
PSU's Oak Savanna
September 30th 2022

Renowned Australian architect to visit PSU, kicking off year-long project to design Indigenous center on campus oak savanna

A renowned Indigenous architect from Australia will be visiting Portland...
Professor talking in front of classroom
August 26th 2022

PSU-led project to overhaul biology ed will impact thousands of undergrads, future faculty

A Portland State University researcher says an overhaul of biology education...
Man on laptop in front of high-performance computing cluster
June 9th 2022

PSU secures $2.1M grant to expand data-driven research, training

As employers clamor for more data scientists and industrial and government...
Four students on a couch smiling
May 31st 2022

Push for Pacific Islander and Asian American Studies at PSU makes gains

Eli Vossler will graduate from Portland State this June with a bachelor's...
May 19th 2022

Mainstage kabuki returns to Portland State this spring

The sounds of traditional Japanese percussion and stringed instruments fill the rehearsal room in Lincoln Hall as kimono-clad students gracefully dance together. With each deliberate step, they embody the beauty and poise of an 18th century courtesan. They still have a few more days to...
Professor in costume in Japanese stage production
April 28th 2022

PSU professor receives prestigious imperial award from Japan

A Portland State professor has been awarded one of Japan's highest honors...
People talking around a table with different building material samples
February 11th 2022

Student voices centered in design of renovated science building

Malcolm Peavy, a senior biology major, tends to avoid Science Building 1...