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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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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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Knight Campus Researchers Engineer Molecules That Stagger the Release of Regenerative Cues

By engineering highly targeted molecules, called affibodies, and controlling when they release regenerative cues, researchers from the Marian Hettiaratchi Lab, are developing ways to help muscle, bone, and spinal cord injuries heal better and faster.

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Ambati's TEDxPortland Talk Now Streaming
Knight Campus research professor Bala Ambati's April 11, 2026, TEDxPortland talk, "The Ticking Time Bomb of Childhood Nearsightedness," is now streaming on the TEDx YouTube page
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Knight Campus to Benefit from New NSF Semiconductor Funding

The Knight Campus will benefit directly and indirectly from recently announced funding from a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engine award. As part of FAST (Frontiers of Advanced Semiconductor Technology), the UO and its statewide collaborators represent one of 12 nationwide partners in the program.

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Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering to Welcome Two New Faculty Members

Neuroscientists Colin Bredenberg and Zoé Christenson Wick will join the department in September 2026, bringing research with the potential to deepen understanding of the neural basis of learning and neurodegenerative aging.

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