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This book grew out of our previous title, Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas, in which we concentrated exclusively on the city where we live. After finishing the book, people asked us if there would be a sequel. Maybe another book about Portland? Or possibly one about other cities? We decided...

Andrew G. Fountain (professor emeritus) and Bryce Glenn (M.S. 2020) are updating the glacier inventory for the western US, exclusive of Alaska, for the US Forest Service. The current glacier outlines on the USGS topographic maps are often decades out of date. Counting features equal to or...

Professor Heejun Chang returned from Sabbatical in Spring 2020 when the pandemic just started. Sponsored by the Abe Fellowship Program administered by the Social Science Research Council, he spent four months at the University of Tokyo's Center for Spatial Information Science as a visiting...

Portland’s Harriet Tubman Middle School sits right next to I-5 and may...

Arun Pallathadka, EES PhD student (advisors Heejun Chang and Jola Ajibade), received summer research funding titled “Managed Retreat Efforts in Portland, Oregon, and Atlanta, Georgia” from the 2021 Graduate Grant program with the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network...

Publications: Cantor, Alida and A. Ross. (Book coming in Fall 2021). “Urbanization and water governance dynamics in Bend and Hood River, Oregon.” In Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice, eds. Nik Janos and Corina McKendry. University of Washington Press. Cantor,...

Chang, H., Pallathadka, A., Sauer, J., Grimm, N., Zimmerman, R., Cheng, C., Iwaniec, D., Kim, Y., Lloyd, R., McPhearson, T., Rosenzweig, B., Troxler, T., Welty, C., Brenner, R., Herreros-Cantis, P. (2021) Assessment of Urban Flood Vulnerability Using the Social-Ecological-Technological Systems...

The newly published multi-year study on automated transit fare collection...

Dr. Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD, has been appointed the Associate Dean for...

Teachers' biases, whether intentional or not, can impact students' learning...

Last month, Portland State University announced the 2021 awards for faculty...

Last month, Portland State University announced the 2021 awards for faculty...