Phil Knight and wife, Penny, make largest known donation to a public university to fund a new engineering school Nike cofounder Phil Knight, and his wife, Penny, have donated $1bn to the University of Oregon in what the university described as the “largest gift ever made to a comprehensive public...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/23/nike-cofounder-university-oregon-donation)