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March 12th 2025

Portland State University Celebrates Henna’s Acceptance into the USC and Techstars Digital Economy Program

Henna, a Techstars portfolio company and a startup with deep ties to Portland...

February 26th 2025

PSU professor honored as ‘emerging inventor’ by national academy

A Portland State chemistry professor is being recognized as an emerging inventor...

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February 26th 2025

Learning Beyond Labels: How Social Factors Impact Student Success

When researchers study why some students perform differently in school, they...

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February 25th 2025

Oregon’s Urban Research Leader

From the Cascades to the coast, small towns to downtowns, Portland State...

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February 20th 2025

What's New in the Hatfield School of Government

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Friends of...

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February 20th 2025

PSU Will Work With Oregon Department of Transportation to Advance Safety At Intersections

Can changing the timing of traffic signals improve pedestrian safety? Portland...

Yumei Wang studies liquefaction in Japan.

February 17th 2025

PSU helps Portland Prepare for The Big One

When Franz Rad came to teach at Portland State University in 1971, scientists...

Participants in a September 2024 Mentoring Academy training workshop

February 12th 2025

Portland State Mentoring Academy Helps Students and Faculty Navigate Professional Relationships

In higher education and the workplace, whether you know it or not, you are...

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February 4th 2025

The School of Business Accounting Department ranks high in Brigham Young University (BYU) Database of Research Productivity

Each year, Brigham Young University (BYU) publishes a database of research...

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January 27th 2025

"Elements and Relations" Offers An Accessible Introduction to Systems Science

A 2023 book by Martin Zwick, a professor in Portland State University's College...

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January 27th 2025

It's Raining Microchips: PSU Researcher Works To Expand Environmental Sensing Capabilities

In 2020, while looking at data from a local air quality sensor, Assistant...

A man crosses the street at a striped, midblock crosswalk.

January 22nd 2025

PSU Researchers To Develop Guide for the Design, Spacing, and Placement of Marked Crosswalks

Pedestrians are unlikely to use a marked crosswalk if it is too far out of...