Eating locally harvested foods can quickly get expensive, especially for college students, and the PSU Food Action Collective is offering a solution. FAC is leading workshops for students interested in how to eat local food on a tight budget. They are in the middle of a six-part series called Healthy, Easy, Affordable and Local.
The Senate Committee on Education and Workforce Development will hold a public hearing this month on the recently passed tuition equity bill, which grants undocumented immigrant students in-state tuition in Oregon.
Passersby will get a VIP view of performing arts within the new glass tower at Lincoln Hall, which is to be fully constructed by the end of September. Barbara Sestak, dean of the College of the Arts, is directing the construction of the beacon that will visually showcase the newly founded college at Portland State.
The newly inducted College of the Arts was feted on Wednesday in the Shattuck Hall Annex. The event announced a $2.3 million donation made by local philanthropist Arlene Schnitzer. The funds will facilitate the construction of a three-story glass tower in Lincoln Hall, intended to boost attention for Portland State’s new COTA.
Smoke detectors on campus are extremely sensitive, especially in the Smith Memorial Student Union building. A couple of weeks ago, a dirty smoke detector triggered the fire alarm, and everyone had to evacuate SMSU.
Technological advancements are revamping higher education, and Portland State is next. The Provost’s Challenge, now underway, is set to accelerate the development of proposed technology-based changes to college programs and resources at PSU.
The gift that keeps giving. Cat’s tongue. Last-laugh sores. Some even call the herpes simplex virus a life sentence.
Two types of HSV exist. Type 1 is a cold sore or fever blister. Type 2 is the usual cause of genital herpes. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 can infect either the mouth or genitals.
This V-Day, take your Valentine to see a comedic murder-mystery romance complete with espionage, war and love at the Northwest premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Red Herring, hitting the stage at Artists Repertory Theatre this month. “Companies arm-wrestle [for] the rights to plays, and we fought to get this one,” said the theater’s marketing director, Nicole Lane.
A catastrophic software crash nixed studying for midterms for some students at Portland State last week. Learning software giant Desire2Learn stopped working on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Service at PSU resumed on Friday.
“Today, art is all but dead anyway,” according to Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, the
godfather of stop-motion animation who popularized claymation. The Portland Art Museum’s Northwest Film Center is presenting a retrospective of Svankmajer’s influential career that
continues to run this weekend at the center’s Whitsell Auditorium.
Massive open online courses are all the rage as society is propelled ever faster into the digital age. MOOCs aren’t new, but they are becoming increasingly popular among universities.