internships

Students represent the U.S. at APEC conference

Meeting international students, political, and corporate leaders and learning about a rapidly globalizing world are just some of the benefits four Furman University seniors received from their trip to the APEC conference in Beijing, China, this...

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Flight plan

One week after Crit Jones ’14  graduated Furman, he was hired by Duggan Associates Inc., a consulting company specializing in operational excellence. A  few months later, the business and accounting major from Argyle, Texas, was touching down in Malaysia...

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Laying a foundation for childhood success

The Institute for Child Success recently offered a snapshot of the well-being of South Carolina’s youngest citizens in a newly-released publication, the South Carolina Early Childhood Annual Data Report for 2014. Two Furman alumnae and...

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A special breed of student

For Rachel Moore ’16, her junior year at Furman has meant getting up early for walks and taking regular trips to the tennis courts for exercise. With long days of classes and activities on Tuesdays...

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The Washington Experience

[caption id="attachment_14779" align="alignright" width="300"] Stewart Atkins and Congressman Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader[/caption] For Carson Priest ’15, his summer as an intern in Washington, D.C., was anything but boring as he learned everything from how...

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Becoming a strong candidate for success

William Shelley ’14 wasn’t looking for just any internship last summer, which worked out well because Brad Crone wasn’t look for just any intern. “It’s a working internship. It’s not running the Xerox and going...

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Nurturing the heart and the mind

They called her Namatovu. When she first arrived in Uganda, Elisa Edmondson ’15 was called Madam Elisa. Within only a few weeks, her students renamed her "Namatovu" in honor of her compassionate and motherly ways....

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The best seat in the house

The task seemed simple. Create the perfect chair. But when you’re interning for a company that has designed chairs for Royal Albert Hall and other majestic performance venues around the world, the pressure is on....

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Invaluable Lessons

The best school days in Kathmandu always start with breakfast. As part of her volunteer assignment as a teacher’s assistant, Caroline Hawkins ’16 worked in the cafeteria, dishing up hearty servings of dal bhat, a...

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Gradual changes for lasting victories

Test tubes, Bunsen burners, petri dishes, centrifuges, microscopes, safety goggles . . . the stuff of labs for students immersed in summertime undergraduate research or internships in the sciences, right? Not always. Biology major Sonya...

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A golden opportunity

“Go west, young man” is a quaint idea associated with the outdated concept of manifest destiny, but the basic message was the same when Furman art history professor Marie Watkins spoke to Mary Elizabeth Morse...

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A welcome home

ATLANTA – As their arrival date neared, Christina Bellino ’15 hustled to get ready. Though she didn’t know their favorite foods, she went to Walmart, bought groceries, and filled their refrigerators. Though she didn’t know...

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