Classes purposefully designed to demoralize students — think Organic Chemistry or Dynamics — are antithetical to the goals of higher education.

The idea of consolidating humanities departments should never have occurred at a university of WashU’s stature. Yet sadly, the university experience has become more of a business instead of a site of meaningful self-exploration that the humanities encourages.

WashU and MilliporeSigma, a pharmaceutical company affiliated with the multinational Merck Group, signed a formal non-binding agreement known as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 24, 2025. The agreement would support joint research initiatives between the company and WashU’s schools, including Arts & Sciences, McKelvey, and WashU Medicine.

InBetween, WashU’s annual student-organized pan-Asian mental health conference, was held on April 13. Hosting multiple panels with guests from a variety of backgrounds, I held Q&As with the panelists. These […]

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.

Chemistry professors Richard Loomis and Megan Daschbach delivered this semester’s Last Lecture, a semesterly series where professors give a lecture as if it is their last one ever.

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

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. 

Washington University in St. Louis has been chosen as one of 10 universities to participate in the Kessler Scholars National Collaborative, with the inaugural cohort of scholars being the Class of 2027.

Coming into WashU last fall, I was devoutly opposed to being on the pre-medical school track. I was intimidated by it.