Just kidding, apparently Uncle Phil’s not going to come through with the second $500M for the Knight Campus, so they’re going to hire a specialist to hit up our other donors – to report to Knight Director Rob Guldberg and not UO Development, so there won’t be any leakage. And…
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This should be sobering news for those well-paid administrators who hope the rest of us will uncritically swallow their hype about the Knight Campus as an engine for economic development and good jobs. There’s no doubt it will pay off for some: But the long-run external net benefits are far…
Insidehighered has an interesting story on UNLV here: … Big gifts are sometimes based on the relationships between donors and university leaders. But in this case, the link was formal. UNLV agreed to Jessup remaining president until 2022 (as well as the medical dean staying in office) as conditions of…
The RG has the story here: Guldberg, 50, is the executive director of Georgia Tech’s institute of bioengineering and bioscience. His scientific research has focused on musculoskeletal growth and development, muscle regeneration following traumatic injuries, and degenerative diseases. Google Scholar:
In the RG here. The skybridge will connect to the east side of LISB, presumably on the second floor above the LCNI.
Seems he’s pretty well qualified: Around the O has more here: Wineland in the news A Nobel for Teasing Out the Secret Life of Atoms (The New York Times) Quantum Computing Wins a Nobel (The New Yorker) Scientists are close to building a quantum computer that can beat a conventional one(Science Magazine)…
Saul Hubbard has the good news in the RG today. The ask was for $100M, but the rest will come next biennium or so. These are the kinds of bonds that are repaid by taxpayers – unlike the $235M the state let UO borrow for Knight Arena. Those bonds are…
And keep us in the AAU. Rumor down at the faculty club is that this gift came just in the nick of time for the annual AAU meeting. (Update: Noah McGraw has more in the Emerald here.) President Schill in the Oregonian: Michael H. Schill: This week I had the pleasure…