You are not a loan

“$1.2 trillion is not working,” said Daniel Hong, an organizer with Strike Debt Portland. People gathered on the Park Blocks behind Smith Memorial Student Union for a student Debtor’s Assembly…

Eric Betzig, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize laureate speaks on campus

“I would never call myself a chemist,” said Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 recipient Eric Betzig. Betzig was this year’s speaker at the annual Mark Gurevitch Memorial Lecture Series, hosted…

Bad seed? Good seed?

About 400 people of all ages joined this year’s March Against Monsanto on May 23, themed “Food for Justice,” in Downtown Portland. The movement took place in 38 countries and…

Don’t you P-O-L-L-U-T-E the Earth

As part of an ongoing commitment to promoting sustainability, on May 28, the sustainability programs at Portland State will host their eighth annual Sustainability Celebration. The program will be held…

Kellogg Awards honors English department student writers

Portland State’s English department hosted its 51st annual awards ceremony, giving accolades and cash prizes to both undergraduate and graduate students for collegiate writing. Twenty-one students were honored for their…

Finding common ground

There are roughly 2,100 teaching and non-teaching faculty employed by Portland State: adjunct instructors, senior instructors, associate professors, assistant professors, researchers, librarians, attorneys, advisers, tenure track, non-tenure track, temporary and…

A stable financial future

The Portland State Financial Futures Task Force has adopted a new budget model, Performance Based Budgeting, to support academic missions and align expenditures with institutional strategic priorities. Previously, PSU managed…

Architecture students build urban parklet

Students from the School of Architecture began constructing a parklet near the food carts in the South of Market [SoMa] EcoDistrict on SW 4th on May 24 and 25. The…

AAUP kicks off bargaining with “Imagine”

Portland State’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors kicked off bargaining with a rally on May 6. The rally was a joint action with the PSU Faculty Association,…