Natural Sciences Division

Shirley Malcom (1967) has been a vocal advocate for equity in STEM fields, building on her own experiences in the sciences.

Victoria Meadows, director of the UW's Virtual Planetary Laboratory, discusses whether oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is a sign of living beings.

Dee Boersma is the first UW faculty member nominated for the Indianapolis Prize thanks to her lifetime work studying and advocating for penguins in South America.

I-LABS' Patricia Kuhl helps explain how infants acquire language skills – by losing their ability to discriminate sounds they don’t need.

UW Biology's Ben Wiggins details how implicit bias negatively impacts classroom setting and what faculty can do to change that.

UW Biology's Dee Boersma explains how a quick photo of cute penguin can make a big difference for conservation work.

New research from UW Psychology and I-LABS shows children have a strong sense of self from a young age.

Dr. Wasser, a faculty member in UW Biology, is also a finalist for a $500,000 grand prize thanks to his work in DNA tracking.

UW Professor of Psychology Kristina Olson discusses what alarmist articles often get wrong about transgender children.

Ryan Lafferty, a physics teacher at Bellevue’s International School and UW alumnus, scores $25,000 Milken Educator Award.

Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including UW's Scott Anderson announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas, revealing that our skies are still. ever-changing.

Samuel Wasser, director of the UW Center for Conservation Biology, speaks to Al Jazeera America on how to combat elephant poaching.

Pioneer, adventurist, and 'Renaissance man' Doug Walker remembered

Cheryl R. Kaiser, an associate professor in Psychology, discusses how the current structure of workplace diversity initiatives may not yield success.

John Cramer, a professor emeritus in the UW Department of Physics, has created two different renditions of what the big bang might have sounded like.