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CTC Team Community Recycling Park

July 24th 2023

Community Recycling Park: A Vision for a Community Upcycling Hub

An old shampoo bottle. A flattened cereal box. An empty glass jar of pickles....

CTC Team Fungivores

July 24th 2023

Fungivores: Creating Synergy Between Nature and the Built Environment

As graduate level architecture students at Portland State University, Sarah...

CTC Team Copiosus

July 24th 2023

Copiosus: Symbiotic and Sustainable Food Growth for the Future

Growing food in traditional ways has become increasingly more difficult,...

CTC Team Precision Organics

July 24th 2023

Precision Organics: Replacing Styrofoam with Biodegradable Mushroom Plastic

Our planet is covered in plastics that take thousands of years to decompose...

CTC Team Pomona

July 24th 2023

Pomona: Convenience and Connection for Plant-based, Sustainable Living

Imagine a one-stop social platform that provides information and support...

CTC Team Cycle Charge Plus

July 24th 2023

Cycle Charge +: Using Kinetic Energy to Power Your Device

Have you ever woken up to a completely dead phone, realizing you forgot to...

Electric cars charging

June 28th 2023

Push to green energy is not without consequences, PSU prof explores

From a proposed lithium mine near the Oregon-Nevada border to a proposed...

People gather for salmon bake in front of ITECK Center

June 27th 2023

PSU ITECK Center is official with building name change

Portland State’s Harrison Street Building has a new name — PSU ITECK...

Panelists at Future Ready Oregon Conference

June 9th 2023

PSU’s ‘Future Ready Oregon’ conference puts climate, Indigenous values at center of workforce development

Portland State brought together dozens of regional workforce, community and...

Hacienda CDC's main office in Portland's Cully neighborhood (Courtesy of Hacienda CDC)

April 5th 2023

Teaming up for greater impact: Hacienda CDC and PSU

Since Ernesto Fonseca took the helm of Hacienda CDC in 2017, the Latino community...

Map showing high temperatures (red) across the western U.S. during the heatwave

March 8th 2023

PSU study: Everything was stronger in that deadly June 2021 PNW heatwave

What was different about the deadly, record-breaking heat wave in June 2...

digital drawing of a brown bat with its wings wide against a forested green background

February 23rd 2023

Portland State graduate student identifies new species of bat in Cameroon

Portland State graduate student Amanda Grunwald made an exciting discovery...