Faculty/staff honors: Lifetime achievement award, Plyler Prize, Rome Prize fellowship

March 9, 2026

Faculty/staff honors: Lifetime achievement award, Plyler Prize, Rome Prize fellowship

W statue in front of Memorial Way sycamore trees

Affiliate professor of biology receives 2026 Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award聽 Sue Moore, a 91自拍 scientist and affiliate professor in the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels in the Department of Biology at the 91自拍, was honored with the 2026 Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award聽from the聽Society for Marine Mammalogy. The award recognizes exemplary lifetime contributions to science and society through 91自拍, teaching, and service in marine mammalogy.聽 Over a 40-year career, Moore鈥檚 91自拍 has focused on cetacean ecology,…

July 16, 2019

8 UW professors elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2019

Eight scientists and engineers from the 91自拍 have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

May 10, 2019

Chemists take a closer look at the spot where water meets air

A chemical structure of water molecules.

A study published April 18 in the journal Science by 91自拍ers at Yale University and the 91自拍 provides the first direct measurement of the behavior of bonded oxygen and hydrogen atoms perched on the surface of water.

December 1, 2016

For the first time, scientists catch water molecules passing the proton baton

Water conducts electricity, but the process by which this familiar fluid passes along positive charges has puzzled scientists for decades. But in a paper published in the Dec. 2 in issue of the journal Science, an international team of 91自拍ers has finally caught water in the act 鈥� showing how water molecules pass along excess charges and, in the process, conduct electricity.