NEWS

Dear PSU Students, Portland State is continuing to monitor the quickly evolving situation concerning the coronavirus known as COVID-19 and we wanted to share the latest updates with you. Please take a minute to watch this video message from Interim PSU President Stephen Percy and Dr....

Tasmania's ancient rainforest faces a grim future as a warming climate and the way people used the land have brought significant changes to the island state off mainland Australia's southeastern coast, according to a new Portland State University study. The study holds lessons not only...

Two new exhibitions will open at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University March 5. The exhibitions feature local artists Arvie Smith and Daniel Duford. Curated by Interim Director Linda Tesner, these exhibitions are woven together by themes of racism, oppression, and...

Portland State is responding to the rapidly changing developments both internationally and here in Oregon regarding the coronavirus known as COVID-19. Travel Effective Monday, PSU is suspending official travel for all faculty, students and staff to South Korea, Italy and Iran, in addition...

Dear campus community, The spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Asia and Europe combined with new reports of isolated cases in the United States have generated understandable concerns across campus. We need to be prepared and are closely monitoring developments in our daily contacts with...

Portland State University’s Viking Pavilion will reverberate with hundreds of voices as Internationally acclaimed choral artist Eric Whitacre conducts a massive choir made up of 500 singers, including PSU’s renowned choirs, in a concert of his compositions at 4 p.m. March 1. ...

Situated on the eastern flank of the Ring of Fire, a belt of volcanic...

For over a decade, the Institute for Sustainable Solutions (ISS) at Portland State University has provided leadership in campus and community engagement, research and education around issues of livability, climate change and sustainable cities and regions. ISS's success over the years is...

Four members of PSU’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC) trekked to Anchorage, Alaska in the middle of winter to help launch a community project on homelessness. Todd Ferry and Marta Petteni worked with the Anchorage Museum on the exhibit “Houseless,” which features...

A new initiative, Propel PSU, combines three existing PSU programs to help PSU students, faculty and Portland entrepreneurs transform their innovations into products and companies that benefit Portland, the region and the world. “We believe that entrepreneurship and commercialization contribute...

Pioneering Portland State College of Education (COE) alumna Penny McDonald is not only a fervent volunteer for the Portland Womxn’s March, she wrote a book on it. “Yes, I am a feminist: yes, yes, yes,” McDonald said. McDonald is the author of “We March for You: Messages to Girls...

Portland State University's Digital City Testbed Center (DCTC) is partnering with researchers inside and outside the university to track the health of urban trees using ground, aircraft, and satellite-based sensor technology. The tiny sensors placed high up in the canopy combined with...