NEWS

Bendable displays

February 1st 2021

Magwire: improving flexible displays

Portland startup Magwire Inc. is a solutions-based nanotechnology company...

Illustration of tree and DNA

January 26th 2021

A PSU study seeks to explore new horizons of plant evolution

A team of researchers led by Portland State biology professor Mitch Cruzan...

A cyclist a light

January 22nd 2021

Portland State Researchers Will Help Develop Guidance to Reduce Conflicts Between Drivers and Bicyclists at Intersections

Subcontract: NCHRP 15-73 Design Options to Reduce Turning Motor Vehicle...

Assistant Professor John Lipor

January 15th 2021

Electrical Engineering professor receives 2021 NSF CAREER Award

Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science faculty member receives...

Seal swimming in water

January 8th 2021

Nature-based engineering

Can seal whiskers help us design better wind and solar farms, suspension...

January 4th 2021

New Water Science Grantees Announced by the USGS-PSU Partnership (UPP)

Andrés Holz, PSU (top left), Tess Harden (bottom left), Jennifer Morace, USGS (top right), Olyssa Starry (bottom right). The USGS-PSU Partnership (UPP) has announced two research funding awards for the 2020 Seed Grant Program. These...

20 mph speed limit sign

December 29th 2020

EFFECT OF RESIDENTIAL STREET SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION FROM 25 TO 20 MI/HR ON DRIVING SPEEDS IN PORTLAND, OREGON

In 2015, the City of Portland adopted Vision Zero's objective of eliminating...

Portland State University

December 16th 2020

PSU researchers among top in the world

A new study published in PLOS Biology Journal lists Portland State researchers...

Smoke and fire billowing in the sky and burned trees

December 14th 2020

Oregon's Western Cascades watershed to experience larger, more frequent fires, PSU study finds

The Clackamas Basin rarely experiences the intense fire activity that burned...

December 10th 2020

The Lemelson Foundation Pledges $1 Million to the Invent Oregon Collegiate Challenge

Portland State University announced today that The Lemelson Foundation...

December 10th 2020

Celebrating Graduate Student Success: Tendai Mafireyi

Chemistry Ph.D. student Tendai Mafireyi Tendai Mafireyi, a Ph.D. student in chemistry professor Robert Strongin's lab, was recently honored by being named the Top Chemistry Graduate Student at the Sigma Xi 2020 Annual Meeting and Student...

Adult Literacy and Learning: What Does Analysis on Critical Race Theory Reveal?"

December 7th 2020

Kathy Harris and Gloria Jacobs from the Literacy, Language, and Technology Research group in the Department of Applied Linguistics and colleagues present at recent Literacy Research Association virtual conference

Kathy Harris and Gloria Jacobs from the Literacy, Language, and Technology...