• Tracking Comets, and Other Celestial Adventures

    Among astronomy and physics major Max Frissell's most memorable research experiences at the UW was identifying a never-before-seen comet using a powerful research telescope.

    June 2025 Perspectives
  • ArtSci People & Research in the Media: Winter Quarter Roundup

    The College of Arts & Sciences is home to many distinguished researchers, faculty, and students. Their work and contributions have been featured in media outside of the UW and across the country. Take a look at some ArtSci features from this past Winter Quarter. From new telescopes to UW in high schools, ArtSci in the Media has something for everyone!

    05/21/2025 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • A telescope is taking 12 years to build but could find extraterrestrial life in hours

    The circumstances need to be right, but modeling suggests finding biosignatures in the atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby stars will be well within the Extremely Large Telescopes capacity. The UW's Victoria Meadows, professor of astronomy, and Miles Currie, a doctoral student of astronomy, are mentioned.
    IFLScience
  • A telescope is taking 12 years to build but could find extraterrestrial life in hours

    The circumstances need to be right, but modeling suggests finding biosignatures in the atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby stars will be well within the Extremely Large Telescopes capacity. The UW's Victoria Meadows, professor of astronomy, and Miles Currie, a doctoral student of astronomy, are mentioned.
    IFLScience
  • Faculty/staff honors: Best paper, collaborative innovation, young investigator award

    Recent recognition of the University of Washington includes the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop, Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Collaborative Innovation Award and 2024 AVS Thin Film Young Investigator Award. Professor wins ‘best paper’ at NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop Max Kleiman-Weiner, assistant professor in the UW Foster School of Business, received...
    UW News
  • April 19: Arts and Sciences Events at Admitted Student Day

    Admitted students and families can engage with the College of Arts and Sciences through several department and program specific events over the next few weeks.

    03/02/2025 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • Upcoming astronomical events in 2025

    Student writer, Vatsala Choudhary, discusses the upcoming astronomical events and what to look for in the sky this winter. James Davenport, research assistant professor of astronomy, is quoted.

    The Daily
  • Check out the Hubble space telescope's stunning new view of the Andromeda galaxy

    The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth. Ben Williams, research associate professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
    Smithsonian Magazine
  • Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)

    Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. The result is a stunning panoramic view that provides the most detailed image yet of the entire galaxy; its science-packed features could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve. The UW's Zhuo Chen, a postdoctoral scholar of astronomy, and Ben Williams, research associate professor of astronomy, are quoted.
    Space
  • Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy

    The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth. Ben Williams, research associate professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.

    Smithsonian Magazine
  • Why some astronomers are excited about the search for alien life

    I can be part of this journey that humankind is on," recalls University of Washington astronomer James Davenport. "It was amazing." Now an astronomy professor at the University of Washington, Davenport is still enthralled by the search.

    NPR
  • Why a new telescope may help the search for alien life in space

    At the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens with screensavers. The project was called SETI@home. The hope was that with the power of millions of computers, researchers could comb through radio signals hitting Earth from outer space to find a hint of something unusual. James Davenport, research assistant professor of astronomy at the UW, is interviewed.
    NPR
  • Panorama of our nearest galactic neighbor unveils hundreds of millions of stars

    The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic neighbor to the Milky Way. The new mosaic of about 2.5 billion pixels yields new clues to the galaxy's history. UW astronomers presented the findings Jan. 16 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
    UW News
  • Most of the atoms in your body left the Milky Way on a 'cosmic conveyor belt' long before you were born, new study reveals

    New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy. The UW's Samantha Garza, a doctoral student of astronomy, and Jessica Werk, professor and chair of astronomy, are quoted.
    Live Science
  • ArtSci People & Research in the Media: Autumn Quarter Roundup

    The College of Arts & Sciences is home to many distinguished researchers, faculty, and students. Their work and contributions have been featured in media outside of the UW and across the country. Take a look at some ArtSci features from this past Autumn Quarter. With everything from AI to Orca whales, ArtSci people and research in the media has something for everyone.

    01/09/2025 | College of Arts & Sciences