Natural Sciences Division

The Speech and Hearing Clinic serves a dual role--as a resource for the community and a teaching tool for students. 

Psychology Professor Marsha Linehan has developed a new approach, dialectical behavior therapy, for treating intensely suicidal patients

Raymond B. Huey, professor emeritus of biology, discusses how humans adapt to hot weather.

New courses in the Department of History explore the tragedy of the Holocaust. 

Choreographer Trisha Brown is the focus of a series of coordinated events on campus this spring, including an exhibition, lectures, performances, and master classes. 

Scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology are asking big questions using technology that allows them to study at the smallest scale. 

A research team that includes Michael Gelb, professor of chemistry, received the Project of the Year Award from the Medicines for Malaria Venture for research on parasites that cause malaria and sleeping sickness.

Astronaut Michael Anderson, who perished in the space shuttle Columbia, earned his B.S. from the UW College of Arts and Sciences in physics and astronomy. 

After Frith Maier retraced adventurer George Kennan's 1870 route through the Caucasus Mountains, the journey became the basis of her UW master's thesis and a new book. 

There have been big changes in the College of Arts and Sciences in the past few years as long-standing departments have joined together to create new, more effective units. 

At the Summer Institute in Life Science, offered by UW Biology Program, middle school teachers do a lot of hands-on learning--and gain ideas for their own classrooms. 

A childhood interest in astronomy, renewed in adulthood, led David Brooks to support postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Astronomy. 

Art Levinson (1972), head of biotech firm Genentech, got his start working in a faculty lab as a UW student.

The UW's Medicinal Herb Garden, home to hundreds of medicinal plants, has a long and colorful history.