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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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Introducing the 2026-27 GSA Executive Board
The Knight Campus Graduate Student Association (GSA) has announced its Executive Board for the 2026-2027 Academic Year.
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Applications Now Open for KCUS Scholars, Mentors
Applications are now open for undergraduate scholars and grad student/postdoc/faculty mentors for the Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars (KCUS) program.
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Christenson Wick featured in The Transmitter’s “Liftoff” new lab alert
In the Q&A, Christenson Wick describes her research, the lab culture she hopes to build, the best advice she got before opening her lab and other insights.
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Knight Campus team probes how a genetic ‘stutter’ drives a leading cause of corneal transplants

Researchers in the Ambati lab have received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular origins of late-onset Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy.

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Hettiaratchi Receives NSF I-Corps Award
Marian Hettiaratchi received a $50,000 NSF I-Corps award to explore the commercial potential of a material developed in her lab.
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Benoit Receives NIH Award for Complex Injury Research
Danielle Benoit received a $333,508 NIH award to study a targeted drug delivery approach for complex injuries that damage both muscle and bone.
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Putting New BioFoundry Tools to Work
The BioFoundry has acquired two new tools from CellScale, permitting mechanical testing in aqueous environments, the CellScale MicroTester and the CellScale UniVert.
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Hettiaratchi One of Four Scientists to be Honored by Medical Research Foundation of Oregon
Marian Hettiaratchi, Lary Simpson Professor and Associate Professor in the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering, will receive the Richard T. Jones New Investigator Award during an Oct. 1, 2026 ceremony at the OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
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Peak Oregon

The University of Oregon announces Peak Oregon, a Partnership to Supercharge Sports with Science. The $5 million lead gift will unite scientists, engineers, clinicians, and performance experts in translating research into real-world results starting with Oregon's student-athletes and expanding to athletes at all skills and ages.

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Ambati Featured in Eugene Weekly
Knight Campus Research Professor Bala Ambati was profiled in the Aug. 27 edition of the Eugene Weekly. Among other things, Ambati discussed becoming a Guinness World Record holder for being the world’s youngest doctor, and his move to Eugene to pursue his research at the Knight Campus.

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