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Congressman David Trone ’77 and wife June give Furman $10 million to support mental health, Hillel
The gift will help expand the counseling center, launch an integrative approach to mental health and wellbeing, and create the Hillel Endowment Fund.
Continue ReadingNew minor in data analytics adds up for Furman students
Ian Martens is a numbers guy. He majored in economics and information technology at Furman, and when a new minor in data analytics launched his junior year, he jumped at it. “Data is going to...
Continue ReadingProfessors, students and alumni bring a new play to the New York stage
In the middle of the night, on a rural highway just outside the small college town of Troy, Alabama, a retired college professor and her daughter encounter a naked man stumbling around their back yard....
Continue ReadingMarra Edwards ’23 scores semifinals in mock trial’s ‘best of the best’ contest
For those who make it to the big dance of mock trial, the American Mock Trial Association’s National Championship Tournament, or are eligible for AMTA competition, only 16 students have a chance to compete in...
Continue ReadingConor Bready ’24 and Colin Burdette ’23 named Beckman Scholars
Conor Bready ’24 stopped mid-sentence when he first got the notification. Bready, of Highland, New York, was out at lunch with a couple of friends when he learned he had received one of two Furman...
Continue ReadingHow connecting local organizations can aid conservation
Over two summer research trips to Costa Rica, a Furman professor and her students got the opportunity to study the successes and challenges of landscape-scale conservation efforts up close. [caption id="attachment_56074" align="alignleft" width="250"] Karen Allen[/caption]...
Continue ReadingAlum wraps up record-setting feat – link by link
A moment of restlessness in class started a chain of events that led Elizabeth Allen ’20 M’22 to a Guinness World Record. The project she spent years creating is now officially recognized as the world’s...
Continue ReadingFurman named a Best Value College for 2022 by The Princeton Review
Furman University has been named a Best Value College for 2022 by The Princeton Review based on data from its surveys of administrators at about 650 colleges in 2021-2022. The company also factored in data...
Continue ReadingSenior Spotlight 2022
From graduate school to first jobs, find out what these six members of the Class of 2022 are doing after graduation in our annual Senior Spotlight gallery. University Communications would like to offer a special...
Continue ReadingPathways course approved to guide students through The Furman Advantage
Furman University faculty have voted to make Pathways, a two-year program central to The Furman Advantage, a graduation requirement for all students starting in Fall 2022. Pathways is a one-credit class each semester for first-...
Continue ReadingInnovators Take the Stage
Like most woodwind players, first-year student Alexandra Valdovinos '25 goes through a lot of reeds each month. She loves the music she can create with the reeds – thin pieces of wood that vibrate when...
Continue ReadingWhittemore, Bready named Goldwater Scholars
Thomas Whittemore ’23 and Conor Bready ’24 have been named Goldwater Scholars, the preeminent honor for undergraduate students studying the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Whittemore, from Easley, South Carolina, is majoring in chemistry. He...
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