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Darrell Grant
Jazz star Darrell Grant's most important gig is at Portland State.
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Meet Anmarie Trimble
Anmarie Trimble brings together creative writers and multimedia artists to create literary artworks.
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Meet Associate Professor Cynthia-Lou Coleman
A former reporter turned professor studies mass media, uncovering values and mores that lurk beneath the construction of news stories.
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Meet Cherry Muhanji
Cherry Muhanji argues jazz as metaphor, where this uniquely American art form represents the democratic ideals wherein the collective plays together, solos, and then returns as a collective.
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Meet Director Julie Esparza Brown
The greatest gift we can give to multicultural students is teachers who understand them. Just ask Julie Esparza Brown.
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Meet Director Ruth Falco, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus
All children, including those with special needs and disabilities, deserve inclusive and effective educational practices. Ask Professor Ruth Falco about research in the GSE that applies and develops these practices.
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Meet Jack Straton
With a background in jazz, quantum theory, and diversity training, Jack Straton infuses his classes with creativity, interdisciplinary experience, and interpersonal connection.
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Meet Jamie P. Ross
Jamie P. Ross shows students how philosophy and critical inquiry is the basis of all further learning.
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Meet Jeff Gerwing
How can people have equitable access to rich and rewarding lives while living within the means of natural systems? This question is central to the research and teaching of Dr. Jeff Gerwing.
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Meet Michael Flower
Michael Flower is a developmental and molecular biologist whose interests turned from the laboratory study of embryos and genes to the ways in which they've become objects of political battle and moral dispute.
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Meet Professor Andrew G. Fountain
This Ice Man travels the world to study glaciers, including the one named after him — the Fountain Glacier in Antarctica.
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Meet Professor Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Professor Reysenbach is interested in the microscopic life that resides in one of the last frontiers on Earth—hot springs in the deep-sea and on land.
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Meet Professor Anthony Rufolo
Anthony Rufolo understands the regional economy.
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Meet Professor Barry Messer
Barry Messer knows why healthy rivers make healthy communities.
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Meet Professor Bryant York
When not teaching and working with students in his adaptive learning lab in PSU's Computer Science Department, Dr. Bryant York helps shape the future of computer science.
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Meet Professor Carl Abbott
Carl Abbott writes the history of urban development and planning in the 20th-century United States.
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Meet Professor Carolyn Carr
Would you like to know what the best test of a leader is? Ask Dr. Carolyn Carr.
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Meet Professor Carolyn McKnight
Carolyn McKnight, an acknowledged figure in the area of corporate leadership and organizational development for over 25 years, leads the charge for executing Portland State's new MBA+ curriculum and programming.
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Meet Professor Charles Heying
Charles Heying thinks through how cities work.
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Meet Professor Chris Borgmeier
How can we create schools and classrooms that are positive, safe, and respectful learning environments for all students? Dr. Chris Borgmeier is working with Portland area school districts to understand this question.
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Meet Professor Connie Ozawa
Connie Ozawa knows how to help people make good decisions about their communities.
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Meet Professor Cynthia Mohr
Professor Cynthia Mohr understands that psychologists are like Sherlock Holmes, examining the clues of human behavior to discover how one individual influences another.
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Meet Professor Dennis Stovall
The Center for Excellence in Writing's Ooligan Press continues to grow with the guidance of Program Coordinator Dennis Stovall.
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Meet Professor Don Dickinson
When Don Dickinson brings his students to the boardroom, Portland's advertising agencies listen.
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Meet Professor Dragan Milosevic
Dragan Milosevic believes that being a good manager means learning to work with people in an effort to help them excel.
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Meet Professor Emeritus Michihiro Kosuge
Whether sculpting granite or shaping students, Michihiro Kosuge creates a legacy of art for the region.
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Meet Professor Ethan Seltzer
Ethan Seltzer plans the cities of the future.
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Meet Professor Friedrich Schuler
At fifteen Professor Friedrich Schuler got lost in the library. Today he still goes to the stacks to discover the truth about the past.
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Meet Professor Gayle Thieman
Social studies is her passion, and students are her highest priority.
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Meet Professor George C. Hough, Jr.
Have a question about data?
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Meet Professor Gerald Sussman
Gerry Sussman does research on the impacts of information and communication technologies on politics, economics, culture, and everyday life.
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Meet Professor Gwynn Johnson
Gwynn Johnson's enthusiasm for teaching and research helps make PSU extraordinary.
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Meet Professor Jacqueline B. Temple
What if your view of holistic education encompasses the entire world? Ask Dr. Temple to share her vision of internationalizing inclusive teacher education.
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Meet Professor James McNames
At PSU I am privileged to work with very bright and creative people on stimulating and useful projects.
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Meet Professor Janice Haaken
Whether studying drag queens, false memories or the wearing of the hijab, Professor Haaken knows that there is often more than meets the eye.
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Meet Professor Jennifer Dill
Jennifer Dill understands how your morning commute affects the environment.
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Meet Professor Karen Marrongelle
In Professor Marrongelle’s classroom mathematics is an active subject.
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Meet Professor Ken Peterson
How can we identify a good teacher? Ask Dr. Kenneth D. Peterson, an expert in teacher evaluation.
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Meet Professor Loren Lutzenhiser
Loren Lutzenhiser understands how the way you live affects the global climate.
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Meet Professor Mark Sytsma
When aliens invade our waters, Mark Sytsma fights back.
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Meet Professor Michael Fogarty
Connects research on regional growth and development to urban policy, emphasizing the role of universities, government, and industry in creating innovation and regional advantage.
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Meet Professor Micki Caskey
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." a quote by John Dewey summarizes Dr. Micki Caskey's view of education.
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Meet Professor Nancy Chapman
Nancy Chapman makes sense out of "helping networks" and the "sandwich generation."
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Meet Professor Patricia Wetzel
Professor Patricia Wetzel travels the linguistic landscape of Japan.
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Meet Professor Richard White
Richard White looks at how faith works with government to build communities.
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Meet Professor Robert Bertini
"Many PSU students gain professional experience and contacts while in school. This gives them the ability to hit the ground running as they begin their careers."
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Meet Professor Rolf Koenenkamp
When it comes to harvesting the sun’s energy, Professor Rolf Koenenkamp is often light years ahead.
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Meet Professor Sully Taylor
When Sully Taylor brings her Asian business expertise to the table, Oregon companies win.
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Meet Professor Susan Halverson-Westerberg
Seeing people as part of many different systems exponentially expands the possibilities for counseling success.
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Meet Professor Teresa Bulman
Professor Teresa Bulman’s passion for teaching is a natural resource.
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Meet Professor Thomas Gillpatrick
Oregon's food industry has a lot of cravings. Tom Gillpatrick satisfies them.
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Meet Professor Vivek Shandas
Professor Shandas’ teaching and research interests include: environmental policy, geographic information systems, natural resource management, participatory planning, and urban ecology.
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Meet Professor William Wood
William Wood's close connection to local industry creates an atmosphere where students can succeed.
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Meet Professor Yer Thao
What can we learn from a story? Ask Dr. Thao, a scholar interested in oral tradition.
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Meet Victoria Parker-Pohl
An award-winning writer, director, actor and theater instructor, Victoria Pohl has been a member of the University Studies Freshman Inquiry Program since 2001, worked since 1985 in the Theater Arts Program and acted as a founding instructor with PSU's Creative Industries Program.
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New Student Recreation Center
Learn about the NEW Student Recreation Center coming in 2009.
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Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
OTREC is a National University Transportation Center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration and is a partnership between Portland State University, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University and the Oregon Institute of Technology.
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Our University, It's Not Just Academic
How Portland State fuels the economic development of the metropolitan, Oregon and Northwest communities.
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Portland State...
...combines involvement and expertise in all things urban with a passion for cultivating all things "green."
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Portland State...
...provides opportunity to all who demonstrate a genuine commitment to achieve.
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Portland State...
...attracts creative and motivated students and faculty who teach and learn in a diverse community of all ages, nationalities, and races.
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Portland State...
...conducts research and service critical to the economic development and quality of life of the region.
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Portland State...
...embodies and contributes to the vision and character that make Portland a progressive, entrepreneurial city with growing international connections.
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Snapshot of Portland State
A statistical snapshot of Portland State's enrollment, degree programs, employees, and alumni plus several other scintillating facts.
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Susan Chan
An active piano soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Chan promotes music from Asia and music written by women composers.
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Visit the Branford P. Millar Library
At the heart of the PSU Campus lies the Branford Price Millar Library, housing over 1.3 million books and extensive study resources for students, faculty and the community.
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We've got great references
See how Portland State University ranks in publications by the Princeton Review, the New England Board of Higher Education and U.S. News & World Report.
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What makes Portland State University special
What makes our university special is not just what we do, but the way we do it: linking faculty, students, and research to projects in the community. Our urban location, regional connections, and global partnerships provide students with relevant experience while making a difference in neighborhoods and around the globe.
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