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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
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