humanities

The Workday series: student ambassadors transforming research

WRAP (WashU Research Ambassador Program) hasn’t been around long, but it has been making a difference already. It launched in the Fall 2023 Semester as a student-operated companion to the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), with the goal of improving student access to research as well as general awareness.

| Staff Writer

Learning through experience: Undergraduates present their research at the Fall OUR Symposium

Bauer Hall was bustling with fresh ideas on Friday, Oct. 27 when undergraduate researchers set up posters and presented their work at the Office of Undergraduate Research’s Fall Symposium.

and | Contributing Writer & Staff Writer

What happened to the Renaissance man?

There is power in being a generalist in a world which prioritizes intense, secluding specialization. 

| Junior Forum Editor

You’re not a Woman in STEM, and that’s OK

Whatever other factors are affecting your decisions, don’t let the pressure to study STEM eliminate the possibility of studying another field that you might care about. 

| Junior News Editor

Stop gatekeeping the humanities

Ideas that everyone should read are written to be accessible only for scholars – this restriction of information, intentional or not, needs to stop.

| Staff Writer

Staff Editorial: The Career Fair is for all, not just STEM majors

The Career Fair has in the past–and continues present day–to be dominated by employers that represent STEM majors, leaving humanities majors with few specified options to choose from.

Embracing the humanities’ stereotype

I’m a humanities major. Everyday, I hear the stereotypes—I have no idea what I want to do, I don’t have real work, or I am just taking random classes that I find interesting and probably won’t help me in the job world. Yet just because I’ve been put in a box doesn’t mean it isn’t right—I actually have no idea what I’m doing with my life.

| Staff Writer

School to offer new medical humanities minor

Sophomores and freshmen can now apply to minor in the medical humanities, a new interdisciplinary minor announced this year aimed at studying the intersection of medicine and health studies with the humanities.

| News Editor

A push against overconfidence

35-2 vote against Saint Louis University’s President, Father Biondi, last week has sent murmurs of doomsday for the school’s future rippling through the local community.

The necessity of black studies

African-American studies: an unnecessary, fabricated, pseudo-academic escape from the real sciences. It is simply a “recreational” subject of research, ideally left to one’s leisure on the weekend, or designated downtime during the 28 days of Black History Month.

Brandon Wilson | op-ed submission

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