Portland State Vanguard Events Calendar

The Zumiez Couch Tour brings brands and fans together for an event unlike any other. Celebrity skateboarders will be performing demonstrations of the latest gear and Portland local band Red Fang...

All students are welcome to attend this information session about Portland State Study Abroad programs. Students who have just returned from studying abroad themselves will be available to answer...

How’s Your News? is a documentary film that follows the journey of a set of reporters with developmental disabilities as...

In his lecture, Professor Sherman Cochran will discuss family survival strategies and decision making based on a new book that he and his co-author, Professor Andrew Hsieh, have recently published, The Lius of Shanghai (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013). In their private correspondence, the parents and their twelve children in the Liu family discuss sensitive political issues – should they collaborate with the Japanese occupiers of China? should they flee after the communist takeover of the country? – as well as intimate matters like marital infidelity.

Grab a friend or come and be paired up with a new one to compete in the Portland State version of the Amazing Race. Teams will work their way through the rec center to complete challenges for the chance to win fantastic prizes...

The event is a one hour debate between Bart Rask and Truman Smith. Mr. Rask is an Orthopedic surgeon. He earned a B.S. in microbiology [...]

Are you interested in pursuing a career in a health related field? The Portland State Pre-Health Society is holding and end-of-the-year event for all interested [...]

The Portland State Association of African Students welcomes guests to the 33rd annual African Culture night. Cultural education and entertainment will be provided in the form of dancing, music and poetry as well as the chance...

Smith Memorial Student Union will be hosting an event aimed at discussing whether social media and help resolve or prevent conflicts on a global scale and help prevent nonviolence across the world. The event will be seminar style and feature...

Frances Li will provide a visual, historical introduction to this distinctive complex in Beijing. During both the Ming and Qing dynasties, the China's Imperial Palace [...]

Support Portland State and celebrate 100 years of the Portland Rose Festival at the Starlight Parade, an annual event that is family friendly and free, where floats and participants will be decorated with lights...

Portland Global Initiatives is an organization that raises funds to help build clean water wells in under-developed countries. For the fifth year in a row they will be facilitating a walk where participants will pledge $20 to simulate the three mile average walk...

If you have artifacts, fossils or interesting antiques that you would like to know more about bring them to OMSI for Portland State’s Archaeology Roadshow, where experts...

Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist, short story writer, and essayist who was award ed the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Despite his social criticism [...]

Visiting researcher, Patrick Driscoll, from Aalborg University in Copenhagen, will be at Portland State to offer a presentation on how climate change mitigation and adaptation planning in Copenhagen allow for sustainable urban growth...

Portland State’s Task Force on Public Safety will be holding an open forum about public safety on campus. The forum will call on a panel of students, staff and faculty who will analyze crime data and host a series of campus conversations...

Take a break from studying for finals and writing papers to enjoy free breakfast with friends and fellow students at the spring term midnight breakfast...

The Portland State Anthropology department presents Mark Madsen, a guest speaker from the University of Washington, who will be giving a lecture entitled, What Can We Know about Past Cultural Transmission? Issues in Extending Behavioral Models to Archaeological Time. The lecture will...

The School of Architecture will be celebrating the accreditation of the Masters of Architecture Program and its transformation to a school with an end of the year architecture design...

Portland State’s Center for Japanese Studies invites you to an evening celebrating 30 years of...

May 29, 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of The Rite of Spring, featuring a revolutionary musical score by lgor Stravinsky plus [...]

The Resource Center for Students with Children presents "Oh,the Places You'll Go!" a Family-Friendly Graduation at PSU!

The Women of Color Zine Symposium 2013 is an opportunity for women of color artists to come together and share their work with the larger Portland community. This year the focus is on the creative voices of Queer/Trans women/womyn of color. The event will include tabling/selling of zines, open mic, workshop, and end of day activity. The symposium is free and open to the public. Allies are encouraged to attend. Please remember this is a safe space for all participants.

Join us for a fun evening on Wednesday, June 12 from 5-8pm at East Burn for the final event of our spring happy hour series. [...]

This free workshop session covers how to use your Google Drive: drive.pdx.edu. Share your Google Docs, learn "Google Etiquette", organize your items, customize your settings, learn shortcuts, tips, and more... visit http://is.gd/afWuk6 to sign up today.

On June 25th we're having a book launch at the Edgefield McMenamins for the free iBook "Revealing Our Past: A History of Nineteenth Century Vancouver [...]

This presentation will provide a picture of Chinese economic development, through typical measures and three kinds of economic indicators on Chinese economies, namely, the role [...]

Students with children: today is the priority deadline for submitting your Jim Sells childcare subsidy application for Summer 2013. Applications are due on Friday, June [...]