Robert Bilott, an environmental lawyer best known for exposing corporations that dump forever chemicals, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), into the water supply, which can cause disease in people and animals, spoke in Graham Chapel on April 5 to an audience of around 120 people.

Many colleges today have students who are social media influencers that are creating and participating in online culture, trends, and consumer behavior. WashU is no exception.

Student Life (StudLife) (SL) sat down with the incoming editors-in-chief (EIC) for the coming academic year to learn more about them and their goals for the paper. Riley Herron (RH), Managing Sports Editor, and Sydney Tran (Syd) (ST), Head of Design, will begin their tenure Apr. 2.

In the past three years, two WashU professors have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct by students, leading to discourse online and student protests. To date, the University has not commented on its investigations or even confirmed that an investigation is happening. 

The new Dean of Public Health, Dr. Sandro Galea, sat down with Student Life editors Lily Taylor and Zach Trabitz.

BigSteppa Mori began working at Bear’s Den (BD) in early 2022, where she often prepared and distributed half-and-halfs or egg sandwiches alongside her father and sisters. She later moved to Collin’s Farms after it opened at the Law Café. She prepared lunchtime salads there with her two sisters. During the pandemic, Mori took up rapping as a way to pass the time. Now, her most popular song, “Westside Story,” has about 76,000 streams on Spotify, and the music video for the song has nearly 300,000 views on YouTube. She has also accumulated about 75,000 followers on Instagram.

When WashU responded to the cries of hungry students with a new “All You Care to Eat” program in Bear’s Den (BD), two investigative journalists hunkered down in a booth and got to the bottom of it. The bottom of the piles of food on our many plates, that is. That’s how we found ourselves sitting under the blue BD lights on a Friday evening, catfish, chocolate cake, and tuna salad sandwiches piled up in front of us. Let’s rewind a bit to when we wandered into BD, which had transformed into a utopia for grubby little goblins such as […]

Below is an election guide, compiled by Student Life writers, to help WashU students understand Missouri candidates and ballot initiatives. If you are not registered in Missouri, or if you have more questions about voting, polling locations, and Election Day, visit the WashU Votes information hub.

WashU will offer a new master’s program in Reproductive Sciences starting next year to fill what its leaders see as a gap in reproductive health education. The program aims to teach the biology of reproduction, fetal development, and menopausal aging to students interested in clinical health, reproductive health research, and reproductive policy.

Join hosts Aliana Mediratta and Lily Taylor as they bring the heat in a special student edition of the hit YouTube talk show Hot Ones. In this episode, they sit down with WashU English professor Heather McPherson. Watch as Aliana, Lily, and Heather dive into Heather’s past while battling the burn of increasingly spicy half-and-halfs. […]