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Everyone knows how it works.
The day you’re handed your college diploma is the day you step right off the podium and straight back into your parents’ house, cursing the economy on your way in.
The events were varied but the motto was simple: “Toward community wellness.”
The last day of November will mark the end of Portland State’s Social Sustainability Month, an annual event now in its third year.
As issues of student debt and rising tuition resonate with students across the country, students at Portland State are making an effort to change the current educational system.
You’ve heard the phrase “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” right?
In the case of Trash for Peace, it’s most certainly true.
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, EcoReps—a group of students promoting environmentally responsible behavior on campus—teamed up with a local nonprofit, Trash for Peace, to demonstrate three do-it-yourself, eco-friendly and waste-reducing projects built from “trash.”
The time-honored custom of backpacking through Europe after college graduation isn’t for everyone. With jobs for recent grads becoming scarce, many students jump directly into graduate school.
What would campus look like if Portland State’s Campus Public Safety Office became a sworn law enforcement agency?
And how would these changes be paid for?
As fall term draws to a close and with finals just around the corner, many students are feeling stressed.
Hoping to lighten the load, the Center for Student Health and Counseling staff held a Test Your Mood event on Wednesday.
“You have breast cancer.”
These are four of the scariest words a woman can hear—and in the U.S., one in eight women will hear them in her lifetime.
How the rest of that conversation goes is largely up to the doctor. Women are often bombarded with treatment options and life-altering decisions within minutes of discovering they have cancer.
Portland General Electric’s corporate foundation, the PGE Foundation, recently awarded a $50,000 grant to Portland State for a power engineering teaching laboratory that will help prepare engineering students for careers…
On Thursday, at an event presented by the Portland State Center for Japanese Studies, associate professor of economics Hiro Ito spoke about the current clash between Japan and China over a group of three small and uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.