In September of this year, WashU’s Olin Business School created new grading guidelines, recommending that professors assign letter grades so that they average out to an equivalent of 3.3 or 3.4 GPA in ...

For the third straight season, WashU women’s soccer will kick off its playoff run at home, with its first game scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 15, at 11 a.m. The Bears enter the tournament as Division ...

With 7.4 seconds remaining in a game that would decide the University Athletic Association (UAA) championship, the No. 12 WashU men’s soccer team lined up to defend a free kick directly outside the ...

8:13 p.m. — Just past the entrance to Edison Theatre, senior Shruthi Madhugiri was pacing and furiously typing on her phone. It was Tuesday night. As I opened the door, she looked up, smiled, and ...

About two-thirds of WashU students who responded to a recent Student Life survey reported using AI chatbots like ChatGPT for academic tasks during their time in college. Yet, roughly the same share ...

WashU Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced that the University will not sign the Trump administration’s proposed higher education compact. In an email sent to faculty midday Wednesday, Martin wrote ...

The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Alberto Musalem, told members of the WashU community he expects U.S. inflation to decrease after the next 2 to 3 quarters and for the national ...

On Sept. 15, 2025, America First Legal (AFL) filed a complaint against WashU’s School of Medicine for its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices, asking the Department of Justice to open an ...

WashU has eliminated 316 staff positions and “closed 198 open and vacant positions” from the Danforth and Medical campuses and the Central Fiscal Unit (CFU), Chancellor Andrew Martin announced in a ...

Rudolph Clay and Clara McLeod, two longtime WashU subject librarians, were let go over the summer as part of WashU Libraries’ budget restructuring. Clay’s research specialties were African & African ...

Next week, WashU students will register for the Spring 2026 semester. Doing so successfully, however, means planning ahead. Charting out integrations, scouring pre-eqs, and trusting Rate My Professors ...

In this edition of Headphones On, Student Life’s multimedia team, Sanchali Pothuru, Molly Fletcher, and Alan Knight, hit campus to find out what’s playing in students’ ears. Hear as students’ ...