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  • June 10, 2024
    WSAS Executive Director Donna Gerardi Riordan to transition to new role

    After seven years of leading the Washington State Academy of Sciences through unprecedented growth, Gerardi Riordan is stepping down as Executive Director in November.

  • May 12, 2024
    2024 Washington State American Junior Academy of Sciences Delegate selected as presidential scholar

    2024 AJAS Delegate Kosha Upadhyay is one of 5 students from Washington State selected as a presidential scholar, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students.

  • Students standing on stairs
    April 29, 2024
    Inspiring young scientists inducted into the American Junior Academy of Science

    11 high school students from across Washington State along with roughly 110 of the nation’s most promising scientists from 21 other states, were recognized for their outstanding scientific research.

  • November 1, 2023
    WSAS awarded grant from the National Conference of State Legislatures to plan a WA State S&T Policy Fellowship program

    Over the next year, WSAS will work collaboratively with legislators and other stakeholders to design a nonpartisan fellowship program that meets the needs of legislators in Washington state.

  • headshots of AJAS delegates
    October 23, 2023
    WSAS selects 11 students to serve as WA State delegates at the American Junior Academy of Science

    Students were selected based on original STEM research they conducted while in high school.

  • wastewater plant
    August 10, 2023
    WA stakeholders share experiences from the frontlines to inform National Academies report

    WSAS held a joint meeting with the National Academies on wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance.

  • Headshots of board members
    July 17, 2023
    WSAS announces new members, leadership on board of directors

    Current board members Allison Campbell elected as president-elect and Doug Call takes on secretary; Susmita Bose and Terry McElwain to join board.

  • Collage of 2023 new members
    July 16, 2023
    New members elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

    29 new members recognized for their scientific achievement and willingness to work on behalf of the academy for the benefit of Washington State.

  • October 2, 2021
    Misinformation and vaccines: How public health messaging and experts can help curb distrust

    The 2021 WSAS symposium, "COVID-19 Science & Society" was covered.

  • Stephan Blanford (left) and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker. (Photos via Children’s Alliance and WSU)
    September 26, 2021
    How disparities for women and minorities widened during the pandemic

    The 2021 WSAS symposium, "COVID-19: Science & Society" was covered.

  • An orca whale leaps out of the water near a whale-watching boat whose passengers happen to be looking the other way near the San Juan Islands in July 2015. The state Fish and Wildlife Commission has adopted stricter rules around whale watching of southern resident orcas.
    December 22, 2020
    New whale-watching restrictions enacted to protect southern resident orcas

    The work of the WSAS Underwater Acoustics and Disturbance Committee was mentioned.

  • October 14, 2020
    New rules would greatly reduce whale watching around endangered southern resident orcas

    The work of the WSAS Underwater Acoustics and Disturbance Committee was mentioned.

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