Biology professor Sharlene Santana was awarded an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the UW Office of Undergraduate Research. This award honors mentors for "excellence in guiding undergraduates in their...Read more

Biology professor Adam Summers was awarded the 2025-2026 Rome Prize in Environmental Arts and Humanities from the American Academy in Rome. The Rome Prize is among the world’s most...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Biology Assistant Professor, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award of $1,200,000 from the Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems. The NSF CAREER Award is the agency’s most prestigious...Read more

The Merkel Cell Carcinoma Collaborative (MC3) Institute recently featured a Q&A with Biology Associate Professor Jeff Rasmussen about his lab's most recent Merkel cell paper published in...Read more

Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology professor, was featured as a guest on the Science Friday podcast episode on Joanne Chory, a plant scientist whose research had an unconventional approach to...Read more

Research from the Rasmussen Lab identified the direct precursors of Merkel cells during zebrafish skin development and regeneration. The manuscript was published in Development. Congratulations, "Team Merkel"!Read more

Jay Falk, Biology postdoctoral scholar, led a study examining why a minority of female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds mimic the colorful plumage of males. The research found that while...Read more

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Biology Assistant Professor, was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" about research that suggests one species of hummingbird in California has evolved to get the most...Read more

Biology PhD alum Karly Cohen was an author on a recent study that looked at the repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes. The study presents...Read more

Berry Brosi, UW Biology professor, was recently interviewed by UW News in a Q&A on how habitat is important to two types of bees native to Washington. Berry...Read more