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Rahmat Soureshi starts tenure at Portland State with students at the center

August 16, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

OregonLive

By Andrew Theen

August 14, 2017

 

Rahmat Shoureshi spent his first morning as Portland State University's president riding the MAX and streetcar through downtown, and getting to know the three student tour guides who led him around his new city and campus.

By a quarter past noon Monday, the tour was finished and the welcome party started behind him at the university's urban plaza.  The crowd mingled and snagged cupcakes with PSU green frosting.  But Shoureshi, a soft-spoken mechanical engineer who's spent the past four decades in academia, lingered with the three students for one more picture.

Read the full article and see the pictures at the OregonLive website here.

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