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May 28, 2025 | Course

Fall Elective for Marine Bio Majors: OCEAN 431 – Ocean Change Biology

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Fall Elective for Marine Bio Majors: OCEAN 431 – Ocean Change Biology

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Now hiring: SAFS Undergraduate Research Assistant – apply by June 9

Dr. Frieda B. Taub’s laboratory is looking for a new UGRA to replace one who is graduating this June. Undergraduate Research Assistant, starting June 2025. Apply by June 9.

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Apply for the Washington Sea Grant Keystone Fellowship Program

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Apply by June 24 for the Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Keystone Fellowship, which aims to create pathways into marine-related careers for individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and broaden participation in these fields.

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Apply now for the WSG Coastal Resilience Fellowship

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The Washington Sea Grant Coastal Resilience Fellowship offers a unique, paid educational opportunity for early or shifting career professionals to provide additional capacity for coastal communities around coastal resilience. Apply by June 18, 2025.

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Undergraduate Research Collective: new interdisciplinary research program

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The Office of Undergraduate Research is launching a new interdisciplinary research program, the Undergraduate Research Collective! It’s is a two-year program designed for first-year, second-year, and first-year transfer students with no prior research experience. Students enroll in a two-quarter seminar focused on research preparation and community-building, are matched with a faculty mentor to conduct research, and receive an $8,000 scholarship over the course of their two-year participation. Apply by July 21, 2025.

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May 12, 2025 | Student Spotlight

Congratulations to Mollie Ball, College of the Environment Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist for 2025

Mollie is pictured from behind using binoculars to look out over the coast.

Congratulations to Mollie Ball, named this year as the College of the Environment Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist. Mollie, double majoring in Marine Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology at UW, has been an exceptional student, an outstanding contributor to the College and Marine Biology communities, and a leader amongst the transfer student community.

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May 6, 2025 | Featured, Student Spotlight

Collecting knowledge, skills and experience with the Burke Museum mammal collection

Lauren holds a meaty boat in a lab while conducting a necropsy.

Museum collections tell the story of life on Earth, and are a critical resource for researchers around the globe working on a variety of species, from fish and snails to birds and mammals. In the Burke Museum, the mammal collection is where UW Marine Biology senior, Lauren Grady, has been volunteering for the last two months, building on experience she gained working with the Wood Lab at SAFS.

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Apr 21, 2025 | Featured, Student Spotlight

Fish and Sticks: UW feature story with Ryan Shapero

Ryan Shapero is pictured standing sideways, holding a large drum with the UW logo on it.

Between keeping time for the Husky Marching Band and tossing fish at Pike Place Market, Ryan Shapero, ’27, is as Seattle as it gets. A second-year marine biology student, Ryan loves getting to apply some of that science to his weekend job at Pike Place. He particularly loves when kids come up with the oddest questions. “Multiple times I’ve just been, like, explaining crustacean morphology to a 7-year-old. And they’re into it!” Read his UW feature story.

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Fall 2025 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Program at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences

FULLY FUNDED MARINE RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS FOR U.S. UNDERGRADUATES IN BERMUDA
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (ASU BIOS), a unit of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University, has funding from the National Science Foundation, (NSF Award number OCE-2349130), for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program to support undergraduate researchers during the fall semester 2025 (program starts August 25, ends November 14). 

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Documenting invertebrate biodiversity in the Red Sea with morphological and molecular methods

3-6 months internship with BEM Lab at KAUST university (link). The internship includes relocation costs, housing, tuition, insurance, and a monthly stipend (see internship website). We are looking for students with interests on marine invertebrate taxonomy and ecology.
 
The candidate will join an active and dynamic research group, with ongoing projects related to marine biodiversity. These initiatives involve fieldwork, samples collection, preservation, sorting, identification and sequencing. 

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