Natural Sciences Division

Emeritus Professor Eric Adelberger, Professor Jens Gundlach, and Professor Blayne Heckel are the recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

SpaceX’s attempts to dim the spacecraft in its megaconstellation fall short of eliminating disruptions to the world’s ground-based observatories. Meredith Rawls, a research scientist in astronomy, is quoted.

Three physics professors at the UW have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in physics.

Researchers at the UW, working on the understanding of gravity, have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics.

Three UW physics professors have won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Physics.

Free-jazz pioneer Gary Peacock (BS, Biology, 1976), has passed away.

The CDC this week adjusted its guidance for coronavirus exposure to say people without symptoms “do not necessarily need a test.” Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology, is quoted.

UW students, alumni, and faculty explain how COIVD-19 has disrupted Black life.

Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology, discusses America's "pandemic spiral."

She's spent little time in Latin America and her Spanish, by her own account, is just “mas o menos.” She’d never coaxed a deal out of proud, broke governments. Yet in a single week, Jennifer O’Neil (BS, Mathematical Biology, '02), helped seal the debt restructuring of Argentina and Ecuador, propelling her into prominence at BlackRock Inc. and in the clubby, male-dominated world of sovereign bond negotiations.

In a paper published July 23 in Population and Development Review, Daphne Liu, a doctoral student in statistics at the UW, and Adrian Raftery, a UW professor of statistics and sociology, explore two nuanced questions: Is increasing contraceptive use or reducing demand more effective in family planning? And, is it the number of years girls attend school or the overall enrollment of children in school that makes education a factor in fertility?

Several missions this year are seeking out life on the red planet. But would we recognize extraterrestrials if we found them? Michael Wong, a postdoctoral astronomy researcher, is referenced.

Scott Freeman, principle lecture emeritus, and Elli Theobald, assistant teaching professor of biology, explain why lecturing actively harms underrepresented minority and low-income students.

Carl Bergstrom, biology professor, discusses university privacy laws and their relation to COVID-19 data.

Emeritus research psychologist Michael D. Beecher discusses the complex calls of song sparrows.