Portland State’s Office of Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) is replacing eight parking pay stations with new machines and adding two locations this fall, at cost of $80,000, with each machine priced at $8000.
Legends film series amps up PSU media
Anthony Wolk didn’t plan to stay in the Northwest.
In 1965, Wolk accepted a teaching position at Portland State. He thought he’d stay for two or three years, he said. But something changed his mind.
“It’s the students—I like the students,” Wolk said. “That’s what held me all these years.”
Days in the lives of canvassers
Asking you how your day is going, jigging to music booming from cars, holding clipboards and pamphlets out to you—PSU students employed as canvassers over the summer will try many different ways to get your attention.
“I thought one guy was going to punch me because his baby was sleeping and I rang the doorbell,” ASPSU Chief of Staff Brandon Harris said. He canvassed for Oregon politician Chuck Riley last year.
Days in the lives of canvassers
Asking you how your day is going, jigging to music booming from cars, holding clipboards and pamphlets out to you—PSU students employed as canvassers over the summer will try many different ways to get your attention.
Vietnamese Intel Scholars look ahead
When Huong Ha was 12 years old, she’d play with electronic devices instead of modeling her mother’s dresses. She broke her father’s new watch while trying to disassemble it.
“I was like a boy growing up,” Ha said, “I would put nails into walls.”
Vietnamese Intel Scholars look ahead
When Huong Ha was 12 years old, she’d play with electronic devices instead of modeling her mother’s dresses. She broke her father’s new watch while trying to disassemble it.
PSU students awarded Fulbright grants
When Sarah Taylor received the email informing her that she’d won a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to teach in Germany, the 23-year-old—an applied linguistics and German major—struggled to speak.
Historian provides perspective on recent Middle East uprisings
In the early hours of the Egyptian revolution on Jan. 25, while the streets of Cairo were exploding with demonstrations and riots, Paul Sedra was sitting at his desk, carefully monitoring the events that occurred in Tahrir Square.
Staying outside the lines
When Sewon Kim moved to the United States last July with his wife and two children, the Korean artist was looking to utilize his expertise in industrial and textile design during his stint as a visiting scholar in Portland State’s art department.
Students act for Japan
Nearly two months after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Tohoku region of Japan on March 11, students at Portland State organized an art exhibition last weekend to raise awareness and support of the tragedy.
Muslim student group racially targeted on Internet
An event hosted by the Muslim Student Association at Portland State, intended to educate the public about Islam as part of the Islamic Awareness Week, April 4 to 8, turned into a confrontation between the group and an unidentified attendant over a video recorded without permission from the organizers.