NEWS

Research co-authored by Portland State University finance professor Jing Zhao found that the religious beliefs of the population in counties where hedge funds are headquartered influence the riskiness of hedge fund managers’ portfolios. The findings, published in a recent issue of the...

Portland State University will join seven other universities in forming a research center for brain-inspired computing – a set of technologies that has the potential to enable computers to do tasks that, as of now, are uniquely human. The center will be headed by Purdue University in...

Dan Heiman, a new assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education, has won an outstanding dissertation award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for his work in bilingual education. AERA has invited Heiman...

Molly Baustien Siuty, a new assistant professor in Portland State University’s Graduate School of Education, has won the 2018 outstanding dissertation award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). She...

The college financial aid process ignores the cultural needs of minority students, causing many of them to not receive adequate financial aid and dropping out because they’ve run out of money, according to a Portland State University study. PSU School of Business instructor Brenda Eichelberger...

Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. They might also exist in space, but as of yet scientists have done almost no research into this possibility. Portland State University biology professor Ken Stedman and colleagues are trying to...

The staff in University Communications has won eight awards, including six gold medals, from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for excellence in communications and marketing in 2017. CASE is the largest higher education advocacy organization in North America. CASE Region...

Portland State University students, staff and programs will benefit from the generosity of The Standard’s annual employee giving campaign. “The Employee Giving Campaign is an extension of what our business does every day: helping people when they need it most,” said Greg Ness (MBA...

The Raymond L. Lindeman Award honors a young scientist for an outstanding peer-reviewed, English-language paper in the aquatic sciences. The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has awarded Dr. Meredith Holgerson...

Maeve Stier and Luke Smith With charming ingenuity, Portland State Opera created the atmosphere of a fin de siecle Parisian salon and topped it off with fine and spirited production on Friday evening (December 1) of Pauline Viardot’s...

Donnell Tanksley, campus safety/campus police chief. In a brief ceremony Wednesday on campus, Donnell Tanksley was sworn in as Portland State University’s new campus safety/campus police chief. PSU President Rahmat Shoureshi welcomed...

A grant to Portland State from Meyer Memorial Trust will allow Oregon MESA to double the number of schools offering its science, technology, engineering and math programs (STEM) to low-income and minority students in the Portland and Salem metro areas. Oregon MESA, housed in Portland State...