Greetings from the Greenhouse! We are pleased to remind everyone that we have ongoing public hours for 2026. Our hours this year remain the same: Wednesdays 12pm-4pm and 2nd and 4th Saturdays 10am-2pm. On a cold and rainy Seattle winter day the greenhouse is approaching 75°F and always “sunny”.

Emma Guerrini Romano, Biology graduate student, was featured in the Chinook Observer on her work researching the basic biology of burrowing shrimp, a native pest species in Willapa Bay, with the goal of helping shellfish farmers control the shrimp populations.

Chris Law, UW Biology Acting Instructor and affiliate curator at the UW Burke Museum, was interviewed in a UW News Q&A about his new research, which suggests that two different climate transitions millions of years ago fueled the diversification of carnivoran body plans.

Melanie Cham (Strömberg Lab) and Felipe Garzón-Agudelo (Rico-Guevara Lab) were awarded a Simons Foundation awards. The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D.

We are proud to announce the undergraduate and graduate departmental award winners for the 2025 Autumn quarter. We awarded over $60,000 in scholarships and research awards, as well as funded twelve quarters of graduate fellowship support!

Alejandro Rico-Guevara, UW Biology associate professor and curator of ornithology at the UW Burke Museum, was featured in a UW News article about research on the bill shape of

Berry Brosi, UW Biology Professor, was featured in a story by UW Coninuum College on his work partnering with UW Summer Sessions to develop the online, asynchronous "Introduction to Conservation Biology" (BIOL 126) course. 

On Monday, October 6, 2025, Mary E.

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute on Monday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary E. Brunkow — an alum of the University of Washington — along with Frederick J.

Clemens Cabernard, Biology Professor, received a National Institute of Health (NIH) R21 Grant of more than $300,000 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.