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Dr. Sutherland sporting his PSU sweatshirt for the NYT article
April 21st 2023

Dr. Ivan Sutherland, ECE faculty member and tech pioneer, featured in NYT article

PSU at large, and the ECE Department have long appreciated how lucky we are...
PSU students in the Special Education dept. Orientation and Mobility program present research on distance learning to conference in Tampa, Florida.
April 17th 2023

Portland State University O&M research published in British Journal of Visual Impairment

The Orientation and Mobility (O&M) program at Portland State University’s...
The Neighborhood Story Project Tennessee Researchers
April 14th 2023

Enabling and Strengthening Vulnerable Communities

Neighborhoods change, either through gentrification, decreased property...
plaza
April 7th 2023

ECE News from Winter term

ECE faculty, alumni, and students concluded Winter term 2023 with some major...
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...
Photo of Bell Street in Seattle, WA, taking by Dongho Chang. The street is a welcoming pedestrian space that allows people to use the street with various transportation modes, not only cars.
March 30th 2023

PSU Transportation Students Envision "Living Streets," Car-Free Corridors for Downtown Portland

In the 1970's, Portland had a dream: to create a "pleasurable human environment"...
Photo of the LiDAR sensor installed on a pole, overlooking a street in Texas. The sensor is a small white box mounted to the top of a gray metal pole and attached by a black cord.
March 10th 2023

New LiDAR System Pinpoints Pedestrian Behavior to Improve Efficiency and Safety at Intersections

Pedestrian safety is critical to improving walkability in cities. To that...
PDXPLORES Podcast, Season 2, Episode 17
March 9th 2023

The People’s Social Epi Project: PDX with Ryan Petteway

In this episode of PDXPLORES, Ryan J. Petteway, Associate Professor at...
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...
Making mathematics equitable for all.
March 2nd 2023

Making Mathematics Accessible and Equitable For All Students

Defining mathematics is the motivation behind Professor Eva Thanheiser's...
hands of three students holding calculators
March 2nd 2023

Think you're good at math? PSU study shows it may be because you had equitable math teachers

A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they...
PDXPLORES Podcast, Season 2, Episode 16
February 28th 2023

21st Century Learning Ecosystem Opportunities: Research and Findings with Kathy Harris

In this episode of PDXPLORES, Kathy Harris, the Director of the Literacy,...