'Phil It UP' Appreciation Knight

As part of the University of Oregon’s “Phil It UP” Appreciation Knight on Feb. 1, 2014, honoring Nike co-founder and Duck alumnus Phil Knight on his 76th birthday, UO students, faculty and leaders wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his tremendous impact on the university.

Students, faculty and leaders (below) wish Nike co-founder and Duck alumnus Phil Knight a happy birthday and thank him for his tremendous impact on the university as part of the "Phil It UP" campaign
As the University of Oregon's 17th president, Michael Gottfredson is uniquely positioned to appreciate the full scope of Phil and Penny Knight's support of the university and the impact of their generosity on programs ranging from athletics to the library, law school and many academic departments.
The Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor of Education, Gerald Tindal is also the director of Behavioral Research and Teaching and regularly works with the Office of Special Education Programs in Washington, D.C., and the Oregon Department of Education.
One of the United States’ leading scholars of ancient Greek art, Jeff Hurwit is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Art History and Classics whose research focuses on the representation of the sea in early Greek art and the place of the artist in ancient Greece.
Former dean of the University of Oregon’s College of Education and the Sommerville Knight Professor, Michael Bullis developed innovative secondary and transition service delivery models and studied adolescents returning to the community from correctional settings.
Deb Carver is a senior librarian and Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries at the Knight Library, which is the largest library facility in Oregon and holds collections with a replacement value of over $100 million.
The Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences, Jon Erlandson is the executive director of the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History and archaeology professor who has done field research in coastal California, Oregon, Alaska and Iceland.
Michael Moffitt is the Philip H. Knight Dean of the Oregon School of Law, Oregon’s only public law school, housed in the Knight Law Center, which was dedicated in 1999 and more than doubled the size of the law school’s facilities.
Sam Dotters Katz is a student in the Oregon School of Law, housed in the Knight Law Center, and the president of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon.
Philip H. Knight Professor of Law Mary Wood is the founding director of the Oregon School of Law's nationally acclaimed Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program.
James Brau, Philip H. Knight Professor in the Sciences and director of the Center for High Energy Physics, leads a team of UO physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider, one of the largest scientific experiments in the world.
A composer, conductor and saxophonist, Steve Owen is also a Philip H. Knight Professor of Music and director of the University of Oregon's award-winning Jazz Studies Program.