Graduate
Bioentrepreneurship Core (BEC)
Focused on biotechnology-based entrepreneurial opportunities and skills
BEC is a graduate student-led multidisciplinary group open to all WashU affiliates, begun in 2004 and now comprising upward of 400 members. Its mission is to educate students, faculty, and staff regarding biotechnology-based entrepreneurial opportunities and skills.
Latino Graduate Student Alliance (LGSA)
Focused on the social, educational, and professional needs of Latinx graduate students
The Latino Graduate Student Alliance is a graduate student group that addresses the social, educational, and professional needs of Latina/o graduate students and those interested in Latina/o and Latin American issues at Washington University. We strive to increase awareness and understanding of social, economic, cultural, and political issues affecting the Latino community at large.
OUTgrads
LGBTQIA group for graduate and professional students, faculty, and staff
OUTgrads is an LGBTQIA group dedicated to developing community among Washington University graduate and professional students, faculty, and staff of all genders and sexual orientations. It provides social support and professional development opportunities, and promotes awareness of issues that affect LGBT communities.
Sling Health
Solving medical problems. Training innovators. Improving healthcare.
Sling Health STL the founding chapter of a national student-run non-profit organization founded in 2013 by medical students at Washington University in St. Louis in order to confront the surplus of unsolved clinical problems they encountered within the hospitals. Our organization brings together a diverse group of students, clinicians, and local entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize medtech solutions that ultimately improve patient health care.
Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
Supporting pre-med and medical students of color
The mission of SNMA is to promote an environment in which minority medical students can excel, to increase social consciousness within the medical community and to improve health care delivery to the medically underserved.