Portland State University News

A unique Buddhist temple with roots in a dark chapter of World War II faces an uncertain future, along with this Snake River town's once-thriving Japanese American community.

The sense of hard work has been ingrained in Brandy and Brittney Castillo. Since the age of 10, the twins have been delivering papers for the Current-Argus and have taken that work ethic with them.

Tami Lasseter Clare, a chemist at Portland State, aims an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer at a treasure from the Portland Art Museum, a 2,000-year-old Chinese funeral relic called a money tree.

Sustainability begins at home, too - or at least in the neighborhood. Southeast Uplift , a coalition of 20 neighborhood associations in southeast Portland, has teamed up with Portland State University students to produce a Neighborhood Climate Action Planning Handbook.

Admission to the film and reception is free. A small selection of collages by Portland, Oregon artist Eunice Parsons that will be on display at the Hallie Ford Art Museum at Willamette University.

This is an exciting time for Portland-area transit supporters. TriMet's new MAX Green Line from Portland State University to Clackamas Town Center opens Sept.

My areas of study are Quantum Game theory and Mathematical Biology with a focus in Evolution.

Iranians throughout the area gathered for Friday's vigil at Portland State University.

A couple relaxes in the sun on the Portland State University campus today. Forecasters are urging Portland area residents to stock up on sunscreen and keep hydrated during the next four days of abundant sunshine and temperatures in the 90s.

Sen. Ron Wyden today announced details of a package of five bills aimed at easing the readjustment process for troops returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those are the findings of a new study published online in Obesity by researchers at Statistics Canada, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and McGill University.

AcademyHealth and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have awarded ten scholarships to graduate students who demonstrate outstanding potential to contribute to the field of public health systems research .

Portland State University's Progressive Student Union supports renaming 39th Avenue in Portland for Cesar Chavez.

Underweight people and those who are extremely obese die earlier than people of normal weight - but those who are overweight actually live longer than people of normal weight.

Incarcerated Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been granted his first full parole hearing in 15 years.

Twenty-eight top science students from Vietnam arrived at Portland State University on Monday to begin two years of engineering studies paid for by Intel.

A recall campaign against Mayor Sam Adams will go forward despite today's decision not to file criminal charges against Adams, the effort's leader says.

This month, two African American artists with Portland connections have died - Robert Colescott on June 4 from Parkinsonian syndrome and Philemon Reid on June 9 from pancreatic cancer.

Margaret Van Vliet has been hired as the first director of the new Portland Housing Bureau.

Today, we're fortunate to have Hiro Ito , Associate Professor of Economics at Portland State University as a guest blogger.