We’ve known from the beginning how the end will arrive. Eventually, the coronavirus will be unable to find enough susceptible hosts to survive, fading out wherever it briefly emerges.

To...Read more

Off the west side of San Juan Island, Deborah Giles quickly grabbed her boat’s bright yellow research flag and started waving it at a small boat chopping through the...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara was featured in The New York Times for his contributing work on a new study showing that honeybees switch their feeding strategy to be more efficient...Read more

Carl Bergstrom was interviewed by Scientific American about his tool kit for navigating the daily deluge of news about the novel coronavirus, from finding reliable sources to...Read more

Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West's new book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, was released this week. C. Brandon Ogbunu, computational biologist and assistant professor...Read more

Elli Theobald and Scott Freeman were featured in this article in UW's The Daily on the uneven playing field of competitive STEM majors.

“Achievement gaps are not...Read more

Carl Bergstrom was quoted in this BuzzFeed News article on pooled testing for the coronavirus.

A decades-old lab procedure could help the United States claw its way out...Read more

Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West were featured in this article in The Economist on debunking dodgy data.

ON JULY 2ND the American state of Georgia counted a...Read more

Abigail Swann, Associate Professor for the UW Department of Biology and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, was recently awarded the American Meteorological Society’s Walter Orr Roberts Lectureship. 

The Walter...Read more

Ana Maria Bedoya, Biology graduate student in the Olmstead lab, was named The American Society of Plant Taxonomists' 2020 George R. Cooley Award winner.

Each year since...Read more