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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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Building Better Brain Implants
Knight Campus researcher Felix Deku is designing tech to relieve symptoms of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, depression, and more with an engineering philosophy that centers on iterative design
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Graduate Student Association welcomes spring with art social
The Knight Campus Graduate Student Association (GSA) held an art social at Oakshire Brewing
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Romanowicz Awarded Prestigious NIH K99 Grant
The first K99 at the Knight Campus, the award promises to further researchers' understanding of factors controlling local bone immune response and regeneration
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Guldberg Joins TEDxPortland Lineup
Knight Campus Executive Director Bob Guldberg is one of 12 featured speakers at TEDxPortland's upcoming April 27 talk at Portland's Keller Auditorium. The lineup was announced on Monday, Feb. 12.
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Ten Years of Learning and Growing at Genomics in Action

Conference continues to connect Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program students, alumni, partners, and the scientific community

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Calin Plesa recognized for excellence in mentoring
The Knight Campus synthetic biologist receives both a 2023 Knight Campus Innovation and Impact Award and a thesis advising award from Clark Honors College
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CFAR Project Incubator artist Hiba Ali
Hiba Ali is the fourth artists to be featured in the CFAR Project Incubator series this academic year. The series is a partnership between the Knight Campus and the College of Design / Center for Art Research (CFAR).
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10th annual Genomics in Action explores next big data science challenges
The conference, set for Feb 1-2 at the Knight Campus, provides an opportunity for scientists from across disciplines to connect with each other and with those who are putting research into practice in both the clinic and in industry
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X-ray Imaging Core Facility Contributed to Study of Rare Fossilized Insect Eggs
Newly Published Research examining 29-million-year-old fossilized grasshopper eggs found in Oregon benefitted from CT scans conducted by Senior Research Engineer Angela Lin
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Deku Receives New Named Professorship

Microfabrication expert and neuroengineer Felix Deku is the inaugural recipient of the Betsy and Greg Hatton Assistant Professorship of Neuroengineering

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