$500M For UO | Wildfires And Climate Change | American Dream: Naturalized Citizen | Measure 97

• The University of Oregon just received a 500 million dollar gift from Phil and Penny Knight to launch a transformational science center. University President Michael Schill tells us more.

• Columbia University professor Park Williams explains the tie between climate change and forest fires in the Western U.S.

• Anand Tawker is a naturalized citizen and former director of Emerging Market Solutions in India for Hewlett Packard. He joins us to share his perspective on the American Dream, as part of our series on how people's experience is informing their ideas about the American Dream, and how those ideas are changing.

• OPB's senior political reporter Jeff Mapes joins us to try to answer one of the central questions of this election season: if voters pass Measure 97, raising taxes on companies with more than $25 million in annual sales in Oregon, will those companies raise prices on their Oregon customers?

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