Knight Campus Starbucks now open for business

Starbucks at Knight Campus sign

The UO’s newest Starbucks is now open inside the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact,

Located on the west side of the ground floor, the coffee shop is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Drinks and food items are available for pre-order through the Starbucks mobile app.

The Knight Campus public spaces found on the basement to second floor are open to the UO community from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and can be accessed from ground floor entrances on the east and west sides of the building or via the sky bridge from the Lewis Integrative Science Building. The bridge is unlocked 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

Registration is still available for two upcoming Knight Campus events happening this week. Both are hybrid events and will be streamed live. Registration is required for in-person attendance. See the links below to register:

  • The annual Distinguished Lecture with guest, Dr. Karen L. Wooley takes place from 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in the Beetham Family Seminar Room with a reception to follow. Dr. Wooley holds the W.T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. The talk, “Synthetic Strategies to Afford Natural Product-Based Polymer Materials: Impacts on Sustainability, Life, Health and the Environment,” will highlight synthetic strategies for the development of polymers, block polymers and crosslinked network materials, which can be produced by relatively simple approaches from glucose and can be made to exhibit a range of properties. Registration for in-person attendance is required.
  • The Entrepreneur Speaker Series with guest speaker Chris Gibson, Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion, happens from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 in the Beetham Family Seminar Room. The talk, “The Serendipity of Failure; A Journey from Graduate Student to Biotech CEO,” will highlight the serendipity of science and failure, and the role each played in the journey Dr. Gibson took from an MD/PhD student to CEO of a multibillion dollar public biotech company. Registration for in-person attendance is required.