PSU Magazine Spring 2006

Supporting an outstanding faculty Portland State attracts an exceptional kind of individual to its faculty: entrep reneurial, proactive, and fired by a mis– sion to teach and conduct innovative research. These scholars inspire students and generate ideas that change the way we think and live. Endowments for professor– ships and chairs recruit and retain the faculty who lead PSU's Leaching and research agendas in areas vital to our regions economic and social well-being. ■ Left to right: graduate student Eric Hayden in Keck Geonomics Laboratory; Walk of the Hero– ines; and Brittany Ferry, Caroline P. Stoel fel– low in history. Expanding research horizons Portland State researchers develop new knowledge and find groundbreaking ways to advance industry, improve the quality of our lives, and sus– tain our planets resources. Research growth during the Building Our Future cam– paign-including projects involving cyber security, smart transportation, and biotech– nology-is bringing new research to market and strengthening the Universi ty's role as a powerful economic driver. ■ .,