Student Groups & Events
As a Brown School student you will discover numerous events designed to build supportive connections among you and your cohort. Starting with New Student Orientation and continuing through the year, you’ll find numerous opportunities to build connections with your Brown School peers as well as other graduate students across the University.
Events may include quarterly Brown School happy hours, Halloween trick-or-treating, monthly Caffeine with the Deans, the student-led WashU Pow Wow, the annual Cultural Showcase, the student research symposium Research Without Walls, and the end-of-year Commencement.
Annual events in the community also offer a great opportunity to discover St. Louis with your classmates. Student favorites have included the Festival of Nations, the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, the St. Louis International Film Festival, Garden Glow at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and PrideFest.
Washington University Student Groups
WashU student groups bring together students from across the university’s seven schools. Below is a small sampling of the WashU groups driving advocacy, programming and impact across campus and throughout the region. We encourage you to keep exploring the breadth of opportunities, Graduate Student Groups Information.
Membership in registered university-wide graduate student groups is open to all graduate and professional students of the University and does not limit eligibility based on race, color, national origin, shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, sex, or other protected characteristics.
Black Graduate Student Association
The Black Graduate Student Association seeks to build community amongst incoming, continuing, and past graduate and professional students of African descent across the African diaspora. We also strive to reach out and support other members of the Black community on WashU campus(es) and in the greater St. Louis area. BGSA’s creation was catalyzed by graduate students’ firm belief in the importance of having an organized and active space for Black graduate students to know each other, support each other, and address the concerns of the Black community both inside and outside of the University. Our efforts are inclusive as we aim to build alliances and partnerships with other organizations across campus.
Chinese Students and Scholars Association
CSSA is an independent, non-political, non-profit organization of the Chinese Students and Scholars (CSS), by the CSS, and for the CSS. Our goals are to assist Chinese students and scholars at WashU and share the Chinese culture with the entire university. Membership is open to all graduate students.
Graduate Christian Fellowship
WashU GCF exists to be a place where graduate and professional students at Washington University can encounter, know and enjoy Jesus Christ.
Graduate Professional Student Council
The Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) is the unified student government for all graduate and professional students at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jewish Graduate Group
We’re the Jewish Graduate Group (JGG), a community for Jewish grad students and allies at WashU. We get together for all sorts of things—social, professional, and cultural. Our goal is simple: to build a strong community, support each other, and help you grow in your career.
Korean Graduate Student Association
KGSA aims to maintain a friendly social atmosphere and solidarity within the community of Korean graduate students at WashU; and promotes assisting all students at WashU to have broader and more insightful understanding of Korea and its cultures.
Latin Graduate Student Alliance
The Latin Graduate Student Association (LGSA) is a student group that addresses the social, educational, and professional needs of Latin graduate students and those interested in Latina/o and Latin American issues at WashU. LGSA strives to increase awareness and understanding of social, economic, cultural, and political issues affecting the Latin community at large.
ProSPER: WU Students Promoting Science Policy, Education and Research
WashU Graduate Students Promoting Science Policy, Education and Research (ProSPER) facilitates student exploration of the relations between science and policy.
Taiwanese Graduate Student Association
The mission of TGSA is to promote the culture of Taiwan and to encourage the interaction, cooperation, and goodwill in and among all organizations of WashU. Membership is open to all graduate students.
WashU Graduate Nature Trippers
WashU Graduate Nature Trippers is a group for outdoor enthusiasts at the graduate and professional schools at WashU.