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A yellow umbrella shades a red and blue outdoor dining table and chairs on the sidewalk outside a restaurant in Forest Grove, Oregon; one of the study sites chosen to evaluate the economic impacts of bicycle and pedestrian street improvements.

June 30th 2022

Active Transportation Projects Offer Solid Returns on Investment, Economic Study Finds

Active transportation investments offer many types of benefits related to...

he MURP team Street Perspective presenting their work on June 3 in a PSU Friday Transportation Seminar. From left: Asif Haque, Meisha Whyte, Sean Doyle, Angie Martínez, Peter Domine, Nick Meusch.

June 30th 2022

PSU Planning Students Seek to Improve Safety for Houseless Pedestrians

In 2022, a PSU Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) team made headlines...

June 14th 2022

College of Urban & Public Affairs Announces 2021-22 Faculty & Staff Awards

Congratulations to the following College of Urban & Public Affairs (CUPA)...

June 8th 2022

College of Urban & Public Affairs Announces 2021-22 Student Achievement Awards

Congratulations to our 2021-22 College of Urban & Public Affairs (CUPA) Student Achievement Award winners! These annual awards are given to students in programs within the College of Urban & Public Affairs who have excelled in their academic studies, community service, and university service....

Four PSU students (the 2022 Better Block PSU team for "Hood River ALIVE") wearing orange and yellow reflective vests pose in front of Hood River middle school.

May 20th 2022

Announcing the 2022 Better Block PSU Projects!

Better Block PSU is a partnership program between the volunteer-led group...

May 18th 2022

Currently Accolades: Presented for May 23, 2022

Maude Hines, English faculty, Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, Janet...

Group photo: Students celebrate the end of the Spring 2022 Wasatch Transportation Academy pilot class with a field trip to look at transportation infrastructure in the Salt Lake City region of Utah.

May 5th 2022

Launching the Wasatch Transportation Academy in Utah: A Community-Building Learning Model

How could a free transportation class for people living in the Salt Lake...

April 28th 2022

2020 Census Data Products: Next Steps for Data Releases

Photo of PSR and Portland Fire handing out water bottles during a heat wave.

April 25th 2022

Alternative police response yields social services, no arrests in first year

Portland Street Response (PSR), the city’s new first-response unit,...

April 25th 2022

PSU announces recipients of prestigious university research and mentoring awards

From left: Randall Bluffstone, Katy Barber, Anne Thompson, Leigh Ahlgren Portland State University announces the 2022 awards for excellence in research, graduate mentoring and research administration. The awards are among the university's...

April 19th 2022

2021 Population Report Tables

The Annual Population Report tables are available for download on the PRC site. The document is available as an Excel Spreadsheet or a printer friendly .pdf.

April 15th 2022

Alumni life: Remembering Charles Moose

CHARLES MOOSE sat at the front of the class dressed, as usual, in a sharp...