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Opportunity comes to the Portland State University Honors Program in the form of a $1 million gift. The gift, from the Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, is the third-largest donation to a scholarship endowment in the school’s history. The trust and the school have a long-running relationship, and this marks the trust’s largest donation to date.
Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Office has created a new detective position within the agency and filled it with retired Portland Police Bureau Detective Matt Horton.
Most students think of health as an easy class, but Angela Horgan’s nutrition class is something different. Starting off by discussing the science of nutrition, Horgan emphasizes that the class is a rigorous science class.
Since convening in June, nearly half of the positions in the inner circle of Portland State’s student government have been through a turnover, part of an ongoing retention problem that has bred uncertainty within the organization.
As a kid, Portland State biology doctoral student James Powell wanted to work with dolphins. He didn’t know how or what he would be doing with them, just that he needed to build his professional career around them. At one point, he considered becoming a dolphin trainer for the U.S. Navy, but was talked out of it and instead turned to the field of biology.
How can I be happy? George Rohrich, leader of the Manifest Men’s Wellness Community life-coaching group for Portland State students and community, helps people find that answer.
Hormones are something every student has been hearing about since middle school.But the science behind them is something few people focus on. Even fewer look into the relationship between hormones and behavior.
For some Portland State students, winter term simply means shorter and chillier days. But for others it means depression, lethargy and a loss of interest in classes, friends and life in general.
Despite having translated a number of seminal Persian works, Dr. Dick Davis is still unearthing fresh beauty and stumbling upon new nuances of the Persian language to this day.
Clarke Leland was staring at his laptop monitor, trying to find a class for fall term that would fulfill that pesky University Studies credit that so many Portland State students treat as an afterthought.The 23-year-old film major didn’t realize it then, but that class would take him and a group of graduate students 2,719 miles from Portland, into a foreign country embargoed by the U.S. government, and give him an opportunity to make a documentary film about Cuban planning and sustainable development along the way.
Non-car-users spend more money than drivers at Portland businesses, PSU’s Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium found in a report last month.