The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute on Monday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary E. Brunkow — an alum of the...Read more

On Monday, October 6, 2025, Mary E. Brunkow - an alum of the University of Washington - was jointly awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...Read more

Christian Sidor, UW Biology professor and curator of the Burke Museum's vertebrate paleotology department, was recently featured in a UW Magazine article on a new giant clam fossil...Read more

Biology Professor Horacio de la Iglesia was elected as a new member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in July 2025. Election recognizes the new member’s “outstanding record...Read more

Biology Ph.D. graduate, Wesley Hull, received the 2025 Graduate School Medal Award. This award is given to recognize doctoral candidate “scholar-citizens,” whose academic expertise and social awareness are...Read more

Biology undergraduate student, Dave Young, was named the Dean's Medalist in Natural Sciences for 2025. The Dean’s Medal is awarded by the College of Arts & Sciences each spring to four...Read more

Biology professor Sharlene Santana was awarded an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the UW Office of Undergraduate Research. This award honors mentors for "excellence in guiding undergraduates in their...Read more

Biology professor Adam Summers was awarded the 2025-2026 Rome Prize in Environmental Arts and Humanities from the American Academy in Rome. The Rome Prize is among the world’s most...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Biology Assistant Professor, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award of $1,200,000 from the Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems. The NSF CAREER Award is the agency’s most prestigious...Read more

The Merkel Cell Carcinoma Collaborative (MC3) Institute recently featured a Q&A with Biology Associate Professor Jeff Rasmussen about his lab's most recent Merkel cell paper published in...Read more