Natural Sciences Division

Recent honors for College of Arts & Sciences faculty and staff. 

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

Founded 100 years ago with two faculty, the UW Department of Psychology—and the field of psychology—has come a long way. 

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

The 2016 election made clear that the Electoral College does not weigh votes from all states equally.

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.

Although pay equity for women has improved, men are still paid more for the same work. Why is the problem even worse in King County than elsewhere?

Research shows that in the U.S., both adults and older children believe that math is a male activity. 

This week’s discovery of seven planets around a distant star has a connection right here at the University of Washington. The star is called TRAPPIST-1 and the scientist is Eric Agol.

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. 

African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.

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

In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.

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