Author: Shawn Smith

After six months, the search for the next dean of the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science is about to come to a close.

Last fall, a new ally in the fight for a healthier, greener earth joined the ranks at Portland State. James Pankow brings his 30-plus years of knowledge of environmental science to the university.

“If you’re confused and you’re uncomfortable, and you don’t know what to think, that’s the best place to have your students,” Schomburg said. “That’s when they’re really learning something, when they have to kind of struggle to figure something out.”

Shawna Barnett is a freshman at Portland Sate and the mother of two children, and already she is faced with the possibility of having to drop her classes because of lack of child care on campus.

One of the fondest memories that Depen Patel has of his 2008 trip to Honduras with the relief organization Global Brigades is the reaction of the children as the bus pulled into one of the villages.

She is many things: an architect, a mother and a “laid back East Coast” outdoorswoman. But Alice Wiewel is also the wife of new university President Wim Wiewel, and she is excited to step into this new role and into a new city all the way across the country. 

The streets of the Palestinian West Bank were filled with tear gas and bullets as Palestinian protesters carrying signs and throwing rocks came under a hail of gunfire from Israeli soldiers stationed atop houses.

Most people might not see the significance of an e-mail from a sister sharing the experience of a wonderful day at the beach.

Over the past six years, members of a certain Portland dragon boat racing team have made waves not only by placing high in competitions, but also through devotion to their craft.

Portland State alumnus William Klausman is a man of many faces. He might be serving coffee incognito at your local coffee shop, or masquerading as the co-worker in the cubicle next to you, or as your new boss. As a corporate spy, it’s all in a day’s work for Klausman.

When the Portland State community who knew S. John Trudeau describe the former university dean, phrases like “warm person,” “visionary” and “excellent conductor” are evoked.