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The odds of an infant dying before their first birthday are higher in counties with greater proportions of conservative Protestants, especially fundamentalists, than in counties with more mainline Protestants and Catholics, according to a new Portland State University study. ...

Researchers at Portland State University have developed methods for measuring levels of free-base nicotine in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) liquids and vapor, the levels of which are associated with harshness upon inhalation of e-cigarette vapors and tobacco smoke. The study presents...

Portland State University recently received $250,000 from the National Science...

Birol A. Yeşilada, PhD, has been named the new Director of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University (PSU). Yeşilada is a professor of Political Science and International...

Portland State University researchers who published an article three years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine about the presence of previously undiscovered forms of formaldehyde in e-cigarette vapor revisited their research and found that formaldehyde risks were even higher than they...

While the Portland region will be entering its ninth consecutive year of economic expansion and jobs growth in the coming year, the overall pace of growth in Oregon’s biggest metropolitan region is finally slowing. This forecast of future economic conditions was published in a report released...

Older workers tend to feel more stress than younger workers when their employers don't provide them with the support and resources needed to do their jobs well, according to a new Portland State University study. The study, published...

It's rare for men who get married to change their last names — whether they take their wife's, adopt a hyphenated version or create a combination of the two. But those that do tend to be less educated, according to a new Portland State University study. ...

Portland, OR—The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is partnering with local colleges, community groups and government agencies to determine more precisely what’s in diesel exhaust and identify Portland areas most vulnerable to diesel pollution. The U.S. Environmental Protection...

Luis Balderas Villagrana (left), 21, a “Dreamer” who is the first in his family to go to college, was elected president of ASPSU on May 4. His one-year term, and that of his new vice president, Lelani Lealiiee, starts June 1. Villagrana’s...

Bashar Al-Daomi with the Bio CleanTech device It was while crossing the polluted Diyala River on his commute to high school in Baghdad that Bashar Al-Daomi first realized what happens when untreated waste water gets dumped into waterways....

Portland State University Graduate School of Education Dean Marvin Lynn has been appointed as a director of The Educator Advancement Council (EAC), a brand new advisory group representing Oregon educators and community leaders. Following two years of efforts by the Governor’s Council...