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.
As part of the University of Oregon’s “Phil it UP” Appreciation Knight on Feb. 1, 2014, honoring Nike co-founder Phil Knight on his 76th birthday, UO students, faculty and administrators who have been touched by the Knight family’s generosity wish him a happy birthday and thank him for being one of the university’s greatest alums.