internships
A summer with the stars
Through the help of Furman’s internship program, junior Caroline Phillips traveled to Los Angeles, California for a summer internship where she brushed shoulders with Hollywood stars Jay Pharoah, Ne-Yo, John Ham, and Ben Affleck. The...
Continue ReadingStudent works with Canadian Parliament
Imagine working in a busy government office all day. Now imagine being in a busy government office all day where everyone speaks a foreign language. Furman junior Lee Bolton had the chance to intern with...
Continue ReadingBreaking boundaries and bettering lives
Just three months after she graduated with a double major in political science and Spanish and a double minor in poverty studies and Latin American studies, Cassandra “Cassie” Chee ’15 arrived in Las Cruces, New...
Continue ReadingJoe Fretwell is first Furman student to intern at the JFK Presidential Library
Not everyone gets to examine the Presidential mailbag. But this summer, that’s exactly what Joe Fretwell ’16 got to do. In Fretwell’s case, he was reading and digitizing correspondence from the John F. Kennedy...
Continue ReadingKirby Funt ’16 spends summer in Shanghai developing marketing strategy for MeWe
For her first assignment as a summer intern, Kirby Funt was tasked with designing the main interface for a medical company’s online consulting platform. While she hadn’t designed a website before, Funt was willing to...
Continue ReadingLanding a Dream Job in the National Football League
Through a combination of determination and luck, Furman alum Kelly Schutz ’10 landed her dream job as Public Relations Coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And after five seasons with the team, the Wisconsin native...
Continue ReadingA lead worth following
John Kiser ’14 was sitting at his desk in his Atlanta office when he got a long-distance phone call from Tacoma, Wash. The caller said she knew the whereabouts of a 55-year-old man, Robert...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute selects new class of DLI fellows
The Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative has selected its 20th Class of Fellows. The 45 incoming class members will join more than 1,500 Riley Fellows from across the state to participate in DLI. “DLI and the...
Continue ReadingBusiness at the top of the world
New York businesses beckoned—and 21 Furman students and two professors headed to the economic hub of the United States. About 60 percent of the students participating in Furman’s Business at the Top of World class...
Continue ReadingA presidential appointment
When Sustainability Science/Spanish major Michael Robinson ’16 received an internship in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Energy and Climate Change, he thought he’d be in for a fair amount of administrative duties....
Continue ReadingA documentary of hope
Hope Ogunsile, a Furman University junior majoring in film and business, parlayed her skills into an internship last summer with the Riley institute at Furman, the Charleston YMCA, and Camp Hope. She presented a poster...
Continue ReadingA daily dose of art
Jhanay Williams ’14 was wrestling with a life-changing decision as she approached graduation from Furman last year. On one side, there was the safe place to purse her master’s degree: New York University, located in...
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