PSU is growing up

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PSU hires SUNY leader to oversee growth

Portland Business Journal - by Matthew Kish, Business Journal staff writer
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 4:10pm PDT

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Portland State University has hired Monica Rimai to oversee its finances and ambitious growth plan.

Rimai is the senior vice chancellor and chief operating officer for the State University of New York, commonly known as SUNY. She’ll join PSU in August as vice president for finance and administration, a job that includes managing the school’s budget and overseeing its massive expansion effort.

Earlier this year, PSU released a plan to add 7.1 million square feet of space to the University District over the next 20 to 25 years. The effort would dramatically reshape the campus and push its eastern edge to within a few hundred feet of the Willamette River.

Rimai will take over responsibility for the plan from Lindsay Desrochers, who is stepping down after 10 years at PSU.

Rimai had similar duties at SUNY, including managing the university’s $11 billion budget.

“We are thrilled to have such a highly qualified and experienced leader join PSU’s leadership team,” said PSU President Wim Wiewel, in a news release. “Monica was a critical part of transformations at three previous institutions that face many of the same challenges we have.”

Rimai’s career also includes serving as interim president of the University of Cincinnati, chief legal counsel at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and assistant U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin. She holds a law degree from the University of Michigan.

“PSU is growing in terms of its research, its footprint, its enrollment, and its reputation,” Rimai said in a news release. “It is also a leader among urban-serving research universities in terms of bringing its talent and expertise to bear upon the issues and opportunities that drive the agendas of great cities such as Portland. I look forward to being a part of the PSU team, and the challenges this opportunity will bring.”

 

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Mentor Graphics Donates Veloce Emulator to Portland State University

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Mentor Graphics Donates Veloce Emulator to Portland State University

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PSU lands $3.5M for sustainable transportation research

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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday that it will give $3.5 million to Portland State University for research and education on sustainable transportation options.

The grant will be administered by the PSU-based Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, a partnership between PSU, the University of Oregon and the Oregon Institute of Technology. The University of Utah will also participate in research funded by the grant.

PSU was one of 22 grant recipients out of 63 applications received by the DOT.

The grant-funded research and educational programs will focus on:
•Improving health and safety.
•Increasing the efficiency and understanding of cycling, walking and transit.
•Making the best use of data, performance measures and analytical tools.
•Integrating transportation and land-use planning.
•Taking long-term action on transportation emissions and climate change.

OTREC Director Jennifer Dill said the grant is a validation of the research that the research center has been doing since it was formed in 2006.

Projects at OTREC include research on such Oregon-centric topics as bike boxes and their impacts on bicycle safety in Portland, the correlations between land use and travel patterns and the air quality effects of different modes of transportation.

"We've been building on Oregon and what Oregon is known for," Dill said. "We've had a really good track record."

The DOT grant will allow OTREC to take some of that work nationally.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Portland, issued statements of congratulations on the award.

"This grant will help OTREC continue their important work around livability, environmental sustainability, and safety," Merkley said.

Projects under the grant will begin in the fall.

 

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PSU builds support for urban renewal, expansion

Portland State University isn’t waiting for Mayor Sam Adams.

Nearly a year ago, the mayor talked about creating an urban renewal area around Portland State that could put the university’s already booming growth on overdrive. The plan could pump $134 million into the sleepy south side of downtown and revitalize it much the way a dreary warehouse district became the Pearl.

Since the mayor first proposed the idea in his February 2011 State of the City address, however, seemingly not much has happened.

Portland State isn’t content to sit around.............read more:

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Mentor Graphics donates $825,000 to establish chip testing lab at Portland State

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Computer chip design is a rarefied field, and "emulation" technology -- which uses a supercomputer to test forthcoming chips -- is even more specialized.

So Mentor Graphics Corp. hopes to cultivate a new crop of experts itself.

The Wilsonville company has donated $825,000 to Portland State University so the school can add a faculty member and open a lab dedicated to emulation training and research. PSU says it's among the biggest corporate gifts in the university's history.

Emulators speed the testing of computer chips to provide assurance that a new design works, without going to the time and expense of building the actual chip.

This isn't the sort of skill you can pick up on the fly in your garage.

The hardware is expensive -- Mentor gave a $1 million emulator to PSU in 2009 -- and it's extremely complicated, according to Mentor President Gregory Hinckley..

"The problem with it is emulators are hard to use," said Hinckley, who is also an advisor to PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. "We need to create a community that is more familiar with how to use an emulator."

Emulation is a relatively small industry now; Hinckley pegs the total market at roughly $200 million. But Mentor is a big player in the field (along with rival Cadence Design Systems), and it's key to Mentor's growth plans.

Chipmakers want to move from the design phase to mass production as quickly as possible, and cannot afford the possibility that a flaw in a new design will turn up after a new product ships.

Emulating a new chip design on customized hardware is up to 1,000 times faster than simulating it using standard computers, according to Hinckley. As chip design grows increasingly complex, Mentor hopes emulation will take off.

"We're very interested in having numerous graduates from Portland State going out into the world and being familiar with the use of this relatively complex technology," Hinckley said.

Mentor is the largest pure technology company based in Oregon. It employs more than 1,000 at its Wilsonville headquarters, and its sales passed $1 billion for the first time last year.

But the past two decades have been uneven for Mentor, whose fortunes have risen and fallen with the cycles of the global electronics industry. Mentor hopes for sustained growth as products from semiconductors to cars and airplanes grow more sophisticated.

The PSU donation includes $700,000 over five years for the new faculty position, and $125,000 for a five-year license on technology developed in PSU's lab.

Portland State sees opportunity in the Silicon Forest, according to Renjeng Su, dean of the engineering school.

Though Oregon's tech industry has never fully recovered from the dot-com bust, the state remains a hub for electronics research and manufacturing, and Intel does its most advanced research at its Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro.

More than 1,000 of Intel's Oregon employees hold degrees from PSU, but the chipmaker still looks outside Oregon for most of its top engineers.

Working with Intel, Mentor, Tektronix and the region's other standouts represents an opportunity for PSU to capitalize and advance the private research already under way in Oregon, Su said.

"It needs a commensurate premier engineering school, computer science school, to support it," he said. "Portland State has to play up."

 

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National board accredits PSU’s Master of Architecture degree

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Portland State University’s new Master of Architecture degree has received initial accreditation, qualifying its graduates to pursue professional licenses in a strengthening job market.

The National Architecture Accrediting Board granted initial accreditation to the graduate program after five years of extensive evaluation. To become a licensed architect, students must earn a degree from an accredited professional program, complete internship hours and pass a licensing exam.

Employment prospects are improving for PSU’s architecture students as well, with 75 percent of the first graduating class in 2011 landing jobs.

“The professional degree accreditation has long been a focus for PSU and the architectural community,” said Barbara Sestak, AIA, dean of the College of the Arts. “We are absolutely delighted that it has come to fruition and that our partnerships have flourished and can continue to grow.”

The program’s accreditation coincides with a recent positive trend in the national architecture industry. Demand for design services is increasing, according to the American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Billings Index.

“Over the last couple of months, we are beginning to see an upturn in hiring,” said Saundra Stevens, executive vice president of AIA Portland and AIA Oregon. “We expect growth to be slow for a while, but Portland firms tend to be very deliberate about their hiring practices. Generally, when they hire, they are hiring for the long term.”

In view of its accreditation, the School of Architecture intends to expand admissions to the two-year Master of Architecture program for the fall of 2013. A second round of applications will be accepted through April 29. Details are at http://www.pdx.edu/architecture/how-to-apply-to-the-graduate-program-in-architecture" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

This news follows another welcome development for the program: The former Department of Architecture was recently elevated to become the School of Architecture, under the newly named College of the Arts (formerly the School of Fine and Performing Arts).

 

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This is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for a School of Architecture. It was a war with UO and the State Board, who argued that duplicating UO's school of Architecture was unnecessary. The old "non-duplication" argument is now - obviously - dead. My hat's off to Rudy Barton, who tenaciously hung in there all those years.

 

[BroadwayVik]

Here's the S.O.B. that started that campaign of anti-duplication with the Legislature back in the '50s.

 

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PSU launches athletic and outdoor industry certificate program

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Sports management programs have sprouted at universities across the United States. Few are better known than the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon.
But Portland State University believes it has found a niche that is not addressed elsewhere and is a natural in a neighborhood that includes Nike, Adidas and Columbia Sportswear, among others.

The university's Center for Retail Leadership is launching a certificate program aimed at preparing students to work in Oregon's athletic and outdoor industries. Enrollment begins this fall.

"We are right in the center of where the businesses are," said Lauren Beitelspacher, director of the athletic and outdoor industry certificate program.

A Portland Development Commission-funded study of the industry said Oregon has more than 800 athletic and outdoor industry companies, with total employment of more than 14,000. The average wage, the study said, is more than $80,000 annually, 70 percent higher than the statewide average for all workers.

Coursework for the certificate will center on major competitive issues in the industry with an emphasis on marketing, retailing, distribution and sales.

Other sports programs at colleges and universities focus on management of the sports themselves or product design, said Beitelspacher, an assistant professor of marketing.

"The whole premise of our program is giving them basic skill sets," she said.

The program will include guest lecturers from companies such as Nike, Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Keen, Gerber Legendary Blades, Icebreaker, The Clymb and Mizuno, the university says in a news release.

A pair of Nike veterans are teaching a class this quarter that will be part of the certificate program, "Channel Management in the Athletic and Outdoor Industry." The instructors are Patty Ross, vice president of global process innovation, and Grant Barth, a former global apparel leader for outdoorwear and outdoor who now works for Levi Strauss.

"The athletic and outdoor industry is a cornerstone of Oregon's business community," Barth says in a PSU news release. "We see this program offering a significant training foundation for building local talent."

All 35 slots are filled for the channel management class, which explores the process of bringing a product idea to manufacturing and to market.

And a class Beitelspacher, a taught earlier this year, "Competitive Dynamics in the Athletic and Outdoor Industry," also was fully enrolled.

She expects all of the 25 openings in the certificate program to be filled for the inaugural program this fall. An estimated 100 students are expected to graduate from the program in the next five years.

The Center for Retail Leadership, part of PSU's School of Business Administration, was created in the 1990s to focus on Oregon's food industry.

 

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Hidden in plain sight: PSU eyes hotel for redevelopment

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University Place Hotel likely has a date with a wrecking ball — some day — as Portland State University moves to redevelop the four-acre site to better suit its purposes.
PSU selected Johnson-Reid, a Portland real estate and land use consulting firm, to develop a best-use plan for the hotel property, 310 S.W. Lincoln St. PSU bought the 235-room former Red Lion Hotel from the Portland Development Commission for $23 million in 2004 to secure the hotel and surrounding land for future development.
Trimet, which is constructing a Max station for its Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Line directly across from the hotel entrance, is funding the $150,000 study.
Johnson-Reid is charged with identifying the best ways to add commercial and educational space in the neighborhood, which serves as a transitional zone between PSU’s downtown campus and the nearby South Waterfront. The new Max line opens in 2015, bringing fresh interest in the South Auditorium area.
Business Journal subscribers can learn more about PSU’s plans in Friday’s edition of the paper. Hint, the sprawling 1970-built hotel won’t be in the package.

 

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Downtown's PSU District Gets a Makeover
The city's southern end is waking up, with new projects aiming to tap the college-crowd population boom

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IS THE SOUTH END of downtown ready to become Oregon’s most densely populated district?

5,100 people inhabit the 50-acre area. Portland State has more than 29,000 students; by 2025, the school projects it will enroll 50,000. Already, PSU boasts one of the state’s busiest transit hubs and the new Milwaukie-bound Orange Line’s arrival in 2015 will amp up the district’s role as a metro-wide magnet.

Here’s a peek at the transformation to come:

1. ST. MARY’S EXPANSION
In September 2013, the private high school purchased the former University Station block for $7.6 million to accommodate its growing student body.

2. NEW PSU BUSINESS SCHOOL
Located in the heart of campus, at Sixth and Harrison, the current business school will double its size with 95,000 additional square feet, and bring the School of Education under the same roof. (cost: $60 million)

3. VIKING PAVILION
PSU’s ancient gym will be reborn as the $44-million Viking Pavilion, with a 5,500-seat basketball arena and concert venue.

4, NEW APARTMENTS
An eight-story, 54-unit apartment building, with First National Taphouse on the ground floor

5. NEW LINCOLN STREET MAX STOP
Already completed but not opening until 2015. TriMet estimates up to 32 buses and 12 trains an hour will travel along this formerly sleepy stretch of downtown.

6 FORMER UNIVERSITY PLACE HOTEL
Proposals are being gathered for this plot next to the Lincoln Street MAX stop, likely to be redeveloped as a mix of office, residential, and retail space.

 

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PSU to receive $2 million grant to improve science education and retention

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Portland State University (PSU) will receive a $2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for a project to improve the teaching of science at the undergraduate level and raise student success in the sciences.

PSU was one of 37 research universities throughout the country chosen by HHMI to receive grants to improve science education. The awards were announced last week. The grant initiative is intended to help schools focus on significant, sustained improvement in retaining students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

Each of the 37 colleges will receive five-year grants ranging from $1.2 to $2.4 million. They were selected after three rounds of peer review from among 170 applicants.

PSU’s project is hoped to decrease the student failure rate in key science and mathematics courses, increase the rate at which students continue through course sequences, improve their learning experiences and help them develop a “positive science identity.”

A big part of achieving these goals will be to introduce a more collaborative approach to the teaching of science at PSU in which students will engage with each other in discussing real-world problems. All students – but especially underrepresented minorities who often don’t see themselves as future scientists – will benefit from this hands-on approach rather than traditional lecture style teaching, said PSU chemistry professor Gwen Shusterman who applied for the grant.

Shusterman said this collaborative approach – called “student talk” – mimics the way scientists do research, and by shifting to this style she’s hoping students will get hooked on science earlier in their academic careers.

“We’re trying to change the perceptions about what science is,” Shusterman said. “Science is not just a bunch of facts. It’s about real problems. By being presented with problems students can relate to in their everyday lives, they will be more engaged and the information they learn will be more retainable.”

Part of the grant will pay for a new assistant professor at PSU specializing in how science is taught. PSU also will hold seminars over the summer to train faculty in collaborative teaching styles.

 

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PSU youth program receives $2M Conrad Hilton Foundation grant

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A program based at Portland State University that helps teenagers caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol and crime, has received a $2 million grant to expand substance use and mental health treatment for at-risk youth.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded PSU’s Reclaiming Futures program the grant to advance its public health approach to juvenile justice reform.
The three-year investment allows Reclaiming Futures to pilot and adapt its “Screening , Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment” program (known as SBIRT).
The Reclaiming Futures program operates at 39 sites in 18 states. The grant allows it to pilot the treatment program at three existing sites and two new ones. The goal is to reach youth when they are at risk, but before they are fully in the criminal justice system.
“SBIRT is going to be a new innovation to address many more youth who fall through the cracks,” said Susan Richardson, Reclaiming Futures’ national executive director.
Each of the pilot sites will serve at least 100 youth. The target population are those who show mild to moderate levels of substance use, a population that often doesn’t qualify for or seek treatment but who are at risk of developing worse problems down the line.
“The person who does the screening goes right into a treatment session,” said Evan Elkin, clinical director for the initiative. “We’re going to try it upstream before they’re fully in trouble.”

 

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Daily Journal of Commerce: Redevelopment in the works near PSU

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The Portland Development Commission’s board last week adopted a resolution authorizing Executive Director Patrick Quinton to enter a disposition and development agreement with Portland State University to redevelop several properties within the University District area and University Place.

“The DDA with PSU allows some property, currently owned by PDC, to be transferred or sold to PSU for redevelopment,” PDC spokesman Shawn Uhlman said. “PDC has committed funding to several projects with PSU.”

There are six projects on which PSU and PDC are collaborating. As part of the adopted resolution, PDC agreed that no portion of the public money PDC awards will be used “exclusively for education purposes, but rather will be incorporated into a project in conjunction with PSU funds in a way which preserves the use of those assets contributed by PDC for non-education purposes.”

The first project will be construction of a Graduate School of Education on a half-block at Southwest Park Avenue and Mill Street – currently, the site is home of the Extended Studies Building. The school is planning to request for the project state money from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. If funding is approved, construction would begin in 2017 and wrap up in mid-2018. Portland’s Office of Management and Finance has executed a letter of intent with PSU to occupy at least 30,000 square feet of space in the new building. The PDC has agreed to provide nonfinancial assistance by structuring the disposition and transfer of site ownership to PSU.

The second project, at PSU’s School of Business Administration, will include large-scale renovations to an existing 97,000-square-foot building and construction of an additional 38,000 square feet. The PDC committed to contribute $2 million in tax increment financing (TIF) to assist in the renovation. This project could be delivered by fall 2017.

The completion dates for the final four projects are further out, with the Jasmine project (late 2020) scheduled as the first. That multi-use development will feature commercial and educational space. The PDC will provide nonfinancial support in the form of assistance in disposition and transference of the site to PSU to add taxable value for generation of TIF revenue.

Plans aren’t set yet for about a quarter-block – currently owned by TriMet – at the corner of Southwest Lincoln Street and Fourth Avenue. The project, which is scheduled for completion in mid-2026, would provide “an opportunity to create a synergy between PSU-owned properties adjacent to TriMet-owned properties.” The PDC plans call for PSU and TriMet to jointly lead a process to identify possible interim uses for the property before construction begins in 2023. As part of the agreement, the PDC will try to secure development and ownership rights of the parcel from TriMet in order to make TIF funding available to PSU in the amount of the fair market value of the property. If the PDC is unable to reach an agreement with TriMet, PSU will be obligated to construct taxable, TIF-generating commercial space on the site in order to pay for the purchase.

The PDC has committed at least $1.8 million to help pay for the University Place Project on a 3.86-acre parcel at 310 S.W. Lincoln St. PSU hopes to attract a development partner that is interested in creating a dense, mixed-use development on the site.

In the agreement, PSU agrees to meet with the PDC as soon as a concept plan for the site is developed to discuss whether the school would like to include non-student affordable housing that would receive funds from the Portland Housing Bureau. Construction is scheduled to start in early 2019 and deliver in mid-2021.

The final development of the agreement is the Fourth Avenue Project; construction isn’t scheduled to begin for nearly a decade, according to PDC documents. The building at 1900 S.W. Fourth Ave. houses part of PSU’s Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. The project involves renovating and possibly expanding the building to accommodate new research and commercial activities. The development is scheduled for completion in mid-2026.

 

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Keck Foundation gives $300,000 to Portland State to create architecture research lab

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Portland State partnership awarded $1 million for math education leadership program

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Portland State launches new public policy masters degree program, starting fall 2015

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PSU's new Master's program aims to make ripples in Oregon policy

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PSU project lands $945,000 federal emergency recovery grant

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The Federal Transit Administration has announced a $945,000 grant for a Portland State University project to help transportation agencies respond to regional emergencies. The project is led by TREC (the transportation research and education center for PSU), with partners TriMet, the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management and Metro.

The announcement came as part of $29 million in grants through the FTA’s Innovative Safety, Resiliency, and All-Hazards Emergency Response and Recovery Demonstration program. The grants will help transit agencies improve safety, better withstand natural disasters, and respond more effectively to emergencies. A list of selected projects is available online.

The TREC project will develop and test a transportation demand management system that uses social media and intelligent transportation systems for large-scale emergency response and recovery. While managing demand is a cornerstone of campaigns to reduce private vehicle trips, it is often absent from emergency recovery plans, said project lead John MacArthur.

“This looks at how transit can be a reliable backbone to keep a city functioning,” MacArthur said. “That means during the response period, but also during recovery, which can last a long time.”

Agency partners expressed enthusiasm for the collaborative approach to an issue they all face.

“TriMet provides shelter buses for small-scale emergencies such as apartment fires, but after a large-scale incident such as an earthquake, TriMet will be critical in helping get the region moving again, getting workers back to their job sites, getting residents to needed resources.” said Harry Saporta, TriMet executive director of safety and security. “This grant will help our region plan effectively for those challenges.”

In addition to setting up a system in the Portland area, the project will also help up to six other agencies across the country implement their own systems.

The Portland State grant is one of 13 grants in nine states and the only one in the Northwest. The projects reflect the safety focus of the entire U.S. Department of Transportation, said Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “Safety is our highest priority at DOT, and we are committed to ensuring that public transportation remains one of the safest ways to travel in the United States,” Foxx said.

“These grants will help transit agencies utilize the latest, most innovative technologies available to reduce collisions, protect track workers, improve operations during emergencies and natural disasters, and maintain equipment and infrastructure.”

About TREC
TREC is the transportation research and education center for Portland State University. TREC administers two main programs and several smaller grants and projects. The center houses:
The National Institute for Transportation and Communities, or NITC, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s national center for livable communities. NITC provides grants for transportation research, education and technology transfer projects.
The Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation, which shares active transportation insight with professionals and educators through training opportunities, conferences and outreach.