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Anita Vermilya (center) at the graduation ceremony. Two Portland State campus public safety office dispatchers graduated from the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training’s (DPSST) 111th Basic Telecommunications Class...

A Portland State University math professor has received a portion of a $2 million grant to refine and study whether a new tool can help math teachers be more effective in the classroom. The project, "Using Technology to Capture Classroom Interactions (UTCCI): The Design, Validation and...

Researchers at Portland State University and Oregon State University looking at the aftermath of wildfires in southwestern Oregon and northern California found that after 20 years, even in severely burned areas, Douglas-fir grew back on its own without the need for salvage logging and replanting....

College and university students hailing from institutions from all corners or Oregon are assembling teams and fine-tuning ideas that solve pressing problems in their communities. Those ideas will eventually turn into prototypes — and, ultimately, into products. The state’s only invention...

Dear PSU Community, During the past week, we have been witness to multiple acts of violence and hatred across the United States. First and foremost, our hearts go out to the families of those who were killed in the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and to the entire congregation of the...

Portland State University today announced the largest fundraising campaign in its history, with the goal of raising $300 million in philanthropic contributions by 2021. “Let Knowledge Serve: the Campaign for PSU” focuses on four key areas: supporting students, empowering faculty, enhancing...

The new 2018 OHSU-PSU Collaborative Seed Grant program is bringing PSU and OHSU researchers together to investigate a range of pressing concerns in the fields of health and safety, from burnout and suicidal behavior among adults with autism to innovative methods for identifying structural...

PSU students meet with a farmer in Cambodia as part of a social enterprise field study exploring rural entrepreneurship. As a leader in social innovation education worldwide, Portland State University has once again been named an Ashoka...

Researchers from Portland State University and the Oregon Department of Geology...

A heat-mapping study of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore by Portland State University researchers show that some of the most famous buildings in the nation’s capital – The White House, U.S. Capital and The Pentagon – are located in...

With the help of a federal grant, a Portland State University professor is trying to make it faster and easier to diagnose an increasingly common language disorder known as anomia. Gerasimos Fergadiotis, a speech-language pathologist in PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Steven...

Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and the recent discovery of thawing permafrost, thinning glaciers and melting ground ice by a Portland State University-led research team are signs that rapid and widespread change could be...