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How PSU’s Class of 2025 Is Making a Difference Across Portland
PSU’s 2025 graduates have gone beyond the classroom to serve the city, improving parks, mentoring youth, expanding access to healthcare, and more. Discover how this class has made community engagement central to their academic journey and future careers.
PSU’s New Art Building Takes Shape with Sustainable Timber Design
A striking new addition to PSU’s campus is rising on SW Broadway — an innovative, mass timber-framed art building that reflects the university’s values of sustainability, creativity, and urban integration. Get a glimpse of the future home for PSU’s Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design.
Dying Trees After Wildfires Slow Forest Recovery, PSU Study Finds
A PSU study reveals that trees surviving the 2020 Cascade fires often die years later, reducing live tree cover by an additional 8.5% over three years. These losses fragmented “lifeboat” patches, shrinking seed sources and complicating natural forest regeneration, and raise concerns about future forest resilience.