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Portland State University, in partnership with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), will open a section of SW Montgomery Street in May to pedestrians only as part the Montgomery Pop-Up Plaza pilot project, which will help officials determine whether to permanently close the block...

"Anthropocene," a new sculpture designed by Assistant Professor Aaron Whelton with the contributions of architecture students Jonathon Brearley, Griffin Lutz, Kip Olkowski, Molly Jacobs, and Kagan Reardon, was unveiled on the PSU campus...

Despite popular belief that green roofs – roofs that are planted with...

A student at work in a PSU engineering lab. Grants over the last fiscal year paid for $2.5 million in graduate assistantships and $1.4 million in student wages. Photo by NashCo Photography. Nearly 47 percent of the $60.3 million that...

For the entire month of May, the section of S.W. Montgomery St. between 6th...

With e-scooters returning to Portland as early as April 26, Jennifer Dill is thinking about the gender gap. Dill, director of Portland State University's Transportation Research and Education Center, analyzed data from the last time Portland had a plethora of e-scooters on its city streets...

The sit-in campaigns organized at southern lunch counters in the 1960s weren’t about getting a hamburger, Rev. James Lawson told Portland State University students Wednesday night, but about starting a nonviolent movement for change. Nonviolence, and...

Archaeologists analyzing the remains uncovered from an ancient Native American village in present-day Port Angeles, Washington, found evidence that the village was hit by as many as five tsunamis. A team of researchers from Portland State University, Western Washington University and the...

Portland State University announced its undergraduate honor rolls for winter term 2019. There are two PSU honor roll lists: the President's List and Dean's List. Criteria for each are as follows: President's List Undergraduate students...

“I’m pretty bullheaded, and I really wanted to go to college,” says Tara Prevo (left), 29, a junior engineering student who transferred to Portland State from Portland Community College in order to be the first in her family to get a college degree. Transfer students are a big part...

Portland State University has been named one of 10 Frontier Universities nationwide by the Thriving Cities Lab. The designation was announced in the "Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships," which was developed based on research conducted by the Thriving Cities Lab, a research...

Six teams of Portland State University computer science students huddled around their laptops on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Vacasa’s downtown office. Fueled by pizza and La Croix, these 25 students were plugging away at the same task: design a solution to an important issue facing Portland....