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Profile: Rachel Benson
A Pipeline for STEM Students
When it comes to education and training for STEM careers after high school, not all students receive the support they need to succeed. A recently funded National Science Foundation grant hopes to remedy that for 64 low-income students in Oregon.
Christina Rozeske
Profile: Christina Rozeske
I was intrigued by the program's focus on industry and preparing students for well-rounded careers by providing the technical training as well as the professional training needed to succeed.
Audrey Gill
Profile: Audrey Gill
I completed a master's in statistics prior to joining the program. As a statistics research assistant, I started using bioinformatics pipelines to build miRNA and tumor suppressor gene relational networks
2019 networking event

The 2019 Networking Interview Event hosted 54 interviewing teams from 32 companies over three days, September 9-11, at the Erb Memorial Union on campus. Students were abuzz as they interviewed and networked with industry and national lab professionals from all over the country. Recruitment teams came from both far and near with both coasts represented and a number of states in between- California, Idaho, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas, Oregon and Washington.

Profile: Barrett Unger
Barrett Unger always knew he wanted to work in science. Maybe as a marine biologist or a vet. Maybe a doctor. But when he enrolled at DePaul University in Chicago, he didn’t actually declare a major.
UO ranks No. 1 in US for Master’s degree in physics
For the fifth year in a row, the UO has conferred the most master’s degrees in physics in the country. Twenty six of those were awarded to students in the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, part of the Phil & Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.