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Portland State University has partnered with Barnes & Noble LoudCloud to develop a personalized web tool that will allow students to chart their pathway to graduation, track progress, understand the impact of their choices on financial aid and adjust plans if they change majors. “We...

Two teams of student inventors head to Bend this week to pitch alongside industry entrepreneurs at a startup investment conference that invests nearly $4 million annually in promising companies. These students will join more than 450 top entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders for...

Oregon shore crabs exhibit risky behavior when they’re exposed to the antidepressant Prozac, making it easier for predators to catch them, according to a new study from Portland State University (PSU). The study, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, illustrates how concentrations...

What does your brain look like on homelessness? Homeless youth were given a chance to answer that question through an art project called Homelessness and the Brain, organized by NW Noggin, and their works will be on display Thursday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 338 NW 6th Ave. in...

Former Portland State University football player Dennis Beetham and his wife Janet Beetham have donated $2 million to support scholarships for PSU science students and to create a permanent Portland State Athletics Hall of Fame exhibit. “We are honored by this philanthropic investment...

Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley vowed to fight proposed Trump administration rules that would make it tougher to punish perpetrators of campus sexual assault during a meeting with Portland State leaders on Monday. The proposals by Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would...

The skillful coupling of chemistry and art by Portland State University professor Tami Lasseter Clare has helped save valuable pieces of artwork from being lost to peeling, flaking, fading and cracking. Clare’s use of cutting-edge conservation science to preserve fine art recently led...

Portland State University President Rahmat Shoureshi on Friday appointed Professor Jennifer Dill as interim Vice President for Research overseeing research activity across the university. Dr. Dill is professor in the Nohad A. Toulan...

Nearly 300 aquatic species have landed on American shores since the 2011 Japanese tsunami by hitching rides on manmade debris, according to a team of researchers from Portland State University and other institutions. Their findings about long-distance life rafting on debris and its impact...

Researchers at Portland State University found benzene and other potentially cancer-causing chemicals in the vapor produced by butane hash oil, a cannabis extract. Their study raises health concerns about dabbing, or vaporizing hash oil – a practice that is growing in popularity, especially...

Team members (from left) Luis Castro, Lorenzo Alvarez, Saul Martinez, Tyler Hull and Cristofer Flores. As a result of their innovative plastic recycling invention, a team of four McKay High School students from Salem, Ore. and one from...

Rahmat Shoureshi outlined his priorities as Portland State University’s new president in a convocation address to faculty, stressing collaboration across disciplines and across the campus as keys to elevating PSU to become the top college choice for Oregonians. “No other Oregon university...