WashU’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing has ended its postgraduate fellowship, a one-year program where students in the MFA program had the opportunity to teach classes as a postgraduate fellow for a year following the completion of their two-year degree.

Eve — a pseudonym that is being used for her safety — is now an undergraduate at a U.S. university who has endured about 10 years of hardship as an undocumented person in the country. 

Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson spoke about death, climate change, and its political and economic dimensions in Graham Chapel on April 17. This talk comes following what Robinson called “attacks on human health” and a “destruction of science” imposed by the Trump administration.

Four postdoctoral researchers — Marc Blanc, Jessica Samuel, Jesse J. Lee, and Danielle Williams — spoke in a panel titled “Humanities Politicized” on April 17 to address the status of humanities research in academia amid funding cuts and restrictions to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by the Trump administration that began in early April. 

Less than four months into 2025, WashU has seen five reports of trespassing in student dorms and residential buildings on the Danforth Campus — up from three reports in all of 2024, and one break-in in all of 2023 — according to a Student Life analysis of the crime log updated by the Washington University Police Department (WUPD) every 48 hours. 

First-year Arianna Zeldin recently started a new conservative podcast titled Beyond the Ballot and invited sophomore Ella Bruno, the current president of the WashU Republicans, to be a co-host. The podcast, which intends to host Chancellor Andrew Martin in its forthcoming second episode, explains that it will provide “Conservative views, Bold discussions, unfiltered takes on today’s political climate.” 

Mensah founded the “Justice for Janis” coalition, which advocates for the city to drop charges against Mensah and educate individuals on problems within the St. Louis prison system. Since its inception, the coalition has received almost 300 petition signatures and gained the sponsorship of 20 different organizations.

The Trump administration has revoked visas for over 25 international students at universities in the St. Louis area, including St. Louis University and Webster University, as well as terminated the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records of select international students at WashU as reported by local news outlets on Tuesday, April 15. The government-run SEVIS database tracks information about non-immigrant students in the US, including their visa status.  

All five of the proposed amendments to the Student Union (SU) constitution failed in a special election held from April 15 to April 16.

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.