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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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Meet Colin Bredenberg

Colin Bredenberg recently began his work in the Knight Campus using artificial intelligence to understand learning and synaptic plasticity in the brain. His research sits at the intersection of artificial and biological intelligence.

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Meet Zoé Christenson Wick

Zoé Christenson Wick recently opened her Knight Campus lab where she and her team are investigating how the timing of neural activity contributes to healthy brain function and build better therapies for epilepsy and age-related cognitive decline.

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Knight Campus Research Featured in Oregon Historical Society Exhibit Celebrating UO's 150th Anniversary
The University of Oregon's Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is prominently featured in a new Oregon Historical Society exhibit marking 150 years of the University of Oregon
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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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