chemistry
Aconabolics earns Trent Stubbs ’20 first place at second Innovation Hour
The second Innovation Hour competition wasn’t rigged, exactly, but to have a chance to beat Trent Stubbs ’20 you also had to have an idea that was literally one of the most innovative in Furman...
Continue ReadingFurman plays role in NSF grant to advance women in STEM
The statistics from the National Science Foundation are sobering: Women across all ethnicities fall well behind men in the number who hold full professorships in science, technology, engineering and math. To target the gender gap, the...
Continue ReadingFurman professor elected fellow of AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected George C. Shields, a Furman University chemistry professor, to the rank of fellow in the organization. This year’s cohort includes 443 members; they will...
Continue ReadingThe Power List 2019
It's a small list of 100 scientists from around the globe, yet The Analytical Scientist's Power List 2019 contains two accomplished Furman University alumni--Fran Ligler ’72 and Aaron Wheeler ’97. [caption id="attachment_41844" align="alignright" width="400"] Fran...
Continue ReadingMartha Milam ’90 receives presidential award for teaching excellence
East Coweta High School chemistry teacher Martha Milam has been named as a state of Georgia winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest award given by the U.S....
Continue ReadingProfessor, student patent research breakthrough, start company on campus
Furman Professor of Chemistry Greg Springsteen and Trent Stubbs ’20 haven’t found the origin of life (yet). What they have found, however, has the potential to help save ones already here, which, as consolation prizes...
Continue ReadingFurman celebrates start of 2019-20 academic year with opening Convocation
Once a homeless high school dropout, LaDavia Drummond Just ’02 today possesses four college degrees and is a Fulbright Scholar teaching pharmacology to second-year medical students at Uganda Christian University School in Kampala, Uganda. That...
Continue ReadingNew equipment grant will give faculty, students a look inside molecules
Furman University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to acquire a 500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer for interpreting the composition of molecules. This is the second major...
Continue ReadingFurman listed in 2020 Princeton Review’s ‘Best Colleges’ guide
Furman University has once again been selected for inclusion in the newest edition of The Princeton Review’s college guide, “The Best 385 Colleges.” Among the featured lists the publication cited as being especially important to...
Continue ReadingChemistry professor Anderson receives Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Furman Associate Professor of Chemistry Mary Elizabeth (“Beth”) Anderson has been granted a 2019 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. The annual awards program supports the research and teaching...
Continue ReadingMS-CEM Program welcomes new class
When Furman’s Master of Science in Community Engaged Medicine (MS-CEM) program welcomed its second class in June, very little had changed from the year before. Same 34-credit course mix of hard science and public health...
Continue ReadingComputational chemistry conference at Furman spurs innovation, academic diversity
More than 100 chemists from across the nation will convene in Greenville, South Carolina, when Furman University hosts the 18th annual MERCURY Conference for Undergraduate Computational Chemistry July 15-19. Founded in 2001, Molecular Education and...
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