undergraduate-research

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...

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Furman 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...

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Research 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...

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Professor, 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...

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Found 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...

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Furman 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...

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Beth 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...

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Chemistry 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...

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Furman 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...

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Chemistry 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...

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2019 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.

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Hart 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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