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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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Knight Campus Welcomes Visiting Undergraduates for Hands-On Lab Experience

The Department of Bioengineering’s New Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program offers mentorship, DEI-focused professional development, and momentum for rising scientists

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A New Scale of Biology: Massive Datasets are Aiding in the Fight Against Superbugs

New technology from the University of Oregon’s Knight Campus could help build large, biological datasets needed for machine learning to predict and prevent cancer, diseases, and bacteria resistant to antibiotics before they even emerge.

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Mike Hahn in Runner's World

Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon Associate Director Mike Hahn appeared in a recent edition of Runner’s World, discussing how elite runners stand out for their efficient mechanics and how simple tweaks to your stride can help you run faster and more efficiently.

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Anissa Benabbas Win the Science Coalition Video Challenge

Knight Campus graduate students Anissa Benabbas (Plesa Lab) and Malvika Singhal (Hettiaratchi Lab) took first place in the Science Coalition Student Video Challenge.

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KCGIP Launches Record-Setting 2025 Cohort

The Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program (KCGIP) welcomed a record-setting class of 94 new students for its 2025 master’s cohort — an increase of more than 6 percent over last year’s total.

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Wu Tsai Alliance Member, Jordan Troester, discusses what it’s like to be a sports scientist

Jordan Troester discusses his work at Oregon Athletics and Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon, what it’s like to be a sports scientist, he shares his advice to runners and debunks some common misconceptions about sports science and sports science research.  

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Mike Hahn Discusses Breaking4

Associate Director of the Oregon Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, Mike Hahn, discusses Faith Kipyegon’s historic attempt of a sub-4:00 mile on a recent podcast episode. 

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Plesa Receives the 2025 OVPRI Innovation and Impact Award

Calin Plesa, assistant professor of bioengineering, is recognized for his accomplishments as a nationally and internationally recognized leader in synthetic biology, gene synthesis, and protein engineering, and in particular, his role as co-founder, platform architect, and scientific advisor of SynPlexity, Inc.

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Lin Receives the 2025 OVPRI Career Research Faculty Award

Angela Lin, senior research engineer in the Guldberg Lab at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact and the director of the X-ray Imaging Research Core Facility, is recognized for the  2025 OVPRI Career Research Faculty Award. 

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Dalton Lab Welcomes Visiting Scholar Pascal Achenbach

Funded through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the six-month fellowship supports a collaboration to advance new strategies for neural regeneration

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