Walking through the halls of Portland State Science Department, you might be a little nervous with the ominous signs that say, “Danger Invisible Lasers,” “Caution Radioactive Material” or “Strong Magnetic Field” posted on many doors.
Safety is the name of the game
Going at it ‘with all his heart’
Over his 26 years at Portland State, Joseph Kohut’s spark made him a memorable professor and friend for his students and colleagues alike. This is especially true of the library emeritus professor’s unflappable zest for paleontology, especially for conodonts-fossils that come from an extinct group of fish-like animals.
A walk to promote justice
There was a time when Julius Achon was not so eager to retell the events of his life. The fear and the nightmares of being abducted as a child by the extremist guerilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, still haunted him, even when he came to the United States in 1995 on a scholarship to George Mason University. “I was so shy and so afraid to share my story … I felt maybe people will laugh at me or I’d be arrested,” Achon said. At the age of 12, Achon had been kidnapped by the LRA and forced to be part of their army where he endured being drugged and beaten.
An experience of a lifetime
While some of Portland State’s growing student population is content to stay within the bounds of the South Park Blocks, more adventurous students may find their PSU experience looking for something a little more international. That’s where PSU’s Education Abroad Office comes in.