New research co-led by UW Biology professor Jeff Riffell and UW Atmospheric Sciences professor Joel Thornton shows that air pollution – coming primarily from car exhaust and power plant...Read more

Ray Huey, professor emeritus of biology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024. Members are elected to the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...Read more

Research out of the Buckley Lab on how butterflies are evolving as climate changes was recently featured on a KCTS 9 episode of Human Elements. Interviewed in this...Read more

Daniel Promislow, UW Biology Professor, was recently interviewed by KUOW on the “Dog Aging Project,” which he co-founded to study how dogs age. 

Dogs share so much of...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, UW Biology Associate Professor and curator of ornithology at the UW Burke Museum, was recently interviewed by KUOW on his research on hummingbirds. 

Alejandro Rico-Guevara remembers when...Read more

Congratulations to the Rico-Guevara lab members, David Cuban, Amanda Hewes, and Alejo Rico-Guevara, on being featured in Science on their work on hummingbird tongues! 

Excerpt from the Science article:

TONGUE...Read more

UW Biology professor Horacio de la Iglesia co-authored a white paper describing the significance of repeated, chronic jet lag on student-athlete health and performance - both in academics...Read more

UW Biology undergraduate student Samantha-Lynn Martinez was featured in a UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs student story on her experience of belonging through the UW Honors Program. Samantha-Lynn...Read more

Three UW Biology undergraduate students were recently named 2023-2024 Levinson Scholars. The Levinson Emerging Scholars (LES) Program is designed to support students who work...Read more

A new paper out of the Paredez lab was published in Nature Communications. Authors on the paper include postdoctoral scholar Han-Wei Shih, research scientist Germain Alas, and...Read more