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Christof Teuscher starts out on Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at the US/Canadian border. As an engineering professor at Portland State, Christof Teuscher’s day job involves teaching students how to design smaller and more efficient computer chip...

A Portland State University professor recently received a $350,000 federal...

Danny Barnes Trio, Photo by NashCO Photo Can a music festival stage make a lasting contribution to a community in need? Can a temporary structure be just as transformative as a permanent building? In the latest installment of a six-year...

Portland State University this fall will begin offering the state's first bachelor's degree in Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies, an effort years in the making. The Indigenous Nations Studies program, which is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' School of Gender,...

Approximately 102 million Americans work in the service industry, according to the Pew Research Center, filling critical positions in restaurants, salons and transportation. In many cases, these jobs offer base pay at rates up to 71 percent lower than federal minimum wage, with the expectation...

"Orange is the New Black," the hit Netflix prison comedy-drama, has drawn both praise and criticism for its depiction of women inmates at a fictional federal prison. A new book from a Portland State University professor uses the popular series as a starting point to offer a more realistic...

A Portland State University professor has received a $3.3 million federal grant to study the impact of an early-learning program aimed at improving children's readiness for kindergarten and later grades. PSU College of Liberal Arts and...

Beginning today Portland State University students may ride Portland’s iconic bright orange BIKETOWN bikes for free. Thanks to a new agreement between PSU and BIKETOWN, Portland’s bike share program, current Portland State students may now ride any available BIKETOWN bike up to 90-minutes...

A new Portland State University study shows that even though water quality has improved in South Korea's Han River basin since the 1990s, there are still higher-than-acceptable levels of pollutants in some of the more urbanized regions in and around the capital Seoul. ...

The drone whirred to life, then shot skyward for a bird's-eye view of an upland prairie habitat in Cooper Mountain Nature Park just outside Beaverton. Equipped with a camera, the small white drone buzzed overhead, snapping photos of the...

Lisa K. Bates, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, has been selected as the Portland Professor in Innovative Housing Policy, as announced today by Stephen L. Percy, Dean of the College of Urban...

Dear Campus Community, I would like to update you on developments following Friday’s officer-involved shooting. First, however, I want to express my deepest sympathies to the family of Mr. Washington and to all others impacted. The ongoing investigation by the Portland Police Bureau limits...