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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...
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...
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,...
Instructor and students pulling weeds from garden
November 16th 2020

PSU, NAYA collaboration seeks to advance Native student success

At Portland State, Native Americans make up just 1% of the student body,...
Pencil on top of a scantron
November 12th 2020

Teacher quality scores change depending on students, school, PSU study finds

School districts across the U.S. are increasingly using student test scores...
Mathematics
October 6th 2020

What is in a Number?

For most, mathematics education begins in elementary school. Students...
Oregon map on chalkboard
September 29th 2020

Bringing the geography of Oregon into the classroom

For many people, geography is what you see on a map. It’s true that maps...
Graduate wearing cap and gown speaks to peers at ceremony
July 2nd 2019

A new chance for incarcerated PSU student who earns bachelor's degree

Ezequiel is a different person from the troubled teenager who entered prison...