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DesignMedix Inc., a drug development company targeting drug resistant infectious diseases, has entered into an agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will pave the way for first-in-human clinical trials of DesignMedix’s malaria drug DM1157. The agreement is with the...

Leroy E. Bynum, Jr. — an accomplished opera singer and dean at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY — has been named the new dean of Portland State University’s College of the Arts. Bynum will begin at PSU this summer. He replaces...

Marvin Lynn, professor and dean of the School of Education at Indiana University South Bend and an internationally recognized expert on race and education, has been named dean of Portland State University’s Graduate School of Education....

Portland State University researchers have found that only about half the genes in a specific virus affecting single cell organisms is needed to infect a host. This means the virus can undergo major mutations without losing its ability to survive and infect. The research, headed by PSU...

Portland’s three largest public colleges are teaming up with the City of Portland to build a new $100 million education and health center in the heart of Portland State University’s downtown campus. The historic project will turn...

Portland State faces a difficult challenge balancing the university budget in 2017-18 unless state support increases during legislative deliberations this spring, administrators told a campus forum of faculty, staff and students Thursday. President Wim Wiewel and PSU Budget Director Andria...

Portland State University scientists have found that significant levels of cancer-causing benzene in e-cigarette vapors can form when the devices are operated at high power. The finding by a research team headed by chemistry professor James F. Pankow were published March 8 in the online...

Portland State University Sociology professor Dara Shifrer has received an $877,836 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects race, poverty and disabilities may have on American students’ success in STEM education and careers. The five-year grant will allow Shifrer’s...

Portland’s newest residents are more diverse than the region as a whole, except when it comes to African Americans, according to a new study from Portland State University. PSU College of Urban and Public Affairs researchers Jason Jurjevich, Greg Schrock and Jihye Kang found 38 percent...

A group of students from the Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP)...

People living outside in Portland struggle to meet their basic hygiene and health needs because of a shortage of showers, bathrooms and washers and dryers, a Portland State University survey found. One possible solution: a community hygiene center that is open all day, every day. Lisa...

This week the White House rescinded recommendations the Obama administration sent to schools nationwide to provide gender-inclusive facilities and not regulate the restrooms students use. The new directive gives states the right to make their own determinations on the issue. The state of...