UO gets another $500M from Knight for 2nd science building amid cuts to academia

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• Phil Knight has provided another $500M to the UO for its science campus.

• UO says the money will go towards hiring more faculty and building a second building.

• This comes after the UO told faculty and staff that it would make cuts across academic department and is making infrastructure investments to sustain the current Knight science campus (h/t Sanjay Srivastava)

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