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Knight Campus Executive Director Bob Guldberg joined UO leaders to help present UO President Scholtz's strategic planning initiative to the Board of Trustees at their quarterly meeting on Dec. 10, 2024.
Knight Campus assistant professor Calin Plesa has received a $75,000 grant from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust through its Commercialization Initiation Program
Kylie Williams, a PhD candidate in the Guldberg Lab, successfully defended her dissertation. She will become the first student to receive a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Knight Campus
Three Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering graduate students received awards at the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium
ClearMark Biosciences, a startup company founded by two students with Knight Campus ties, won the Grand Prize at the 2024 iGEM Startup Showcase
Students and faculty from the UO and the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering are presenting at the Sixth Annual Oregon Bioengineering Symposium at Oregon Health & Science University on Nov. 15, 2024.

Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholar Oliver Loreto has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the world’s oldest international fellowship award.

The UO iGEM team, advised by Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering assistant professor Calin Plesa, competed at the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris in October and brought home a silver medal in the Infectious Diseases category.
Graduate students in the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering partnered with grad students from the Department of Human Physiology to form a cross-departmental local recreational soccer team through City of Eugene Athletics.
A new $2 million investment from the Oregon state legislature will allow the UO to raise enrollment in the semiconductor track of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, an accelerated applied master’s program that provides a pipeline to industry jobs.