A new study led by the University of Washington has for the first time quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened...Read more

Merrill Hille, UW Biology professor emerita, and Bertil Hille, UW Physiology and Biophysics emeritus professor, were recently featured in The Whole U "People of UW."

Distinguished emeritus...Read more

A new paper on calcium signaling of tissue-resident macrophages by members of the Rasmussen lab was accepted at Molecular Biology of the Cell. This paper highlights contributions of...Read more

Dee Boersma, Biology professor, commented in an article in The New York Times on a penguin who made a 2,000-mile trip to an Australian Beach.

From The New...Read more

UW News has posted a story about how a team led by scientists at the University of Washington and the University of Aberdeen attached tiny “backpack” trackers to hummingbirds...Read more

UW News has published a story about how reconstructing ancient climates can provide insight into the impacts of anthropogenic climate change. A 15-year study of a site in Bolivia...Read more

UW Biology undergraduate student, Lily Nguyen (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Biochemistry), was recently named 2024-2025 Levinson Scholars. 

The Levinson Emerging Scholars (LES) Program is designed to support students who...Read more

Yasmeen Erritouni, UW Biology graduate student, was awarded one of the American Ornithological Society's Council Awards, which is given for the best presentations on any topic in ornithology. Yasmeen's...Read more

In cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, UW News has posted a story about new research on the plight of southern resident orcas in the Salish Sea....Read more

In a collaborative research project funded by the Washington Sea Grant, Jennifer Ruesink, UW Biology Professor, and Kerry Naish, UW Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Professor, seek to protect...Read more