On May 4, 2018, first year UW Astronomy & Astrobiology graduate student Guadalupe Tovar participated in the “Women’s Economic Empowerment – Breaking…
Earth and Space Sciences and Astrobiology grad student Josh Krissansen-Totton’s research rotation took him to the “dreaming spires” of Oxford…
Astronomy and Astrobiology grad student Brett Morris’ research rotation let him swap his telescope for a microscope as he learned…
Dr. Jon Toner was recently appointed as a Research Assistant Professor with Earth and Space Sciences and the UW Astrobiology…
To showcase the career opportunities for UWAB graduates, UWAB grad student Stephen Sholes sat down with UWAB Alumna Dr. Elena…
Many of our UW Astrobiology alumni fly high and far, and here we showcase the impressive and exciting career of…
UW Astrobiology Faculty Member Dr. Eric Agol is a Professor of Astronomy and a TESS Science Team Member. Here he uses…
By: Jana Meixnerová, ESS Department In later October 2018, 12 graduate students and 4 senior staff members of the UW Astrobiology…
On June 14, at a ceremony at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, Prof. Victoria Meadows was awarded the 2018…
The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington covered a story on
UWAB student Jana Meixnerová (ESS Department) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on the experience: In later October 2018, 12…
Profs. Jonathan(PI) and David Catling (Co-I) were awarded a new 3-year NASA Habitable Worlds grant for a project with the…
The TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven terrestrial-sized planets, in and around the habitable zone of their small M dwarf host star.…
Graduate students and postdocs from the Astrobiology Program and Genome Sciences Department met with NASA astronaut Dr. Kate Rubins to…
Work by UW NASA astrobiology postdoc, Mackenzie Day (who has just started as an Assistant Professor at UCLA), and her…
UWAB Alum Aomawa Shields, Ph.D., the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor also in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at…
UW researchers in the Virtual Planetary Laboratory led and were co-authors on a series of papers published in the journal Astrobiology outlining…
Astrobiology Graduate Certificate and Physics Ph.D. student Marshall Styczinski, was just awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)!…
Astrobiology/ESS student Josh Krissansen-Totton was awarded the annual UW College of the Environment “Graduate Dean’s Medalist Award” for outstanding academic…
Our 2017 workshop took us to Pasadena California to visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The SETI Institute’s prestigious award is named for Dr. Frank Drake, the pioneering astronomer who founded the modern field of…
Russell Deitrick (Astronomy/AB) successfully defended his dissertation. His presentation was titled “Orbital Dynamics and Habitability of Exoplanets.” Following graduation, Russell…
Recent work by UWAB faculty member, and member of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory research group, Eric Agol has been highlighted…