Natural Sciences Division

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.

The UW has been given $12.5M in federal funding to lead a cohort of institutions tackling foundational challenges in the field of data science.

Center for Conservation Biology orca researcher Deborah Giles explains Southern orca resident presence in the Salish Sea.

Christian Sidor, biology professor, discusses the history of hibernation.

Carl Bergstrom, biology professor, explains America's lack of a strategy for asymptomatic testing.

The UW has received $12.5M of federal funding to lead a group of institutions tackling data science challenges.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to establish a NSF Research Traineeship at the UW for graduate students in quantum information science and technology, or QIST.

Jayadev Athreya, associate professor of mathematics, explains research into the Dodecahedron, a shape formed with twelve pentagons.

Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology, explains how missteps from public health agencies worry health experts.

Megan Whitney, doctoral student in biology, and Christian Sidor, biology professor discuss new evidence suggesting a species that roamed the Earth with the dinosaurs hibernated.

Deborah Giles, researcher from the Center for Conservation Biology, and her dog, Eba, research killer whales in the Puget Sound.