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January 11th 2021

PSU, community partners honor legacy of MLK with virtual events

A series of virtual campus and community events honoring the legacy of Rev....

December 7th 2020

PSU launches a national cohort of Social Work Health Futures Fellows

Portland State University School of Social Work has launched a national cohort...

December 7th 2020

Cluster hire in School of Gender, Race and Nations represents transformative moment in PSU's history

Portland was thrust into the national spotlight this summer for its nightly...

Inmates sewing garments at sewing machines.

December 3rd 2020

Mass incarceration results in significant increases in industrial emissions, PSU study finds

Mass incarceration is as much an environmental problem as it is a social...

December 2nd 2020

Kathy Harris, Research faculty in Applied Linguistics with the Literacy, Language, and Technology Research group partnered with the School of Public Health

Kathy Harris, Research faculty in Applied Linguistics with the Literacy,...

December 1st 2020

Q&A with Richard Pimentel, disability rights pioneer who started advocacy journey at PSU

Richard Pimentel, a key player in the fight for rights for people with disabilities,...

November 12th 2020

Teacher quality scores change depending on students, school, PSU study finds

School districts across the U.S. are increasingly using student test scores...

November 2nd 2020

PSU, UO researchers awarded NSF RAPID grant to study coronavirus impacts on access to household provisions

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s relationships with the outside world. Researchers from Portland State University and the University of Oregon have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how shopping strategies have changed as consumers quickly become more...