Community & Wellness Resources

Happening Soon   PSU VSA Food Drive SMSU 327 May 6, 12 p.m. Free for Students A food drive collaboration for positive aging, collecting non-perishable and canned foods   Live…

Community & Wellness Resources

Happening Soon   Shop for Free Resource Center for Students with Children Mar. 8, 10 a.m. Free for students Find gently-used clothing—as well as toys, houseware and more—for yourself and…

NASCC staff wanted to close the office down for a week after the threat to give people time to heal outside the space. The GDI office that oversees NASCC denied the request to make space for those who wanted to heal in the community. Alberto Alonso Pujazon Bolgani/PSU Vanguard.

Bomb threat at NASCC

Jade Wolfe picked up the phone at 1:51 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, with her typical posed entry line as a front desk student employee for the Native American Student…

The Helen Gordon Center, with their current waitlist of 67 families, highlights the deepening crisis of inaccessible affordable childcare across the nation impacting Portland State’s faculty, staff and students. Alberto Alonso Pujazon Bolgani/PSU Vanguard.

Helen Gordon Center waitlist reflects larger national problem

Rain falls upon the playground outside the Helen Gordon Child Development Center. The pitter-patter of the raindrops is the only sound echoing through the building other than the construction noises…

The statewide HRAC report reveals an 8.2% increase in houselessness from 2022, highlighting a growing gap between sheltered and unsheltered individuals. Kat Leon/PSU Vanguard.

PSU releases annual Oregon houselessness report

Portland State’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC) released its annual report on Oregon’s houselessness on Feb. 2, shedding light on the ongoing and increasing crisis affecting the state.  …

In southeast Oregon, military drills use chaff at possible detriment to the environment. Moreover, as out-of-control wildfires threaten Oregon, the Department of Forestry discovered a military flare remnant at fire site. Courtesy of Friends of the Owyhee.

Air Force releases aluminum-coated glass fibers over Oregon

In Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands, where the air is crisp and the land echoes with the whispers of the Oregon wilderness, a new and different kind of thunder rumbles. When F-15…