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Knights commit $1 billion to establish a college of engineering at the UO

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $1 billion—the largest gift ever given to a comprehensive public university—to the University of Oregon, with the intention to establish a college of engineering located at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.The new college would educate engineers and applied scientists in bioengineering and other high-demand disciplines, attract faculty and researchers to a growing campus and accelerate the university’s ability to move discoveries out of the laboratory and into products, therapies, technologies and companies.

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IMPACT Team Receives Outstanding Research Community Award
The Knight Campus IMPACT Team has been recognized with an Outstanding Community Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
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Follow the Knight Campus 2026 Commencement

Watch the Live Stream and view the program for all of the Knight Campus' 2026 Commencement activities

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IMPACT Team, Dalton, Hosseinzadeh Earn 2026 OPVRI Outstanding Research Awards
Parisa Hosseinzadeh received the Early-Career Award, the IMPACT Team received the award for Advancing a Flourishing Research and Innovation Community, and Paul Dalton was recognized with the Innovation and Impact Award.
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Minson Receives UO Senior Career Award

Christopher Minson, the Kenneth M. and Kenda H. Singer Endowed Professor of Physiology and a PI with the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon, has been recognized with the Senior Career Award, the UO’s highest faculty honor.

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Spring 2026 Robert Family Entrepreneurship Speaker Series recording is now live
A recording of Cambre Kelly's Spring 2026 Robert Family Entrepreneurship Speaker Series talk is available on the Knight Campus YouTube channel
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BRIN Students Showcase Original Brews at Eugene Beer Week
Students from the Brewing Innovation (BRIN) minor program put their craft to the test this week at Eugene Beer Week, contributing three original brews to the event hosted by Claim 52 brewing.
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Keller Receives Baxter Foundation Award
Sara Keller has received an award from the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation supporting her research developing new techniques and applications for ultrasound to treat medical device-associated infections.
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Peeler Awarded Baxter Foundation Funding
David Peeler has received an award from the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation funding the development of targeted therapies programming the innate immune system to fight cancer and infectious disease.
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Celebrating Spring PhD Graduates
We celebrated our spring 2026 PhD graduates, Andrew Powers and Kaylee Meyers.
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Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program Welcomes Its 2026 Cohort
A total of 88 new students will arrive in Eugene to begin their journey at the Knight Campus, including 20 Bioinformatics & Genomics students, 20 Optical Materials & Devices students, 17 Polymer Science students, 20 Semiconductor students, and 11 Molecular Sensors & Biotechnology students.

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