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 Sue Moore, a research scientist and affiliate professor in the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington, was honored with the 2026 Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Marine Mammalogy. The award recognizes exemplary lifetime contributions to science and society through research, teaching, and service in marine mammalogy. Over a 40-year career, Moore’s research 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 University of Washington 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 researchers at Yale University and the University of Washington 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 researchers has finally caught water in the act — showing how water molecules pass along excess charges and, in the process, conduct electricity.