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SweetSense, Inc., a Portland State University spinoff company that helps bring clean drinking water rural areas in developing countries, has been awarded the second phase of a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will help pay for technology improvements...

The city of Portland is enjoying a revival of sorts, with more than a million people expected to move to the area in the next ten years. The School of Business at Portland State University — while already a highly respected, accredited...

For the third year in a row, Portland State University has been ranked among the 10 most innovative universities by U.S. News & World Report. Alongside institutions like Stanford, Harvard and Duke universities, PSU was highlighted for being a school that the public should be watching because...

Ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will have serious consequences for our students at Portland State University. These DACA students known as “dreamers,” came to Oregon as children of undocumented parents. The federal program, which is renewable every two...

Portland State’s Viking Pavilion project continues to progress with...

Students and staff in PSU's Queer Resource Center A national nonprofit working to make college campuses safer for LGBT students has ranked Portland State University among the top 25 LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities in the U.S....

Portland State researchers studying centuries-old trees in South America have found a tight correlation between wildfires and a warm weather fluctuation that has become more frequent in recent decades – and will continue to be more frequent as the climate warms. PSU geography professor...

History student Madelyn Miller researched, wrote, and posted several tree stories on Canopy Story. Portland State researchers have launched a new website that pinpoints trees in Portland and connects them with historic events, family...

The State Legislature recently approved $51 million in bonds to fund an education and health center that will house city offices and Portland’s three largest public colleges on Portland State University’s downtown campus. The $100-million building will be home to the PSU Graduate School...

A new study by scientists at Portland State University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that the effects of climate change, which are apparent in other parts of the Antarctic continent, are not yet observed for glaciers in the...

Portland State University researchers and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publically released high-resolution maps of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a globally unique Antarctic polar desert. The PSU scientists led a team of researchers supported by the NSF to map the area using LIDAR...

The Portland State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to lower the tuition increase in the fall for Oregon students thanks to the additional funding for higher education approved by the Legislature and Gov. Kate Brown. Annual tuition for full-time resident undergraduates...