Explore " portland state university" with insightful episodes like "Episode 10 - PSU President Dr. Ann Cudd", "Episode 9 - Academics and Advising", "Episode 8 - PSU Athletics", "Episode 7 - Diversity and Student Resources" and "Episode 6 - Mental Health and SHAC" from podcasts like ""Ship Talk - A Portland State University Admissions Podcast", "Ship Talk - A Portland State University Admissions Podcast", "Ship Talk - A Portland State University Admissions Podcast", "Ship Talk - A Portland State University Admissions Podcast" and "Ship Talk - A Portland State University Admissions Podcast"" and more!
After assuming the role as Portland State’s 11th president on August 1, Dr. Ann Cudd joins Stacey and Kanani to share her background and what made her want to lead the university. Get to meet President Cudd as she chats about her goals at PSU and all of the unique opportunities at Portland’s urban university. Plus, learn about what Dr. Cudd loves about Portland, her passion for athletics and fitness, and her incredible “summer project”.
Stacey and Kanani talk to Becki Ingersoll, Associate Director of Advising & Career Services, all about academic advising. What is it? How can it help students? And what are some requirements students will need to complete in order to graduate? Becki answers those questions and more and we explore the many academic programs and resources available for students at PSU.
Women’s Basketball Head Coach Chelsey Gregg and Men’s Basketball Head Coach Jase Coburn join Stacey and Kanani to talk about Viking athletics. Listen to hear about the state-of-the-art Viking Pavilion, how students can get involved with athletics at PSU, and some exciting moments for the men’s basketball team last year, including two wins against Oregon State and a viral buzzer beater that was the #1 play on Sportscenter and one of the most talked about plays in college basketball last season.
Stacey and Kanani are joined by Murph Murphy, the Director of Queer Student Services, and Ron Mansolilli, the Director of the Veterans Resource Center, to talk about the many resource centers and services available to students at Portland State. Students are supported by the University’s 12 resource centers – from the Cultural Resource Centers, to the Disability Resource Center, to the Resource Center for Students with Children, and more. Aimed at building community within and between groups, these centers serve as a space for students to relax in a safe space, talk to each other, host events, do advocacy work, and much more.
Special guests Marcy Hunt and Dana Tasson join us from SHAC, the Center for Student Health and Counseling at PSU. No matter their insurance, all students are welcome to visit SHAC – there is no office visit fee, and many services are provided free of charge. Medical services, mental health and counseling, dental care, and health education are just a few of the services that SHAC offers. Mental Health Support and Nurse Advice lines are available for students 24 hours a day, and more great offerings like the Mind Spa are available for all students.
Stacey and Kanani are joined by PSU alumni Eddie Ramirez, who tells the story of his journey to becoming a dentist. Eddie persevered through numerous obstacles to graduate from PSU in the Pre-Dentistry track as a leader in his community and became the first undocumented student to be accepted into the OHSU School of Dentistry. He reflects on how his experience at PSU shaped his journey and how the opportunities he received at PSU paved the way to his dream job. Now, Eddie sits on the advisory board of the Pre-Health Dreamers group, does advocacy work for undocumented pre-health students, and is a national leader with the American Dental Association while working as a dentist here in Portland.
Stacey and Kanani talk to Emily Sofich, Marketing & Transportation Options Coordinator, about the many transportation options for students at PSU. From discounted Max tickets, to affordable biking resources, to a wide range of resident and commuter parking permits, there’s something for everyone to get to campus and easily move about the Rose City. And, well, it’s Portland, so some of us get creative – like a faculty member who uses an… unconventional method to get across the river. For more information, visit pdx.edu/transportation.
Chris Bullard, Senior Coordinator for the Outdoor Program, joins us to talk about the Outdoor Program and Campus Recreation at PSU. We learn how students can explore Oregon’s great outdoors with the Outdoor Program’s many guided trips and gear rentals, from sea kayaking to snowboarding to climbing, no experience or special equipment necessary. Chris also tells us about the many offerings the recreation center provides, including the pool, climbing walls, weight rooms, indoor track, multi-use rooms, fitness and cardio machines, basketball court, and much more. Students can join an intramural or a pick-up game, attend a yoga class, and go bouldering – it's all included for students enrolled in just one credit or more."
Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Today, Emily chats with Artist & Portand State University Professor Taravat Talepasand.
About Artist Taravat Talepasand:
Taravat Talepasand is an artist, activist, and educator whose labor-intensive interdisciplinary painting practice questions normative cultural behaviors within contemporary power imbalances. As an Iranian-American woman, Talepasand explores the cultural taboos that reflect on gender and political authority. Her approach to figuration reflects the cross-pollination, or lack thereof, in our Western Society.
Visit Taravat's Website: www.TaravatTalepasand.com
Follow Taravat on Instagram: @artistvat
You can find her Exibit at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts through July 23. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.
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About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:
Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women’s Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.
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Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson.
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The Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions.
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Donna Myers joins us from the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships to show us how affordable a PSU education can be. With programs like Tuition Free Degree for Oregon residents, Washington Border Discount (WBD) and Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) for non-residents, Honors and International Scholarships, and many more opportunities in PSU Scholarship Universe, PSU has cost saving programs for all students. Donna also shares with us tips on how to earn and retain aid, navigate financial jargon, and the ways in which PSU helps students learn about financial planning for college life and beyond.
PSU’s Assistant Director for Housing Services, Dianne Arce, joins the show to break down the many affordable housing options available for students. Learn about PSU’s unique First Year Experience housing, options for transfer and continuing students to live on campus, honors college housing, and more. The hosts talk about their own experiences living on campus and how that greatly enhanced their college experience. Dianne also shares all the details you need to know about getting in your housing contract! For more information and to apply visit pdx.edu/housing and send questions you may have to housing@pdx.edu.
Ship Talk, a Portland State University Admissions Podcast, is a place for new students to learn all about what awaits them at PSU. Take a listen to a few of the topics that will be discussed over the course of the season. Subscribe to the podcast and follow @go2psu to keep up on everything you need to know about becoming a student at PSU!
In this episode, Abigail Favale talks with author, teacher, and philosopher Peter Boghossian about the culture wars. In a time of cancelling and defunding, critical theories and political extremism, tolerance and moral orthodoxy, how do we navigate the turbulent social and political scene we find ourselves in? Does the standard of reality depend upon individual experience or on hard data? What role are academic institutions playing in the rapidly occurring cultural shift?
Dr. Peter Boghossian's main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years and 30 thousand students - in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, universities, Fortune 100 companies, and small businesses. His fundamental objective is to teach people how to think through what often seem to be intractable problems. Peter's primary research areas are critical thinking and moral reasoning. His doctoral research studies, funded by the State of Oregon and supported by the Oregon Department of Corrections, consisted of using the Socratic method to help prison inmates to increase their critical thinking and moral reasoning abilities and to increase their desistance to criminal behavior. Peter’s writing has appeared in a large selection of publications, including The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others.
Dr. Abigail Favale completed her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she was a recipient of the competitive Overseas Research Award. In 2011, her dissertation was granted the Samuel Rutherford Prize for the most distinguished thesis in English literature.
To connect with Dr. Favale's work, visit her website.
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Single-photon camera sensors have the potential to revolutionize digital camera technology. These sensors can capture individual photons at high speeds, circumventing some of the limitations of current digital camera technologies. One challenge, however, is the sheer amount of data generated by the sensor, which is a hindrance to their widespread adoption. With the support of the National Science Foundation, Assistant Professor Atul Ingle is developing algorithms to solve this problem--algorithms that could enable the adoption of single-photon sensors in applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to medical imaging and the cameras in cellphones.
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What’s up with the big one? You know, that massive earthquake that is supposed to place downtown Portland at the center of a subduction zone? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Ashley Streig - a seismologist from Portland State University. She tells us all about what to expect from the west coast tectonic plates that are creating a time bomb under the Rose City.
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In this episode of Build Momentum, We are joined by Erin Merz. She is the Director of Marketing and Communications for Portland State University School of Business. She focuses on supporting the institution's recruitment and retention goals.
Erin has a passion for storytelling, a results-driven mindset, and a commitment to building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders that we look forward to digging into today. Erin is also an instructor for the essentials of marketing course at PSU
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“Imagery, I think, is just a very easy way to kind of describe it. But that's one project I've been working on. Yeah, I work for the School of Business, but it's a university wide initiative to be more thoughtful and think a little bit more critically about our imagery and how we're representing our students, and are we giving them ownership of their likeness. And that plays into systemic racism, because we don't want to take advantage of students of color, for example, and use them, you know, in a way that tokenizes them. ”
“Storytelling really helps showcase our values, the classroom experience, our faculty research.”
“ I just think it's so important to blend the data, the kind of value of the degree, the ROI of the degree with the people who are actually experiencing it.”
"It's marketing one on one, right, connecting to the hearts and the minds through whatever content you're putting out there."
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Since the term was coined in 1956, artificial intelligence has been a kind of mirror that tells us more about our theories of intelligence, and our hopes and fears about technology, than about whether we can make computers think. AI requires us to formulate and specify: what do we mean by computation and cognition, intelligence and thought? It is a topic rife with hype and strong opinions, driven more by funding and commercial goals than almost any other field of science...with the curious effect of making massive, world-changing technological advancements even as we lack a unifying theoretical framework to explain and guide the change. So-called machine intelligences are more and more a part of everyday human life, but we still don’t know if it is possible to make computers think, because we have no universal, satisfying definition of what thinking is. Meanwhile, we deploy technologies that we don’t fully understand to make decisions for us, sometimes with tragic consequences. To build machines with common sense, we have to answer fundamental questions such as, “How do humans learn?” “What is innate and what is taught?” “How much do sociality and evolution play a part in our intelligence, and are they necessary for AI?”
This week’s guest is computer scientist Melanie Mitchell, Davis Professor of Complexity at SFI, Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, founder of ComplexityExplorer.org, and author or editor of six books, including the acclaimed Complexity: A Guided Tour and her latest, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. In this episode, we discuss how much left there is to learn about artificial intelligence, and how research in evolution, neuroscience, childhood development, and other disciplines might help shed light on what AI still lacks: the ability to truly think.
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Janice Lee talks about her secret dance performances and how the music of "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" carries her through writing sessions. Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at Fanzine, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. After living for over 30 years in California, she recently moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University.
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