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A student team from the Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning at Portland State University (PSU) has won a 2018 American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Student Project Award in the category of Application of the Planning Process. This award program recognizes outstanding class...

Portland State University faculty have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help students transferring from community colleges to achieve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) degrees. More than half of the money will go to student scholarships. The...

Portland State University and the Graduate Employees Union representing about 800 teaching, research and administrative assistants have agreed to a tentative three-year contract. Shelly Chabon, vice provost for academic personnel and dean of undergraduate interdisciplinary general education,...

Portland State University announced that its admissions process won’t penalize high school students for participating in peaceful protest activities. Students who take part in protests like the March for Our Lives and the National School Walkout Day should not worry that these activities...

Though buses are constantly on the move, the drivers who operate them spend...

“The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology,” a 15-volume work of which Portland State University professor Heejun Chang was a co-author, has been awarded a prestigious CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries...

Living in the Pacific Northwest means living with the risk of disaster. Major fault lines and climate change-fueled weather scenarios mean that local governments need to operate with seismic, flood and other disaster plans in place. But...

Attracting a diverse generation of doctors, nurses and health professionals that reflects Portland’s increasingly diverse population is the aim of a new academic health scholarship created through a collaboration among Portland State University, Kaiser Permanente and Portland Leadership...

Kelly Clifton, Jaboa Lake and Gwen Shusterman speak on a panel moderated by Karen Marrongelle, far right. Progress has been made by women in science and engineering fields over the years, but gender bias and stereotypes often remain...

Businesses that provide Portland State University students real-world work experiences will build a more skilled and diverse workforce and launch students into meaningful careers, PSU President Rahmat Shoureshi told elected officials and business leaders Wednesday. President Shoureshi asked...

College and university student inventors are gearing up for a season of entrepreneurial competitions across the state of Oregon, culminating in the InventOR competition this June in Klamath Falls. Designed to increase the number of inventors and entrepreneurs across the state, InventOR challenges...

Low-income Oregonian college students transferring to Portland State University will no longer have to pay tuition beginning Fall 2018 if they are eligible for the federal Pell Grant and enroll full-time upon transferring. PSU’s new...