'Phil It UP' Video: James Brau, Philip H. Knight Professor in the Sciences

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.

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.