Support our Program Did you know that even a small donation can have a big impact! One of UWAB’s goals,…
Alumni Updates The UW Astrobiology Program has graduated over 60 alumni, who have exciting careers as faculty members, scientists, university…
Annual Workshop 2020 Unfortunately, due to the ongoing pandemic we were unable to hold our annual workshop this year. We’re…
Polar Microbes Give Peptide Clues For Detecting Life on Icy Worlds Daniel Larsen & Brook Nunn Many bodies in our…
Graduations Please join us in congratulating our latest batch of graduates and wish them well as they move on to…
UWAB student Dominic Sivitilli (Psychology) recorded a presentation for TEDxSeattle that aired late last month, and you can watch the…
UWAB Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Michael Wong was interviewed by the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) Science Communication Working Group…
UWAB faculty member Sharon Doty (SEFS) and her lab recently published a paper “Endophyte-Promoted Phosphorus Solubilization in Populus” in Frontiers…
UAWB Faculty member and VPL researcher Dr. Sarah Keller has been named a 2021 Fellow of the Biophysical Society for…
UWAB Faculty member Sarah Keller, VPL Team member Roy Black, and other collaborators in the Keller Lab in the Chemistry…
Joe Felsenstein, Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences, Biology and the Astrobiology Program, was recently awarded with a Friend of Darwin…
NASA has announced the award of 18 grants for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of…
On September 14 a research group from MIT published an article in Nature Astronomy detailing their detection of Phosphine gas…
Giada Arney (Dual-Title PhD Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2016) and Deputy PI for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, was recently honored by…
Our line-up for the Autumn 2020 Colloquium series has been finalized and includes and mix of amazing experts from outside…
UWAB and Earth & Space Sciences faculty member, Prof. Bruce Nelson, has agreed to serve as the College of the…
UWAB Alum Giada Arney (Dual-Title PhD Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2016) was recently featured in a highlight from NASA Goddard Space…
UWAB Graduate Certificate student Yuk Chun Chan (Atmospheric Sciences) and advisor Becky Alexander’s proposal for the 2020 NASA Future Investigators…
UWAB Program Director Victoria Meadows and program Alum, Giada Arney, served as Editors for a new book published by University…
Gordon (Max) Showalter (Oceanography) successfully defended their dissertation on Wednesday August 19th via Zoom! Please join the Astrobiology Program in…
Diana Windemuth (Astronomy) successfully defended their dissertation for the Dual-Title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology on Monday August 17th via…
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (Astronomy) successfully defended his dissertation on Wednesday July 15th via Zoom! Please join the Astrobiology Program in congratulating…
UWAB students Hannah Dawson and Susan Rundell (Oceanography), alongside their advisor, Prof. Jodi Young, have recently been featured in a…
UWAB Alum, and member of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory Research Group, Dr. Eddie Schwieterman (PhD. Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2016), was…
UWAB postdoctoral researcher, Shintaro Kadoya, and his advisor Prof. David Catling have recently published a paper in Nature Communications that…