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Walk into the Ben & Jerry’s store in PSU’s Urban Plaza and you’ll see a familiar sight.

There are the predictable brightly colored posters and signs, freezers full of ice cream and, of course, you’ll be greeted by a friendly scooper behind the counter.

Surya Joshi reminisces about a time in Nepal when the daily news would open with body counts.

“That was the new normal,” Joshi said.

Most undergraduate students who balance work, school and a family quickly learn that the traditional class schedule simply doesn’t work for them.

Some find it disappointing that Portland State only offers Judaic studies as a minor, but with new faculty member Nina Spiegel, that’s set to change soon.

Computers are very much like people. They run, play music, analyze data, communicate, grow old and die—they have a life, literally and figuratively.

Sarah Ensor just began her first term at Portland State as an assistant professor in the Department of English.

Ensor received her doctorate from Cornell University and focuses mainly on American literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with an emphasis on gender studies and ecocriticism.

Portland State’s Mark O. Hatfield School of Government hired Billie Sandberg this year as the new assistant professor of public administration.

When it comes to using marijuana, everyone has a sense of what’s legal, but not everyone has the facts.

If you’ve attempted the iconic en pointe ballet technique, you know how difficult it is to maintain a center of mass on tiptoes.

To learn how dancers do it—how they lift each other bird-like in the air or perform the fouetté en tournant—ballet connoisseurs and science geeks alike gathered with microbrews and pizza in the Bagdad Theater on Wednesday for the OMSI Science Pub event, The Physics of Ballet.

While many of us filter through our emails each morning over a cup of coffee, Portland State Mechanical and Materials Engineering professor Mark Weislogel and his team of graduate students get emails from space.