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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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New research from the Plesa lab offers a tool for scientists to find exact DNA sequences from large libraries in a fraction of the time.

Knight Campus graduate students Anissa Benabbas (Plesa Lab) and Malvika Singhal (Hettiaratchi Lab) took first place in the Science Coalition Student Video Challenge.

Bala Ambati has received nearly $500,000 in funding from iVEena Delivery Systems, Inc. and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance a new therapeutic for nearsightedness, the leading cause of vision loss globally.
Tim Gardner has received a $350,000 award from the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) to accelerate the development of next-generation neural-interface technologies for studying brain injury and repair.

Researchers from the Hettiaratchi lab at Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact combine 3D printing with molecular cues to guide muscle regeneration.

The mid-career honor recognizes Benoit for her internationally renowned research program in therapeutic biomaterials and her her recent and timely scientific contributions and leadership.

Set to open in March of 2026, Building 2 of the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is a dedicated space for world-class research and hands-on training. 

Knight Campus research associate Kait Link provides large animal care and veterinary training abroad

The Hildegard Lamfrom Scholars Program at the Center for Biomedical Data Science honors the life of a trail-blazing scientist through its support of cutting-edge research and training.

At the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, they’ve got trash covered. Literally. Attractive metal plates now sit over garbage chutes throughout the research campus, courtesy of a nifty collaboration between custodian Judy Haines and the facility’s technical teams.

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