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Ray and Maria Stata Center on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
December 9th 2021

Study: sharing office space increases collaboration among researchers

A new study published in Plos One and co-authored by researchers at the...
Students attending KickStart are seated at tables listening to a program presentation.
December 8th 2021

KickStart Weekend: From Ideation to Product Development

KickStart Weekend, a two day event held at Portland State University (PSU),...
Graduate Student Alexandra Tissot
December 8th 2021

Long-term exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of pesticides has deleterious effects on shellfish

According to a study recently published in the journal Science of the...
Students in a science lab
December 6th 2021

Parents can influence children's choice and success in STEM major, PSU study finds

If one of your parents majored in a STEM (science, technology, engineering...
A young girl on a bicycle wearing a pink helmet approaches a green-striped "cross-bike" and a man next to her, jogging, approaches the white-striped crosswalk next to it.
November 18th 2021

PSU Masters Student Frank Boateng Appiah Works to Improve Bicycle Crossings at Unsignalized Intersections

An increasing trend in the number of bicycle crashes in the U.S since 20...
A cyclist crosses at a green crosswalk
November 16th 2021

PSU Masters Student Frank Boateng Appiah Works to Improve Bicycle Crossings at Unsignalized Intersections

We're proud to announce the publication of a new masters thesis in civil...
Indoor air filter
November 16th 2021

Portland State team wins EPA's Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge

A team of current and former PSU engineering students was one of just...
November 15th 2021

Susan Conrad published a chapter in the edited volume The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research

Susan Conrad, Applied Linguistics, published a chapter entitled "Integrating Corpus Linguistics into Writing Studies: An Example from Engineering" in the edited volume The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research (Peter Lang).
Plum tree
November 10th 2021

New grant aims to reduce food waste in East Portland by providing fresh fruit to residents in low-income, multifamily properties

Portland State University's Community Environmental Services (CES) unit,...
A man with a cane and a guide dog cross a pedestrian crosswalk.
November 4th 2021

Wayfinding Tools for People With Visual Impairments in Real-World Settings: A Literature Review

Researchers Amy Parker, Martin Swobodzinski, Julie Wright, Kyrsten Hansen...
The interior of a MAX train in Portland, Oregon showing seats and spaces for people to put their bicycles on the train.
November 4th 2021

New Mobility For All: Bringing Emerging Transportation Options to Underserved Communities

Low-income residents, immigrants, seniors, and people with disabilities –...
Image of a computer book.
October 28th 2021

41 Portland State faculty members ranked among the highest cited researchers in the world in 2020

New data published on Elsevier’s website highlights the impact of research...