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Parker Travel Awards thumbnail

Conor Herlihy and Lizzie Plender have been awarded Parker Travel Awards for best poster at the 2026 department retreat.



From Fellowship to Findings: Syd Sattler on the Embryo’s Earliest Immune Cells thumbnail

Syd Sattler’s research is featured on the UW School of Medicine’s website.


Waterston Travel Award thumbnail

Congratulations to Max Dippel, Claire Elbon, Sophia Gibson, Chris Hsu, Anna Leipertz, Dustin Mullaney, Ananthan Nambiar, Samvardhini Sridharan, and Katarina Vlajic!


GS Outstanding Service Award thumbnail

Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Bonny Brewer (faculty), Josh Malamy (staff), Joe Min (student), Ryan Friedman (postdoc)


Joe Felsenstein elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society thumbnail

The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences.