Richard Olmstead, Professor of Biology and Curator of the Herbarium at the Burke Museum, was honored as a 2021 Arthur R. Kruckeberg Fellow by the Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS). This...Read more

Peter Ward, Professor of Biology, was awarded one of three, two-year honorary memberships to The Rainier Club as an at-large member in honor of his scientific accomplishments. He is...Read more

Dr. Itzue W. Caviedes-Solis, recent UW Biology Ph.D. graduate (Leaché lab), was interviewed for the "Scientist Spotlights" feature in Ichthyology & Herpetology. Dr. Caviedes-Solis recently secured a tenure-track faculty position...Read more

UW Biology Professor Horacio de la Iglesia recently gave a talk for TEDxBasel on the moon's effects on human biological rhythms.

From the TEDx video description:

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Elli Theobald, UW Biology Assistant Teaching Professor, was recently interviewed by UW News about a Policy Forum piece published on October 1 in Science that was written by a...Read more

Dee Boersma, UW Biology Professor, was recently featured on the BirdNote Daily. 

Professor Dee Boersma, working with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Province of Chubut, has been...Read more

Deborah Giles, research scientist at the UW Center for Conservation Biology, was quoted in an article in Mongabay on two threatened whale groups who had...Read more

A team of paleontologists from the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. Included in this team...Read more

Carl Bergstrom, UW Biology professor, was recently featured in a Wired article on why it is so hard to predict where the Covid-19 pandemic is headed next.

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Karly Cohen, UW Biology graduate student, was recently featured in New Scientist for her detailed images of moray eel skeletons. Moray eels are known for their long, flexible spines...Read more