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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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Moore Receives the Excellence Award in Mentorship for Graduate Student Mentors

Cameron Moore, a PhD candidate in the Benoit lab, received the Excellence Award in Mentorship for Graduate Student Mentors from the Division of Graduate Studies, for their peer mentorship and advocacy.

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Recalde Phillips Awarded 2026 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Award
Sarea Recalde Phillips, a postdoctoral scholar in the Benoit Lab, has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award to support her research and professional development.
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Mike Hahn Explains Why World Cup Pitches Feel Strange Underfoot

Mike Hahn, associate director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, discusses soccer biomechanics and why the 2026 World Cup pitches may feel unusual underfoot for athletes.

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Dalton Receives UO Innovation and Impact Award
Paul Dalton has been recognized with a 2026 Outstanding Research Awards from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
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Hosseinzadeh Receives UO Early Career Award
Parisa Hosseinzadeh has been recognized with a 2026 Outstanding Research Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
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IMPACT Team Receives Outstanding Research Community Award
The Knight Campus IMPACT Team has been recognized with an Outstanding Community Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
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IMPACT Team, Dalton, Hosseinzadeh Earn 2026 OPVRI Outstanding Research Awards
Parisa Hosseinzadeh received the Early-Career Award, the IMPACT Team received the award for Advancing a Flourishing Research and Innovation Community, and Paul Dalton was recognized with the Innovation and Impact Award.
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Minson Receives UO Senior Career Award

Christopher Minson, the Kenneth M. and Kenda H. Singer Endowed Professor of Physiology and a PI with the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon, has been recognized with the Senior Career Award, the UO’s highest faculty honor.

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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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