Department of Sociology

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January 5th 2024

CLAS Grad Student Accolades: Publications for 2023

Christopher Aagaard (Mathematical Sciences Ph.D.) co-authored a submitted...
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January 5th 2024

CLAS Grad Student Accolades: Awards & Grants for 2023

Angelica Chan (Speech and Hearing Sciences MS) was awarded a position in...
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January 5th 2024

CLAS Grad Student Accolades: Community Engagement & Career Progression for 2023

Natalie Cholula (Sociology Ph.D.) is a member of the Evicted in Oregon research...
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November 16th 2023

25 PSU Faculty Members Ranked Among Most-Cited Science Researchers in 2022

25 PSU faculty members were ranked among the top 100,000 most-cited science...
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March 2nd 2023

Think you're good at math? PSU study shows it may be because you had equitable math teachers

A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they...
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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...
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February 7th 2022

PSU study challenges idea that college degree is still the great equalizer

A college degree has long been touted as the great equalizer in our country,...
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December 6th 2021

Parents can influence children's choice and success in STEM major, PSU study finds

If one of your parents majored in a STEM (science, technology, engineering...
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August 16th 2021

Transformative Transportation Survey Methods: Enhancing Household Transportation Survey Methods

"Transformative Transportation Survey Methods: Enhancing Household Transportation...
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July 20th 2021

Calling All Transit Riders: Photos Wanted for Research Study

Research demonstrates that marginalized populations experience significant...
July 6th 2021

With NSF grant, PSU to do internal deep dive to identify systemic inequalities among STEM faculty

The numbers don't lie: Women and minorities have historically, and continue to be, underrepresented in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and it's no different at Portland State. Beyond the numbers is a more complicated picture of why some faculty stay...
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April 19th 2021

PSU study challenges idea that students with cognitive disabilities can't be in STEM

A new Portland State study challenges the idea that youth with cognitive...