Nania, a critically endangered forest elephant, became separated from her herd when she was only three months old, and ever since has been hand-reared by wildlife carers in her homeland,...Read more

Ben Wiggins, UW Biology Manager of Program Operations, is the Director of the Science Teaching Experience Program for Upcoming PhDs (STEP-UP). STEP-UP is a branch of the STEP Program, a...Read more

Doug Ewing, interim manager of the UW Life Sciences Greenhouse, was featured in the UW Facilities Blog for his work in repurposing the wood and bark from a...Read more

Gregory Wilson Mantilla, UW Biology Professor, was featured in a Discovery Magazine article on the primary suspect behind the Cretaceous Extinction.

The time-honored explanation for the disappearance of...Read more

Daniel Promislow, UW Biology Professor, was featured in Knowable Magazine on studying dogs to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.

Animals need not be extremely long-lived, like bats, to...Read more

A COVID-19 modeling tool developed in collaboration with Carl Bergstrom, UW Biology Professor, and Ryan McGee, UW Biology graduate student, was mentioned in this Slate article....Read more

UW Biology Professor Jeff Riffell and UW Biology Professor & Chair David Perkel were recently awarded research grants from the Human Frontier Science Program. The Human Frontier Science Program,...Read more

Jennifer Nemhauser, UW Biology Professor, is interviewed in an article in The Washington Post on mentor Joanne Chory, a plant biologist working to find climate solutions in plants....Read more

Sue Moore, UW Biology Affiliate Professor, was quoted in this National Geographic article on the unexplained die-off of gray whales in the Pacific.

Between 2016 and 2020, the...Read more

Julie Theriot, UW Biology Professor, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120...Read more