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Furman receives community impact award from USGBC Carolinas
Furman University has received a Sustainable Business Award from the U.S. Green Building Council Carolinas. The announcement was made Dec. 5 during the USGBC Carolinas: Green Gala & Sustainable Business Awards, which was held at...
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 ReadingResearch shows baseball shifts need to happen more, and be more radical
Unlike many baseball fans, Furman math majors Andrew Hartley ’20 and Ella Morton ’20 don’t have a problem with the rise of the shift. What they do have a problem with is teams like the...
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 ReadingFound in Translation: Professor and alumna translate Spanish poems into English
On the surface, the objective world of math and the subjective world of poetry appear to be opposites, but not for programmer Maria Bartlett ’18, who set out with her mentor in Spanish, Furman Professor...
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 ReadingBeth Fraser ’20 presents research at top professional conferences
Furman University rising senior Beth Fraser of Shelby, North Carolina, has won the respect only few undergraduate-level researchers receive in the world of literature and Romanticism. This summer she presented her research at the Association...
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 ReadingFurman students have law school edge
With the goal of earning a Juris Doctorate, law school hopefuls at Furman have every reason to be optimistic about their chances of excelling on the LSAT and matriculating to their chosen institutions. The law...
Continue ReadingChemistry Professor Mary Elizabeth Anderson receives NSF grant
Furman Associate Professor of Chemistry Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Anderson has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant to support her work in materials science. [caption id="attachment_39105" align="alignright" width="303"] Mary Elizabeth...
Continue Reading2019 Senior Spotlight
Our Senior Spotlights illuminate - from the lab to the links, the classroom to the stage, study away to activism - the unique journeys that lead to graduation.
Continue ReadingHart Zwingelberg ’15 headlines Carolinas Sports Analytics Meeting at Furman
When Hart Zwingelberg ’15 was a midfielder on the Furman men’s soccer team, he dreamed of the day he’d be in the MLS. Last year, that dream came true – though not quite how he...
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