News

Portland State’s first-ever Indigenous Solidarity event will be held at the Native American Student and Community Center Monday, Oct. 8.

Inspired by the recent student protests in Quebec, Canada, a small group of Portland State University activists has set out to mobilize students and their potential as a prominent political force.

Austin Hudson, a graduate civil engineering student, would like to fly over Portland State and not be able to tell the Park Blocks from university building rooftops.

“I’d like to see green roofs everywhere,” he said. That’s why he is part of a student group, Engineers Without Borders, that recently built a green roof on Cramer Hall.

Americans have had a presence in space since 1961, when Alan Shepard first crawled into a tiny metal capsule and left Earth. Since then, the U.S. government has been responsible for taking each and every astronaut there.

Lisa Wittorff, coordinator of the Resource Center for Students with Children, knows that raising a child while taking classes is no easy thing.

“I’m a single parent,” Wittorff said. “I know what it’s like.”

Classrooms at Portland State often look the same.

Some are older and some are newer. Some have flat ground and others have several tiers. There are tables, chairs and many tiny desks.

Walking around campus, they seem to be everywhere.

Wherever you look, someone is standing in the Park Blocks with a clipboard in hand.

Any organization that can count Nike Chairman Phil Knight and Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle among its donors is a force to be reckoned with in Oregon.

When an architect is designing a building, how does he decide when to use elements of the surrounding environment?

And how does the place he is building in—from geography, topography, culture or even surrounding buildings—factor into an architect’s plan?

Imagine being a guest at Portland State.

Whether you’re here to do personal research at Millar Library or attend an academic conference, accessing the Internet will be a necessary part of business.

Knee deep in Washington’s cold marshland waters, Kyle Tidwell catches frogs and records habitat data. It isn’t what most people would consider an ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. But to Tidwell, a Portland State graduate student, it’s paradise.