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Sign at entry to Portland State University (2004)
The entrance to Portland State University.

Portland State University is a public university in Portland, Oregon. The university has about 27,972 students. It was founded in 1946. The current president of the university is Wim Wiewel.

Sports

The men's athletics teams of the university are called the Vikings. They have 14 varsity teams and they compete in the Big Sky Conference.


Images for kids

  • Portland State 1969

    Students changing the institution sign after being granted university status by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, 1969

  • Shattuck Hall-2

    Shattuck Hall, home to the university's school of architecture

  • Portland State Sky Bridge

    The university's motto on a campus skybridge over SW Broadway St.

  • Millar Library (Portland State University)

    Millar Library viewed from entrance

  • PSU-EB2

    Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science

  • Portland State University Campus OR - OpenStreetMap

    Campus map

  • Simon Benson House-1

    Simon Benson House, alumni and visitors' center

  • St. Helens Courtyard

    St. Helens Court, residence hall at Portland State University

  • Shattuck Hall Ecological Learning Plaza

    Shattuck Hall Ecological Learning Plaza

  • PSU-HGCDC

    The Helen Gordon Child Development Center offers preschool for children of Portland State students and faculty.

  • Queer Resource Center, PSU (2014) - 4

    Campus Queer Resource Center

  • Portland Street Car

    Portland Streetcar at the university's Urban Plaza

  • Jan30-2020 Viking Pavilion

    The Viking Pavilion is home to Vikings basketball and volleyball.

  • Keynote speaker Margaret Carter (8113364377)

    Margaret Carter, politician

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    Sho Dozono, entrepreneur

  • Evan Jager 2016

    Evan Jager, distance runner

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    Travis Knight, animator; president and CEO of Laika

  • Joseph Evan LeBaron

    Joseph LeBaron, former ambassador to the State of Qatar

  • Life Ball 2014 Courtney Love Crop

    Courtney Love, singer and musician

  • Caroline McGowan2 (cropped)

    Caroline McGowan, pageant contestant, Miss Oregon 2011

  • Charles Moose

    Charles Moose, police chief in charge of combating 2002 D.C. sniper attacks

  • Governor Barbara Roberts

    Barbara Roberts, 34th Governor of Oregon

  • DeShawn Shead 2015

    DeShawn Shead, NFL player (Seattle Seahawks)

  • Esperanza Spalding July 15, 2009

    Esperanza Spalding, musician

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    Nancy Wilson, singer and musician

  • PeterBoghossian

    Peter Boghossian, professor of philosophy

  • Paul Collins crop

    Paul Collins, writer and Guggenheim Fellow

  • 2014 Pop Conference - Sarah Dougher 01

    Sarah Dougher, musician and women's studies scholar

  • Andrew Hill

    Andrew Hill, pianist and composer

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    Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike

  • Ivan Sutherland at CHM

    Ivan Sutherland, Turing Award-winning computer scientist

See also

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