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.

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.  

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. 

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.

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. 

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

Marian Hettiaratchi, Ph.D., was recently promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure in the Department of Bioengineering.

The Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars program was recently highlighted in Oregon News, spotlighing how the program offers research training and experience for undergraduate students.