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From new MAX stops to the opening of an apartment building with nearly 1,000 beds, Portland State’s south campus area has been rapidly growing over the past year—but it’s not done yet.

With an eight-story, 129-bedroom mixed-use building at Southwest Fifth Avenue and College Street and three new eating—and one drinking—option on the ground floor of University Pointe just next door, the changes to this far end of campus are still coming.

Around 80 professionals from several Oregon universities came to Portland State on Friday to attend a daylong conference addressing student sexual misconduct on campuses in context of Title XI.

PSU hosted the annual Oregon University System Best Practices Conference titled “Promoting a Student-Centered Response to Sexual Misconduct.”

It’s happening all over Oregon.

In 2009, Portland Community College became a tobacco-free campus.

On Sept. 1, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon also became smoke-free.

Have you ever surfed the Internet, planning your dream vacation? You may not ever reach your destination, but there’s a good chance your computer or iPad will.

When Cicada Zayda moved west to Portland, his life in Akron, Ohio wasn’t the only thing he left behind.

Students strolling through the Park Blocks at half past noon on any given Wednesday will likely be surprised by an unfamiliar sight—and sound.

Stefan Talke came to Portland two years ago to work with David Jay, a Portland State professor in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. Talke is now a senior research associate, and will be teaching one class per term.

“So much as [Portland State] is the land of untraditional students, I’m the untraditional new faculty person, because I haven’t been in academia for 15 years,” Charles Klein, the new applied medical anthropologist at PSU, said.

In honor of Food Day, Portland State will host a Food Justice Symposium on Monday, Oct. 24.

There is a creature that can survive without oxygen. It can live for weeks without water.