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Washington University has over 300 registered undergraduate student organizations on campus. All are funded by WUSTL's student government, the Washington University Student Union, which has an approximately $3.6 million annual budget that is completely student controlled and is one of the largest student government budgets in the country.
Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis Image Chancellor Year Joseph Gibson Hoyt [1] 1858–1863 William Chauvenet: 1863–1869 Abram Litton (acting) 1869–1870 William Greenleaf Eliot: 1870–1887 Marshall Snow (acting) 1887–1891 Winfield Scott Chaplin: 1891–1907 Marshall Snow (acting) 1907–1908 David Franklin Houston: 1908–1917
The university's main student-run political publication is the Washington University Political Review (nicknamed "WUPR"), a self-described "multipartisan" monthly magazine. Washington University undergraduates publish two literary and art journals, The Eliot Review and Spires Intercollegiate Arts and Literary Magazine.
The Danforth Campus is the main campus at Washington University in St. Louis.Formerly known as the Hilltop Campus, it was officially dedicated as the Danforth Campus on September 17, 2006, in honor of William H. Danforth, the 13th chancellor of the university, the Danforth family and the Danforth Foundation.
Student Life (StudLife) is the independent student-run newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis.It was founded in 1878 and incorporated in 1999. It is published by the Washington University Student Media, Inc. [1] and is not subject to the approval of the University administration, thus making it an independent student voice.
For example, of Washington University's eleven Fulbright Scholarship recipients in 2011, seven were recent alumni of the College of Arts and Sciences, and three were Arts and Sciences graduate students. [3] In addition, two students were selected as Rhodes Scholars in 2017–2018 and another student was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist in 2016.
WILD, produced by the WUSTL Social Programming Board, is sponsored by the Washington University Student Union and is the largest student run event at the university. [2] WILD is free to university undergraduate students and has rooted itself in the campus culture as an exciting time of the semester for students of the university to get together ...
The James McKelvey School of Engineering is a part of Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1854, the engineering school is a research institution occupying seven buildings on Washington University's Danforth Campus. Research emphasis is placed on cross-disciplinary technologies in the areas of alternative energy, environmental ...