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Listening in on the Brain's Electrical Conversations with Better Tools

New tools for recording brain activity, developed in the Knight Campus lab of Felix Deku, could one day decode Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

The human brain contains more connections between neurons than there are stars in the Milky Way. Decoding the electrical activity behind all those cells is the massive task that excites neural engineers like Felix Deku, who are working to build better tools for recording brain activity.

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OBS hits Knight Campus this Friday
The fifth annual symposium will be one of the largest events ever hosted at Knight Campus. Members of our community should expect an increase in parking use and crowds moving through the main floors and skybridge throughout the day.
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Application window open for KCUS
The Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars program is accepting applications for students until Nov. 26 and mentors by Dec. 1.
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CFAR Project Incubator artist Brian Gillis
Brian Gillis is the first of four artists to be featured in the CFAR Project Incubator series this year. The series is a partnership between the Knight Campus and the College of Design / Center for Art Research (CFAR). Gillis series, titled "Service Objects," will conclude on Nov. 3.
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KCGIP awarded $1 million Future Ready Oregon grant
The grant is awarded as part of Future Ready Oregon, a program that supports the education and training of historically underserved Oregonians for meaningful careers in healthcare, manufacturing, and technology industries.
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Impact Week 2023 jumpstarts grad training for incoming Ph.D. bioengineering students
Another installment of Impact Week — the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering’s signature orientation and training program for incoming Ph.D. students — unfolded for the latest cohort of future innovators
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Knight Campus iGEM team set for Paris
The undergraduate research team, paired with graduate students in Knight Campus labs, is working on a genetically engineered probiotic that targets the H.pylori bacterium, which infects roughly half the world's population.
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Micro-3D printing pioneer Paul Dalton receives research professorship
A pioneer in micro-3D printing, Paul Dalton is the second recipient of the Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professorship In Transformational Science and Mathematics
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Alliance at Oregon Hosts Undergraduate Fellowship Symposium
The Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon presented its Undergraduate Fellowship Symposium on Sept. 18 in the Beetham Family Seminar Room at the Knight Campus.
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OBS Early Bird Pricing Ends Sept. 15
Full-price registration goes into effect after Sept. 15 for the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium. This year's conference theme is Translating Ideas into Practice.
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Pitch Perfect
New research through the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance tackles the problem of ACL tears disproportionately affecting female athletes in soccer

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