Department of Biology

A University of Washington seminar, promises to help students develop a BS detector — and it’s become a global phenomenon.

In the wake of the death of 85-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan, officials in Nepal are considering whether to place an upper age limit on adventurers seeking to climb Mount Everest.

Scientists at the University of Washington, Texas A&M University and the Western Australian Museum have discovered and named a new genus and species of clingfish.

Award sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Popular Science magazine celebrates the use of visual media to artfully and clearly communicate scientific data and research.

New Burke Museum includes efforts to make labs and artifacts that are hidden from public view in the current museum more visible to visitors in the new one.

The very name of the class seemed to fire imaginations nationwide. Now the Information School's new course "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data" is getting started.

Through an NSF grant, scientist Jennifer Nemhauser is hosting three artists in her UW Biology lab over three years. 

According to a University of Washington biology department research team, humans are not alone in continuing to support offspring who have "left the nest."

When space tourism is in full swing, you’ll need to know how to get around foreign planets. Biology Ph.D. candidate Eleanor Lutz is already making maps to guide us.

Center for Conservation Biology director Dr. Sam Wasser comments on how DNA mapping illegal ivory can illustrate its wider connections to drug trafficking rings. 

Adam Summers, professor of biology at UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories, writes in The Journal of the San Juan Islands about his project called #ScanAllFish. 

When we feel something too hot or cold, our senses register pain. But why? And what’s causing it? 

Two University of Washington professors are taking aim at BS in a provocatively named new course they hope to teach this spring. 

Here’s a reading list for designers in Trump's America. UW professors Carl Bergstrom (biology) and Jevin West (Information School) are mentioned.

A recent UW study analyzed the behavior of seven species of marine snails found in Washington waters and discovered that native and invasive snails use different cues to assess risk.