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Oregon's key stakeholders in K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education meet at third annual STEMposium, sponsored by Intel PORTLAND, Ore., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Portland Metro STEM Partnership and key sponsor Intel will hold the third annual Intel STEMposium on April 26, 2013, at Quatama Elementary School in Hillsboro, Ore. The Portland Metro STEM Partnership is a collective impact partnership comprising public and private...
Zipcar, ECOtality and Portland State University working together to provide increased sustainable transportation options for Portland residents CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zipcar, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZIP), the world's leading car sharing network, today announced the introduction of 2013 Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicles (BEV) into the Zipcar Portland fleet, with the first vehicles located at Portland State University (PSU). Charging stations for the EVs are provided...
BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, today announced that it has made a sizeable donation of more than $22,000 of equipment to the Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University (PSU). The donated equipment included oscilloscopes, probes, an arbitrary/function generator, a digital multimeter and laboratory grade power supplies. The...
BOULDER, Colo. and PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boulder Diagnostics Inc. and Portland State University (PSU) announced today the entry into a license and collaboration agreement to develop rapid diagnostic tests for homocysteine and related compounds based on a highly specific dye technology developed at PSU. Under the agreement Boulder will finance further research at the Department of Chemistry, and PSU will be entitled to royalties on future sales of the licensed...
The School of Business at the Portland State University and Salimetrics, LLC are collaborating to present a lecture-based “Spit Camp Workshop,†which will be held at the Portland State University on November 16th, 2011. Faculty and students who are interested in learning more about the basics of incorporating salivary analytes into their research are invited to attend this free presentation. State College, PA (PRWEB) November 06, 2011 Researchers in the Portland, Oregon area...
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To better understand the dynamic behavior of cities, the City of Portland and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have collaborated to develop an interactive model of the relationships that exist among the city's core systems, including the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services and utilities. The resulting computer simulation allowed Portland's leaders to see how city systems work together, and in turn...
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TechAmerica Oregon announced today the selection of Greg Hinckley, president of Wilsonville, Oregon-based Mentor Graphics, as the 2011 Technology Executive of the Year, and Dick Knight as the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Both awards will be presented at this year's Oregon Technology Awards ceremony to be held at the Portland Art Museum on May 19, 2011. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090319/TECHAMERICALOGO) "It...
Young women veterans are nearly three times as likely as civilians to commit suicide, according to new research published by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).The paper, "Self-Inflicted Deaths Among Women With U.S. Military Service: A Hidden Epidemic?" appears in the December 2010 issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal published by the American Psychiatric Association. This work is the first general population study of...
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayor Sam Adams and representatives of the Portland region's athletic and outdoor industry have released the results of the first comprehensive effort to understand the origins and interplay of the firms that comprise the industry throughout the Portland region and the state of Oregon. Business leaders joined the mayor, Portland Development Commission (PDC), Business Oregon and Oregon Business Council at the Athletic and Outdoor...
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Campus Management Corp., a leading provider of on-premise and on-demand software and services for higher education, announced today that Portland State University will deploy its Talisma® Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software. Talisma CRM will be used to advance the institution's admissions, recruitment and retention programs, in concert with the university's current legacy student information system (SIS), SunGard Banner. (Logo:...
