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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 iGEM team set for Paris
The undergraduate research team, paired with graduate students in Knight Campus labs, is working on a genetically engineered probiotic that targets the H.pylori bacterium, which infects roughly half the world's population.
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Micro-3D printing pioneer Paul Dalton receives research professorship
A pioneer in micro-3D printing, Paul Dalton is the second recipient of the Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professorship In Transformational Science and Mathematics
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Alliance at Oregon Hosts Undergraduate Fellowship Symposium
The Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon presented its Undergraduate Fellowship Symposium on Sept. 18 in the Beetham Family Seminar Room at the Knight Campus.
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OBS Early Bird Pricing Ends Sept. 15
Full-price registration goes into effect after Sept. 15 for the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium. This year's conference theme is Translating Ideas into Practice.
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Pitch Perfect
New research through the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance tackles the problem of ACL tears disproportionately affecting female athletes in soccer
The Pop-up camps offer recreational sports, such as soccer and dodgeball.
Wu Tsai Partners with KIDSPORTS
Now in its third year, the summer camp partnership between the the Human Performance Alliance at Oregon and KIDSPORTS helps encourage activity and physical fitness for kids
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Benoit honored as Biomedical Engineering Society fellow
Danielle Benoit, Lorry Lokey Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the Knight Campus, has been elected to the 2023 class of Biomedical Engineering Society Fellows.
Students from the 2023 cohort of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program climb the stairs on their first day of classes on June 21, 2023
KCGIP Professional Development Week
The Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program welcomed its latest academic cohort of 83 students in June with a Professional Development and Orientation Week designed to support students in the accelerated master’s program as well as their future careers.
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Oregon Bioengineering Symposium early bird pricing
Registration for the fifth annual symposium is now open. The final weeks of early bird registration is available until Sept. 15, offering participants the opportunity to secure their spots at a discounted rate.
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Sparking STEM dreams
Local Spark program brings dozens of high school students to tour Knight Campus, including Dalton Lab and the Fabrication Lab, to encourage interest in STEM education and jobs.

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