Science Highlights – Fall 2020

Polar Microbes Give Peptide Clues For Detecting Life on Icy Worlds  Daniel Larsen & Brook Nunn Many bodies in our…

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Program Updates – Fall 2020

Graduations Please join us in congratulating our latest batch of graduates and wish them well as they move on to…

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UWAB At a Glance – Fall 2019

Please join us in congratulating our latest batch of graduates and wish them well as they move on to their…

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Searching for Life in the Great Beyond

The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington covered a story on Searching for Life in the Great Beyond. In the interview, Professor Victoria Meadows highlights how team members are working towards answering the question of: “Are We Alone?” At VPL we use simulators with different capabilities to figure out what instrument would work best to make the sort of observations we want to make. We share this information with NASA, because NASA wants to know how it can use its assets to best search for life in the Universe.” The Virtual Planetary Laboratory is so instrumental in identifying the needs of future space technology that NASA recently awarded it a grant totaling $11 million over the next five years.

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