Spirit Articles

The summer before my senior year of high school, I participated in Portfolio Plus, a precollege art program offered by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. For three weeks, I stepped into life as a WashU student—and I loved it. At WashU, I could seriously study art without sacrificing my varied academic […]

More than a decade has passed, but I still remember the “Community Building, Building Community” course I took during my first year as a Washington University undergraduate. As a kid from suburban New Jersey, my experience of St. Louis up to that point extended about as far as Forest Park and the Delmar Loop. Bob […]

When I enrolled at Washington University, I was undecided about my major. Fortunately, WashU offers students the freedom to explore and determine a path well-suited to their backgrounds and aspirations. It did not take me long to do just that. I quickly found my home on the Danforth Campus in the Department of African and […]

Gift will help ensure all students can fully engage in the WashU experience by dramatically increasing resources for emergency and educational enrichment expenses.

Initiative will empower Danforth Scholars to discover their talents and clarify their values as they prepare for careers and lives in service of the greater good.

Support for the McDonnell International Scholars Academy from the family of Ja Song, former president of South Korea’s Yonsei University, will nurture future global leaders.

As co-chairs of the Danforth Circle membership committee, the couple aim to build relationships with like-minded philanthropists who want to make an impact through annual giving.