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…
A paper by Astrobiology student Mike Kipp (ESS) and UWAB Alumna Eva Stueeken (2014), now at University of St Andrews…
Astronomers in the University of Washington’s Astrobiology Program are continuing their exciting discoveries of nearby potentially habitable planets…
Paul Kintner (ESS/AB) had his M.S. defense. His presentation was titled “New Estimates of Ice and Oxygen Fluxes Across the…
Rodrigo Luger successfully defended his dissertation to earn his Astronomy and Astrobiology Dual-Title PhD. He discussed his work on understanding…
Astronomy/AB Dual-Title PhD student Diana Windemuth successfully passed her general exam titled “Detection and Characterization of Circumbinary Planets”. Congratulations!
Please join us in congratulating Guadalupe Tovar, Dominic Sivitilli, and Zachary Cohen for being admitted to the University of Washington’s Astrobiology program.…
AB graduate student Steven Sholes is the lead author of a paper that uses a one-dimensional photochemical model to consider…
Guadalupe (Lupita) Tovar was featured in the latest University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences’ newsletter. Congrats!
UWAB graduate students Michael Diamond and Andrew Lincowski have been awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships (NESSF). Michael Diamond’s…
Brett Morris presented his work “Physics of the Solar Dynamo and the Solar Cycle” and successfully became a PhD Candidate.…
If you missed our annual AB public lecture, do not fret! View the lecture.
Dr. Tyler Robinson has been offered the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern…
Osa has officially moved Doctoral Candidate after successfully passing her general exam. She gave a presentation on her work, “ISRU…