Washington University announced the construction of a new building for Arts & Sciences located in the center of campus.

Professors across Washington University were required to declare by Nov. 6 whether they will conduct their classes online, hybrid or in-person for the spring 2021 semester.

The office of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and the Physics Department are currently investigating an incident in which Physics 192 exam solutions were posted on Chegg during the exam period.

Feng Sheng Hu will serve as Washington University’s next dean of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, July 1, Chancellor Andrew Martin announced today.

Students put together an online petition last week calling on all academic departments of Washington University to allow students, both undergraduate and graduate, to opt into any class pass-fail with few restrictions and to count those courses toward major, minor and graduation requirements, or for students to choose to keep a letter grade.

After completing a 10-page report on student concerns surrounding the add/drop deadline, Student Union’s academic affairs committee held a meeting Nov. 5 to discuss the impacts of a potential deadline extension.

The Washington University Department of Chemistry introduced a new alternative to Chem 111A: General Chemistry 1 this semester in an effort to better serve students entering the University with less chemistry knowledge.

Many aspects of the Washington University undergraduate academic experience are pre-professional, such as pre-med students studying to become doctors or business students learning about investment banking. However, the humanities majors within the College of Arts & Sciences often have a less defined path in relation to their job outcome.

Washington University’s College of Arts & Sciences made two new majors and a concentration available to students for the 2019-2020 school year. The University now offers a new joint economics and computer science major, an astrophysics major and a production concentration in the Film and Media Studies department. With these new areas of study, students […]

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Jen Smith is running focus groups on the various sources behind student stress. Smith decided to form the focus groups after results of a survey indicated that stress and anxiety had risen among the undergraduate study body.