The Associated Students of Portland State University held its first senate meeting with its newly elected leadership on June 1 to introduce members, appoint new positions and announce future events….
Portland Stress University
College students often experience high levels of stress which, for many students, can be new and overwhelming. Stress is especially high during final exams. Portland State’s finals week begins on…
Divestment activists rally amid Sustainability Celebration
Demonstrators opposed to the Portland State University Foundation’s investments in fossil fuel received a reception they did not expect last Thursday when they crashed the PSU Sustainability Celebration in silent…
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…
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…
Four PSU graduate programs listed among top in nation
Four graduate programs from Portland State made it into the top 25 programs in the nation: Social Work; Urban and Regional Planning; Biology; and Linguistics, according to the spring 2015…
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…