University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is a public research university in Eugene in the state of Oregon, United States, a member of the Association of American Universities, and it is placed in the 701-710 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.俄勒冈大学是一所位于美国俄勒冈州尤金市的公立研究型大学，是美国大学协会成员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 701-710 区间。

Founded in 1876, it is organised into nine colleges and schools offering 420 degree programmes, and its motto is the Latin Mens agitat molem, rendered in English as the mind moves mountains.该校创办于 1876 年，设九个学院与学校，开设 420 个学位项目，其校训为拉丁文「Mens agitat molem」，英译为「心智推动群山」。

Its OpenAlex record lists 68,984 research works and 7,918,140 citations, it stands in the 376-400 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and it is 429th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 68,984 项、被引 7,918,140 次，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 376-400 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 429。

History

• Before the university existed, most colleges in Oregon were denominational, and the Oregon State Legislature drafted a bill in 1872 to establish a state institution.在该校建立之前，俄勒冈的多数学院都带有教派色彩；1872 年，俄勒冈州议会起草法案拟设立一所州立学府。

• A citizens group in Eugene, the Union University Association, campaigned to make the new university non-denominational and succeeded in amending the bill during a legislative meeting in September 1872.尤金的一个市民团体「联合大学协会」推动新大学不分教派，并在 1872 年 9 月的一次议会会议上成功修正了法案。

• The residents of Eugene raised 27,500 dollars to buy eighteen acres of land for 2,500 dollars, providing the site for the new institution, which opened in 1876 under the name Oregon State University with University Hall as its only building.尤金居民募集 27,500 美元，以 2,500 美元购入十八英亩土地，为新学府提供校址；该校 1876 年以当时可用的「俄勒冈州立大学」之名开办，大学堂是其唯一建筑。

• In its first year it enrolled 155 students taught by five faculty members, and the first graduating class in 1878 numbered five students.开办首年有 155 名学生、由五名教师授课；1878 年的首届毕业班仅有五名学生。

• In 1881 the university was nearly closed while eight thousand dollars in debt, until the railroad magnate Henry Villard donated seven thousand dollars to clear the debt, and Villard Hall was completed in 1886.1881 年，该校负债八千美元、几乎停办，直至铁路大亨亨利·维拉德捐资七千美元清偿债务；维拉德堂于 1886 年建成。

• The oldest buildings, University Hall and Villard Hall, were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1977, and the first building was renamed after Judge Matthew Deady in 1893, a name removed in 2020.最古老的建筑大学堂与维拉德堂于 1977 年被列为国家历史地标；第一座建筑曾于 1893 年以法官马修·迪迪命名，其名于 2020 年被移除。

• During the presidency of Prince Lucien Campbell from 1902 to 1925 the university grew sharply in budget, enrolment, facilities and faculty, and new schools were established.在 1902 年至 1925 年卢西恩·坎贝尔亲王担任校长期间，该校在预算、招生、设施与师资上均显著增长，并新设多所学院。

• Those schools included the School of Music in 1902, the School of Education in 1910, the College of Business in 1914, the School of Law in 1915 and the School of Journalism in 1916.这些学院包括 1902 年的音乐学院、1910 年的教育学院、1914 年的商学院、1915 年的法学院与 1916 年的新闻学院。

• The university lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University, in a division of state academic provision.在一次州内学科分工中，该校的工学院划归俄勒冈农学院，即如今的俄勒冈州立大学。

• In 1917 the faculty adopted a three-term calendar as a wartime measure, and the quarter system has remained in use ever since.1917 年，为战时需要，教师会议通过三学期制；这一学季制沿用至今。

• Merger proposals with what became Oregon State University were put forward in 1913 and again in 1932, and both were defeated, with the 1932 Zorn-MacPherson Bill losing by more than six votes to one.该校与后来的俄勒冈州立大学之间在 1913 年与 1932 年两度提出合并方案，均遭否决；1932 年的佐恩-麦克弗森法案以超过六比一的票数落败。

• The university's medical school, founded in Portland in 1887, merged with a Willamette University programme in 1913 and became the independent Oregon Health and Science University in 1974.该校的医学院 1887 年创办于波特兰，1913 年与威拉米特大学的项目合并，后于 1974 年独立成为俄勒冈健康与科学大学。

• The Institute of Molecular Biology was established in 1959, and in 1964 the university ranked 25th nationally in National Science Foundation basic research grants.分子生物学研究所于 1959 年成立；1964 年，其国家科学基金会基础研究经费位列全国第 25。

• In 1969 the university was admitted to the Association of American Universities, and graduate enrolment peaked at 4,568 in the 1978-79 academic year under researchers including Michael Posner, Frank Stahl, George Streisinger and Aaron Novick.1969 年，该校获准加入美国大学协会；在迈克尔·波斯纳、弗兰克·斯塔尔、乔治·斯特赖辛格与阿伦·诺维克等研究者的努力下，研究生注册人数在 1978-79 学年达到 4,568 人的峰值。

• State disinvestment beginning in the 1980s and accelerating after the property tax limits of Measure 5 forced programme cuts, and by 1997 more than twenty programmes had been closed or reduced.自 1980 年代开始的州府投入缩减，在《第 5 号提案》限制房产税后加速，迫使学校削减项目；到 1997 年已有二十余个项目被停办或压缩。

• A campaign from 1992 to 1998 raised 255.3 million dollars against a goal of 150 million, and Campaign Oregon exceeded its 600 million dollar target by over 253 million.1992 至 1998 年的筹款以 1.5 亿美元为目标、实际募得 2.553 亿美元；「俄勒冈运动」则超出 6 亿美元目标逾 2.53 亿美元。

• The university's O logo, designed by Nike and first used by athletics in 1998, was adopted institution-wide in 2002, with the shape said to represent Hayward Field and Autzen Stadium.由耐克设计、1998 年首次用于体育代表队的「O」标识，于 2002 年在全校推行，其造型被认为象征海沃德田径场与奥岑体育场。

• A 2013 state law required local governing boards, and in 2014 the university became an independent public body with its own board of trustees.2013 年的一项州法要求设立本地管理委员会；2014 年，该校成为拥有自身董事会的独立公共实体。

• Michael H. Schill became president in 2015, and Karl Scholz entered office as the nineteenth president in 2023 after Schill left for Northwestern University.迈克尔·H·席尔于 2015 年出任校长，2023 年他转赴西北大学后，卡尔·舒尔茨作为第十九任校长就职。

Academics

• Academic work is organised into nine colleges and schools offering 420 degree programmes, with most teaching following a ten-week quarter system adopted in 1917.其学术工作由九个学院与学校组织，开设 420 个学位项目，多数教学采用 1917 年确立的十周学季制。

• The student body includes students from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, four United States territories and 91 countries.其学生群体来自美国全部五十个州、哥伦比亚特区、四个美国海外领地以及 91 个国家。

• In autumn 2025 the most popular undergraduate major was pre-business administration with 11.1 per cent of majors, followed by psychology at 9.3, business administration at 8.5, human physiology at 5.6 and advertising journalism at 3.9 per cent.2025 年秋季最受欢迎的本科专业是商科预备方向，占 11.1%，其后依次为心理学 9.3%、工商管理 8.5%、人体生理学 5.6% 与新闻广告方向 3.9%。

• The College of Arts and Sciences covers a large array of departments, with the School of Global Studies and Languages embedded within it.文理学院涵盖众多系科，并内设全球研究与语言学院。

• The Charles H. Lundquist College of Business was founded in 1884 and teaches accounting, decision sciences, entrepreneurship, finance, management and marketing, with a separate School of Accounting created in 2017.查尔斯·H·伦德奎斯特商学院创立于 1884 年，教授会计、决策科学、创业、金融、管理与市场营销，并于 2017 年另设会计学院。

• The College of Design was founded by Ellis F. Lawrence in 1914, was renamed in 2017 and is divided into schools of architecture and environment, art and design, and planning, public policy and management.设计学院由埃利斯·F·劳伦斯于 1914 年创办，2017 年更名，下设建筑与环境、艺术与设计以及规划、公共政策与管理三个学院。

• The College of Education was established in 1910, and the School of Journalism and Communication, which began as a department in 1912 and became a professional school in 1916, is one of the oldest journalism schools in the United States.教育学院设立于 1910 年；新闻与传播学院 1912 年设系、1916 年成为专业学院，是美国历史最久的新闻学院之一。

• The School of Law was formed in 1884 in Portland and moved to Eugene in 1915, and the School of Music and Dance grew from a music department of 1886 into a school in 1900.法学院 1884 年在波特兰成立、1915 年迁至尤金；音乐与舞蹈学院则由 1886 年的音乐系发展而来，1900 年升格为学院。

• The Robert D. Clark Honors College keeps a maximum student-to-teacher ratio of 25 to 1, complementing the majors available across the university.罗伯特·D·克拉克荣誉学院维持不超过 25 比 1 的师生比，与全校各专业形成互补。

• Undergraduate admissions are classified as selective: for autumn 2019, 22,329 of 27,358 applicants were accepted, an acceptance rate of 81.6 per cent, and 4,525 enrolled for a yield of 20.3 per cent.其本科招生被列为选择性录取：2019 年秋季，27,358 名申请者中有 22,329 人获录取，录取率 81.6%，最终注册 4,525 人，报到率 20.3%。

• Among freshmen entering in autumn 2019 the middle half scored between 560 and 660 on evidence-based reading and writing and 540 to 650 on mathematics, with ACT composites of 22 to 28 and an average high school grade point average of 3.65.2019 年秋季入学的新生中，中间半数人群的阅读与写作成绩在 560 至 660 之间、数学在 540 至 650 之间，ACT 综合分 22 至 28，高中平均绩点 3.65。

• Of the ten per cent of entering freshmen who submitted class rank, 26 per cent were in the top tenth of their graduating class, 57 per cent in the top quarter and 86 per cent in the top half.在提交班级排名的百分之十新生中，26% 位于毕业班前 10%、57% 位于前 25%、86% 位于前 50%。

• As of the autumn of 2023 the university had 2,097 faculty members, of whom 782 were tenured or on the tenure track, and at least nineteen faculty members had been elected to the National Academy of Sciences as of May 2022.截至 2023 年秋季，该校有教师 2,097 人，其中终身教职或终身轨 782 人；截至 2022 年 5 月，至少十九名教师当选美国国家科学院院士。

• It is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified as a doctoral university with very high research activity, with research and development spending of 111 million dollars in 2018, ranking 151st nationally.该校是美国大学协会成员，并被评为研究活动极为活跃的博士型大学，2018 年研发支出 1.11 亿美元，全国排名第 151。

• The university hosts thirteen research centres and institutes and maintains nine research core facilities, and its relatively modest research spending is noted as unusual for an AAU university.该校设十三个研究中心与研究所，并维护九个研究核心设施；其研发支出相对有限，这在 AAU 成员高校中较为少见。

• The university libraries form a multi-branch system and make the institution Oregon's only member of the Association of Research Libraries, with the Knight Library holding humanities and social sciences collections, the Learning Commons, government publications, maps and aerial photographs, and special collections.其大学图书馆为多分馆体系，使该校成为俄勒冈州唯一的北美研究图书馆协会成员；奈特图书馆收藏人文与社科文献，并设学习共享空间、政府出版物、地图与航拍照片以及特藏。

• Branch libraries include the Design Library in Lawrence Hall, the John E. Jaqua Law Library, the Loyd and Dorothy Rippey Library at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, the mathematics library in Fenton Hall, the Portland Library and Learning Commons and the science library in the Price Science Commons.其分馆包括劳伦斯楼的设计图书馆、约翰·E·贾夸法律图书馆、海洋生物研究所的里皮图书馆、芬顿楼的数学图书馆、波特兰图书馆与学习共享空间，以及普赖斯科学中心的理科图书馆。

• The libraries host Scholars' Bank, an open access repository built on DSpace software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard, and the special collections hold Gardner Fox's manuscripts and comics along with thousands of Japanese senjafuda votive slips.其图书馆运营「学者银行」开放获取机构库，使用麻省理工学院与惠普开发的 DSpace 软件；特藏中藏有加德纳·福克斯的手稿与漫画，以及数千枚日本「千社札」祈愿签。

• OpenAlex attributes 68,984 works and 7,918,140 citations to the institution, a substantial output concentrated in neuroscience, molecular biology, environmental science and the social sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校 68,984 项成果与 7,918,140 次被引，产出可观且集中于神经科学、分子生物学、环境科学与社会科学。

Campus

• The campus covers 295 acres along the Willamette River in Eugene, with about eighty buildings and a tree collection of over 3,000 trees across 500 species.校园位于尤金市威拉米特河沿岸，占地 295 英亩，约有八十座建筑，树木 3,000 余株、涵盖 500 个树种。

• Its geographic coordinates are approximately 44.05207 degrees north and 123.08675 degrees west, in the southern Willamette Valley.其地理坐标约为北纬 44.05207 度、西经 123.08675 度，位于威拉米特谷南部。

• The Lorry I. Lokey Science Complex east of Lawrence Hall includes Willamette Hall with its Paul Olum Atrium, Cascade Hall for geology, Deschutes Hall for computer and information science, and Streisinger Hall, completed in 1989.劳伦斯楼以东的洛里·I·洛基科学建筑群包括设保罗·奥卢姆中庭的威拉米特楼、地质学所在的喀斯喀特楼、计算机与信息科学所在的德舒特楼以及斯特赖辛格楼，均于 1989 年建成。

• Within that complex the Lokey Laboratories form a shared-use facility with characterisation instrumentation, associated with the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute and dedicated in 2008 for a 25 million dollar donation.该建筑群内的洛基实验室是共享使用的表征仪器设施，与俄勒冈纳米科学与微技术研究所相关，2008 年因一笔 2,500 万美元捐赠而命名。

• The Allan Price Science Commons and Research Library also sits in the science complex and reopened after major renovation and expansion in 2016, while the northeast corner of campus holds the Ford Alumni Center and Matthew Knight Arena.艾伦·普赖斯科学共享空间与研究图书馆也位于该科学建筑群内，经大规模改扩建后于 2016 年重新开放；校园东北角则为福特校友中心与马修·奈特体育馆。

• Residence halls occupy much of the eastern campus, including Carson Hall near the student union, the Living-Learning Center opened in 2006 and the Global Scholars Hall opened in autumn 2012 for returning students and honours and language programme students.校园东部多为学生宿舍，包括学生会附近的卡森楼、2006 年启用的生活学习中心，以及 2012 年秋季启用的全球学者楼，后者主要面向高年级学生与荣誉学院及语言项目的学生。

• The south campus holds most on-campus athletic facilities, with Hayward Field in the east having hosted United States Olympic trials, NCAA championships and national athletics championships.南校区集中了大部分校内体育设施，东侧的海沃德田径场曾承办美国奥运选拔赛、NCAA 锦标赛与全国田径锦标赛。

• To the west of the athletic facilities lie Pioneer Cemetery and the College of Education buildings, including the HEDCO Education building and the Frohnmayer Music Center, while the Knight Law Center faces Hayward Field and the Many Nations Longhouse and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History stand east of it.体育设施以西是先锋公墓与教育学院各楼，包括 HEDCO 教育大楼与弗龙迈尔音乐中心；奈特法学中心与海沃德田径场相对，多民族长屋与自然及文化历史博物馆则位于其东侧。

• The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is a billion dollar applied science campus on the north side of Franklin Boulevard, funded by two 500 million dollar gifts from Phil and Penny Knight.菲尔与佩妮·奈特加速科学影响园区是位于富兰克林大道北侧的十亿美元应用科学园区，由菲尔与佩妮·奈特的两次 5 亿美元捐赠资助。

• The controversial Riverfront Research Park houses the Computational Intelligence Research Lab and the Zebrafish Information Network, a model organism database, and drew appeals in 2010 over plans to build on land along the Willamette River.颇具争议的河畔研究园设有计算智能研究实验室与斑马鱼模式生物数据库「ZFIN」，2010 年其沿威拉米特河岸的建楼计划曾引发上诉。

• In 2022 the university bought the campus of the closed Concordia University in Portland and converted it into the main campus of UO Portland, having previously leased space in the White Stag Block in Old Town.2022 年，该校购入已停办的波特兰康考迪亚大学校园，改建为俄勒冈大学波特兰校区的主校区；此前其波特兰校区一直租用老城白鹿大楼的空间。

• Sustainability policy requires new buildings and renovations to incorporate sustainable design, a rule catalysed by the Lillis Business Complex of 2003, which holds a LEED Silver rating and by 2016 fifteen campus buildings had LEED Silver or higher.其可持续政策要求新建与翻修项目纳入可持续设计，这一规定由 2003 年的利利斯商学院大楼促成，该楼获 LEED 银级认证；到 2016 年校园已有十五座建筑获 LEED 银级或更高评级。

• The undergraduate architecture programme has been rated the number one public programme for sustainable design practice and principles by DesignIntelligence magazine.其本科建筑项目被《DesignIntelligence》杂志评为「可持续设计实践与原则」方向的公立院校第一名。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Oregon is placed in the 701-710 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，俄勒冈大学处于 701-710 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It stands in the 376-400 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 429th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 376-400 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 429。

• It is placed in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 501-600 区间。

• OpenAlex attributes 68,984 works and 7,918,140 citations to the university, a substantial output for a public university of its size.OpenAlex 记录该校 68,984 项成果与 7,918,140 次被引，对其规模的公立大学而言产出可观。

• Membership of the Association of American Universities, granted in 1969, places it among the leading research universities of North America, and its classification as a very high research activity university confirms that standing.1969 年获得的美国大学协会成员资格，使其位列北美领先研究型大学之列；其「研究活动极为活跃」的评定也印证了这一地位。

• Its research spending of 111 million dollars in 2018 ranked 151st nationally and is notably modest for an AAU member, a point the university's own comparisons acknowledge.其 2018 年 1.11 亿美元的研发支出全国排名第 151，在 AAU 成员中明显偏低，这一点该校自身的对比也予以承认。

• In 1964 the university ranked 25th nationally in National Science Foundation basic research grants, ahead of several larger private institutions.1964 年，该校的国家科学基金会基础研究经费位列全国第 25，超过若干规模更大的私立院校。

• Its athletics and track programme give it an unusual public profile, with Hayward Field hosting the 2022 World Athletics Championships, the first held in the United States.其体育与田径项目赋予该校不同寻常的公众知名度，海沃德田径场承办了 2022 年世界田径锦标赛，这是该赛事首次在美国举行。

• Major publications have described the university as the University of Nike because of the scale of Phil Knight's giving and the athletic infrastructure it funded, and reliance on private philanthropy is also treated as a weakness given low state subsidy.由于菲尔·奈特捐赠规模及其资助的体育设施，多家主要媒体把该校称为「耐克大学」；在州府补贴偏低的情况下，对私人捐赠的依赖也被视为其弱点。

Student life

• The university motto, Mens agitat molem, or the mind moves mountains, was adopted with the seal design in the 1870s and remains its Latin device.其校训「Mens agitat molem（心智推动群山）」在 1870 年代与校徽设计一同确立，至今仍是其拉丁文标识。

• The Oregon Bach Festival, founded in 1970 by the German conductor Helmuth Rilling and the professor Royce Saltzman, is the only major music festival affiliated with an American university and draws over 40,000 attendees annually.俄勒冈巴赫音乐节由德国指挥家赫尔穆特·里林与教授罗伊斯·萨尔兹曼于 1970 年创办，是美国唯一由大学主办的大型音乐节，每年吸引四万余名观众。

• That festival has presented artists including Frederica von Stade, Bobby McFerrin, Garrison Keillor and Thomas Quasthoff, who made his American debut in Eugene in 1995, and it commissions works by composers such as Arvo Pärt, Osvaldo Golijov and Tan Dun.该音乐节曾邀请弗雷德里卡·冯·斯塔德、博比·麦克费林、加里森·凯勒与 1995 年在尤金完成美国首演的托马斯·夸斯托夫等艺术家，并委约阿尔沃·帕特、奥斯瓦尔多·戈利霍夫与谭盾等作曲家创作。

• A recording of the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's Credo at the festival won the 2001 Grammy Award for best choral performance.该音乐节录制的克日什托夫·潘德列茨基《信经》世界首演录音，获得 2001 年格莱美最佳合唱表演奖。

• More than 250 student groups operate on campus, most based in the Erb Memorial Union, and the university hosts three student a cappella groups, Divisi, On the Rocks and Mind the Gap.校园内有 250 多个学生团体，多设于埃尔布纪念学生会；该校还有三个学生阿卡贝拉团体，即「Divisi」「On the Rocks」与「Mind the Gap」。

• Student media include the Daily Emerald, the Oregon Commentator and Ethos Magazine, and the university operates two radio stations, KWAX for classical music and KWVA as campus radio.学生媒体包括《每日翡翠报》《俄勒冈评论家》与《Ethos》杂志；该校还运营两家电台，古典音乐台 KWAX 与校园电台 KWVA。

• The Associated Students of the University of Oregon is the largest governing body, with a budget of 15.24 million dollars in 2014-15, and students hold five voting seats in the University Senate plus a non-voting seat for its president.俄勒冈大学学生联合会是最大的学生自治机构，其 2014-15 年度预算为 1,524 万美元；学生在大学评议会中拥有五个有表决权席位，其主席另占一个无表决权席位。

• The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, established in 1976, is one of the oldest graduate student unions in the United States and won employer-paid health insurance in 1993, striking for the first time in 2014 over minimum pay and paid sick leave.研究生助教联合会成立于 1976 年，是美国历史最久的研究生工会之一，1993 年争取到由雇主支付的医疗保险，并在 2014 年因最低薪资与带薪病假首次罢工。

• The Erb Memorial Union was renovated and expanded between 2013 and 2016, with its 1973 wing demolished in 2014, and the Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center opened in 2019.埃尔布纪念学生会于 2013 至 2016 年间完成改扩建，其 1973 年建成的侧翼于 2014 年拆除；莉莉·雷诺兹-帕克黑人文化中心于 2019 年启用。

• Newer halls include Kalapuya Ilihi, which houses 531 students, and Unthank Hall, completed in 2019 and opened to students in 2021.较新的宿舍包括可容纳 531 名学生的卡拉普亚·伊利希楼，以及 2019 年建成、2021 年向学生开放的安思克楼。

• The Ducks compete in the Big Ten Conference and Division I football bowl subdivision, having won 28 NCAA team championships and 60 individual titles in track and field events.俄勒冈鸭队参加十大联盟与 NCAA 一级橄榄球碗赛分区，曾获 28 项 NCAA 团体冠军与 60 项田径个人冠军。

• The annual football game against Oregon State University is one of the oldest rivalries in the country, played nearly every year since 1894 except 1900, 1901, 1911, 1943 and 1944, and the fight song Mighty Oregon dates from 1916.其与俄勒冈州立大学的年度橄榄球赛是全国最悠久的对抗之一，自 1894 年起除 1900、1901、1911、1943 与 1944 年外几乎每年举行；战歌《强大的俄勒冈》作于 1916 年。

Notable people

• Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike and an alumnus, has given more than two billion dollars to the university since the late 1980s, much of it for athletics.耐克共同创办人、该校校友菲尔·奈特自 1980 年代末以来向学校捐资超过二十亿美元，其中很大一部分用于体育。

• Knight and his wife Penny funded the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact with 500 million dollars in 2016 and a further 500 million in 2021, and the Lokey Laboratories were named for a 25 million dollar donation.奈特与妻子佩妮于 2016 年捐资 5 亿美元设立奈特加速科学影响园区，2021 年再捐 5 亿美元；洛基实验室则因 2,500 万美元捐赠而得名。

• Bill Bowerman, the university's track and field head coach, and Phil Knight founded Nike, and their track programme produced athletes including Steve Prefontaine and Alberto Salazar.该校田径队主教练比尔·鲍尔曼与菲尔·奈特共同创办了耐克，其田径队培养出史蒂夫·普雷方丹与阿尔贝托·萨拉萨尔等运动员。

• Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive of Microsoft, gave 425 million dollars in 2022 to fund the institute for children's behavioural health that bears his name.微软前首席执行官史蒂夫·鲍尔默于 2022 年捐资 4.25 亿美元，设立以其姓氏命名的儿童行为健康研究所。

• Henry Villard, the railroad magnate, saved the university from closure in 1881, and Villard Hall carries his name, while Prince Lucien Campbell presided over the growth of its schools and budget.铁路大亨亨利·维拉德于 1881 年使学校免于停办，维拉德堂即以他命名；卢西恩·坎贝尔亲王则主导了各学院与预算的扩张。

• Ellis F. Lawrence, the first dean of architecture, founded the College of Design in 1914 and shaped the campus plan around quadrangles and the Oregon Experiment.首位建筑学院院长埃利斯·F·劳伦斯于 1914 年创办设计学院，并围绕方庭规划校园，推动了「俄勒冈实验」。

• Michael Posner, a psychologist at the university, became widely cited for his work on attention and cognitive neuroscience, and George Streisinger pioneered the zebrafish as a model organism.该校心理学家迈克尔·波斯纳因在注意力与认知神经科学方面的研究而被广泛引用；乔治·斯特赖辛格则开创了以斑马鱼作为模式生物的研究。

• John Karl Scholz became the nineteenth president in 2023, following Michael H. Schill, who served from 2015 to 2022 and later became president of Northwestern University.约翰·卡尔·舒尔茨于 2023 年成为第十九任校长，其前任迈克尔·H·席尔于 2015 至 2022 年任职，后出任西北大学校长。

• The university's medical school, founded in 1887, became the independent Oregon Health and Science University in 1974, an institution now separate from the university.其 1887 年创办的医学院于 1974 年独立为俄勒冈健康与科学大学，如今是与本校分立的机构。

• The special collections hold the manuscripts and comic books of the writer Gardner Fox, along with over two hundred letters from fans and thousands of Japanese senjafuda votive slips.其特藏收藏作家加德纳·福克斯的手稿与漫画，另有二百余封读者来信与数千枚日本「千社札」祈愿签。