Jay Falk, Biology postdoctoral scholar, led a study examining why a minority of female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds mimic the colorful plumage of males. The research found that while...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Biology Assistant Professor, was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" about research that suggests one species of hummingbird in California has evolved to get the most...Read more

Biology PhD alum Karly Cohen was an author on a recent study that looked at the repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes. The study presents...Read more

Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology professor, was featured as a guest on the Science Friday podcast episode on Joanne Chory, a plant scientist whose research had an unconventional approach to...Read more

Research from the Rasmussen Lab identified the direct precursors of Merkel cells during zebrafish skin development and regeneration. The manuscript was published in Development. Congratulations, "Team Merkel"!Read more

UW Biology undergraduate students, Sunny Dighe (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) and Roxanne Madden (Physiology) were named 2025-26 Levinson Scholars.

The Levinson Emerging Scholars (LES) Program is designed to support...Read more

Berry Brosi, UW Biology professor, was recently interviewed by UW News in a Q&A on how habitat is important to two types of bees native to Washington. Berry...Read more

Alyssa Sargent, Biology graduate student, was featured on the first episode of the "Write for You" podcast. The "Write for You" podcast from the UW Odegaard Writing and...Read more

A new study of grasshoppers in the mountains of Colorado shows that, while the answers are complicated, biologists have much of the knowledge they need to make these predictions and...Read more

UW Biology Professor Emerita Billie Swalla was recently honored with the Society for Developmental Biology's Lifetime Achievement Award. 

The Society confers yearly the SDB Lifetime Achievement Award to a...Read more