L&S News  Tag: research

As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, sophomore Liz Sanchez Garcia investigates how solar panels and their changing light conditions can be a good thing for plants, renewable energy and career aspirations.

Concrete has been used as the material of modern cities, but Siddharth Menon investigates how just one material can reveal the larger ripples of environmental and political trends in ordinary lives.

Chris Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Botany, is part of a team that received a three-year $1.3 million award from the National Science Foundation.

Andrea Dutton’s unconventional road led her from majoring in music to becoming a prominent geochemist and field geologist in the scientific community.

Assistant Professor Aja Watkins examines the sciences through a philosophical lens.

In her first-person essay about her experience as an Undergraduate Research Scholar, L&S senior Corina Robinson shares her belief that research and creative practice need each other and says “the world does not move forward unless we have both.”

John Berry is a transition metal chemist. That means he experiments with elements in “the big middle part of the periodic table” that are able to bond with one another in strange and interesting ways, producing electronic properties that can initiate new types of chemistry—including in the field of catalysis.

From mushrooms to mildews, fungi form the webs of life. UW experts are working to expand our knowledge of their roles and powers.

Researchers at the UW’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences find innovative ways to improve our daily lives.