Department of Biology

UW Biology Professor Adam Summers and Doctoral student Karly Cohen are on a team researching when and how piranhas replace old dull teeth for new ones. 

Affiliate Professor of Biology Sue Moore has explored how the interplay between scientific and indigenous knowledge can deepen our understanding of the world.

Check out how a team from UW including Biology faculty Adam Summers is working to create a more effective suction cup. 

The University of Washington’s Abigail Swann is honored by Science News on its list of 10 promising early- and mid-career scientists.

Biology doctoral student Lyda Harris studies the environmental dangers of microplastics and advocates for reducing our use of plastics.

New research shows that, in Willapa Bay, the water washing over the tidal flats during high tides is largely the same water that washed over the flats during the previous high tide

Emeritus Professor Ben Hall's research made a profound impact on the UW, the Puget Sound region and the world.

Ginger Rebstock, a researcher in the Department of Biology, explains that penguins have a dominant side.

Jim Kenagy, UW professor emeritus of biology and emeritus curator of mammals at the Burke Museum, explains why we might be seeing an uptick in bunnies in the region.

Deborah Giles of the UW's Center for Conservation Biology weighs. 

Samuel Wasser, Research Professor in Biology, explains the significance of the newest southern resident orca calf. 

Researchers, including UW biology's Deborah Giles, are tagging chinook salmon in a bid to track their main prey

UW biology's, Sam Wasser, weighs in on new data that leaves little doubt the illegal ivory trade has reached the country.

UW biologist Deborah Giles is one of many dismayed by the latest reminder of a population on the brink.

The world, according to UW professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, is awash in BS. So begins their popular course, which trains college students to identify and call out misinformation.