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The report has generated significant pushback from humanities professors, the WashU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and the Director of the WashU Center for the Humanities, among others.
Bloomberg initially reported that WashU Chancellor Andrew D. Martin was among four university leaders to help draft the letter. Martin denies this said that, while he has met in the last several months with the administration about issues related to higher education, he did not help draft the letter.
Professor Guoyan Zhao, an associate professor in the Departments of Genetics and Neurology at the WashU School of Medicine, died on May 15, 2026. She was 54 years old. Zhao is remembered by her colleagues as a brilliant, dedicated scientist as well as a deeply caring mentor and friend.
The report has generated significant pushback from humanities professors, the WashU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and the Director of the WashU Center for the Humanities, among others.
The No. 7 WashU softball team is the University Athletic Association (UAA) champion for the second year in a row after going 2-1 against Emory University on May 8 and 9.
No. 18 WashU baseball opened the weekend of April 25-26 in dominant fashion, exploding with an 11-run inning in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Case Western Reserve University — their second-highest single-inning total all season.
On April 24, 25, and 26, No. 3 WashU women’s tennis played in the University Athletic Association (UAA) conference tournament in Altamonte Springs, Florida. While the weekend began with control and confidence, the Bears fell to No. 1 University of Chicago — ending their run just shy of the championship title.
Here's what's happening: WashU is wasting money on educationally irrelevant investments, taxing Arts & Sciences (and its other schools) to make up for its deficits, and defunding what matters.
If, as college students, we want to stand at the edge of the future, we cannot just drift along with every new model coming from Anthropic or OpenAI. We have to... imagine them ourselves.
Like our government, University administration uses police presence and legal repercussions as a fear tactic against protesting, but we should not and cannot let them scare us into advocating for change.
That titular workplace “Beef” kicks off a thoroughly entertaining whirlwind of backstabbing, deception and country club attire in the new season of Netflix’s anthology series. An excellent score by FINNEAS, strong performances, and unexpected humor anchor the show, but somewhat messy storytelling prevents this “Beef” from being perfectly well-done.
Before the term “brain rot” was popularized and named the 2024 Oxford word of the year, senior and studio art major Helen Ives translated a split-screen “brain rot” TikTok of a Subway Surfers game and an ASMR slime video overlaid with a “storytime” into a painting.
The annual concert of the WashU student music group Spring Ensemble took place on campus on Sunday, April 19, at 7 p.m. The event, titled “Echo of the Spring Hills,” featured many traditional Chinese instruments. As an international student from China, it’s been too long since I heard any of those instruments, so I decided to check it out. Turns out, it was indeed worth my time, as I witnessed how music genuinely brings people together across times and cultures.
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