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.Excerpt from the…

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. The…

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 green hermit hummingbirds. Compared to their female counterparts, male…

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. Each year, Summer Sessions invests in the development of new online offerings, and in 2025…

Sievert Rohwer, Biology Professor Emeritus and Curator Emeritus at the UW Burke Museum, and his son Vanya Gregor Rohwer, curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates were…

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. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution.…

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! We are especially grateful to the generous donors and supporters who make these Biology awards, scholarships, and fellowships possible for our students quarter after quarter, year after year. Cheers all around!Information on the student’s research lab is…

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”. Most days we can offer something new to see or smell and we would love to see you, your friends, and your family in the New Year. We are still working out the right place in the facility for each…