Research

Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum, discusses whether more posionous spiders thriving in Australia's wildfires should be of concern to citizens.

Biology Professor Janneke Hille Ris Lambers discusses community scientists and the important role they play in collecting consistent data on changing ecosystems.

Biology Professor Jeffery Riffell explain why mosquitos are so drawn to flowers.

Ben Marwick, associate professor of anthropology discusses an ancient aboriginal aquaculture system recently uncovered by the Australian wildfires.

David Barash, professor emeritus of psychology, discusses monogamy in the animal kingdom.

Associate professor of physics, Gray Rybka, discusses how new technology that creates "atom waves" could impact the field of physics.

Julie Brines, associate professor of sociology, weighs in on whether it's true that more couples divorce in January than other months of the year.

Emily Levesque, assistant professor of astronomy, elaborates on how new observations have allowed a star to be studied more closely.

Gerald Miller, physics professor, discusses the history of how what we know about the atom was discovered.

How can a nation heal from a civil war? UW doctoral student Francis Abugbilla traveled to Côte d’Ivoire for answers.

Doctoral student Emily Rabe loves puzzles, and finds plenty in her chemistry research on solar energy.

A UW study, the largest of its kind, has found that transgender children experience their gender identity as much as cisgender children.

A new UW study found that transgender children have as strong a sense of their gender identity as their cisgender peers.

Students and professors show the diverse research, opportunities, and learning at the UW through this photoset.

Associate professor of anthropology, Dan Eisenberg, discusses research into genetic links to longevity.