Professor Emerita Estella Leopold passed away on February 25, 2024, at the age of 97. KUOW published a story(link is external) on her legacy.

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Seattle scientist and conservationist Estella...Read more

UW Biology Greenhouse Manager Katie Sadler was recently featured in a profile for the "People of UW" series(link is external) hosted through The Whole U(link is external).

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UW Biology postdoctoral scholar Dr. Kasim Rafiq and graduate student Leigh West, both members of the Abrahms lab(link is external), were recently featured in the new Apple TV+ documentary...Read more

New research co-led by UW Biology professor Jeff Riffell and UW Atmospheric Sciences professor Joel Thornton shows that air pollution – coming primarily from car exhaust and power plant...Read more

Ray Huey, professor emeritus of biology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024(link is external). Members are elected to the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...Read more

Research out of the Buckley Lab(link is external) on how butterflies are evolving as climate changes was recently featured on a KCTS 9 episode of Human Elements(link is external). Interviewed in this...Read more

Daniel Promislow, UW Biology Professor, was recently interviewed by KUOW on the “Dog Aging Project,”(link is external) which he co-founded to study how dogs age. 

Dogs share so much of...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, UW Biology Associate Professor and curator of ornithology at the UW Burke Museum, was recently interviewed by KUOW on his research on hummingbirds(link is external). 

Alejandro Rico-Guevara remembers when...Read more

Biology Professor Dee Boersma was featured in an article in The New York Times Magazine(link is external) as one of many scientists watching their life's work disappear as they witness...Read more

UW Biology student Tawni Rodríguez Ng was recently named a 2023 UW Homecoming Scholar. The Homecoming Scholars honors six extraordinary students across the UW whose stories exemplify Husky...Read more