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

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

A study led by Eric Peterman, UW Biology postdoctoral scholar in the Rasmussen Lab, was recently published in Journal of Cell Science. In this paper, the researchers use...Read more

Karly Cohen, Biology PhD alum and postdoctoral researcher at UW's Friday Harbor Labs, was lead author on a paper about spotted ratfish and the rows of teeth on top of their...Read more

Vivek Sridhar, UW Biology Assistant Professor, was recently featured in two media pieces on his research on lekking behavior. From a Darwinian viewpoint, life is about surviving long enough to...Read more

Christian Sidor, UW Biology professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the UW Burke Museum, was featured in a UW News article on research identifying the animals that...Read more

Horacio de la Iglesia, Biology professor, was recently a guest on an episode of the "Science Vs" podcast. On the episode, Horacio discusses his research on how the full moon affects...Read more

Sam Wasser, Biology Research Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Forensic Science (CEFS), was featured in an article in BBC on how scientists are leveraging...Read more