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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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Spring 2026 Robert Family Entrepreneurship Speaker Series recording is now live
A recording of Cambre Kelly's Spring 2026 Robert Family Entrepreneurship Speaker Series talk is available on the Knight Campus YouTube channel
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BRIN Students Showcase Original Brews at Eugene Beer Week
Students from the Brewing Innovation (BRIN) minor program put their craft to the test this week at Eugene Beer Week, contributing three original brews to the event hosted by Claim 52 brewing.
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Keller Receives Baxter Foundation Award
Sara Keller has received an award from the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation supporting her research developing new techniques and applications for ultrasound to treat medical device-associated infections.
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Peeler Awarded Baxter Foundation Funding
David Peeler has received an award from the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation funding the development of targeted therapies programming the innate immune system to fight cancer and infectious disease.
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Celebrating Spring PhD Graduates
We celebrated our spring 2026 PhD graduates, Andrew Powers and Kaylee Meyers.
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Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program Welcomes Its 2026 Cohort
A total of 92 new students will arrive in Eugene to begin their journey at the Knight Campus, including 21 Bioinformatics & Genomics students, 20 Optical Materials & Devices students, 19 Polymer Science students, 20 Semiconductor students, and 12 Molecular Sensors & Biotechnology students.
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2026 Science Knight Out Talk Now Live
A recording of the tenth anniversary of Science Knight Out is available on YouTube.
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Lindberg and Dalton Receive Research Seed Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Bioengineers Lindberg and Dalton have received OPVRI seed funding to develop implantable conduits that capture glioblastoma cells and could one day limit brain tumor growth.
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Brewing Innovation Tasting Student Showcase Set for June 2
The Brewing Innovation Tasting Student Showcase will be a part of Eugene Beer Week at Claim 52 Brewing from 5-7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2
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How neuroscientists are parsing birdsongs to better understand human speech
A new tool developed at the Knight Campus called TweetyBERT, can automatically segment and classify the songs of canaries, and it might change our understanding of how the brain learns and processes language.

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