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.

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...

Working to fill the empathy gap

Brittany Wright ’19 wanted to get experience doing research outside of Furman. Thanks to a grant from The Furman Advantage she was able to do just that at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School...

Maddie De Pree ’20 will talk about her summer in England at Furman Engaged!

Contrary to what her place on an internship panel at Furman Engaged! would lead you to believe, Maddie De Pree ’20 most definitely did not participate in an internship last summer at The Shakespeare Birthplace...

History in the making

As an undergraduate, Abigail Hartman ’17 wasn’t even allowed to apply for, much less participate in, the 2016 Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, an annual symposium where the world’s foremost experts on the early modern...

2018: The year in review

Investigación Pionera

Carlos Tobón arrived in the United States 1970, far from his home in Medellin, Colombia, to work in a textile mill, and work he did—so long and so hard that hearing about it decades later...

Olivia Corso ’20 presents research at Worldcon 76

While it’s not unusual to see Furman University undergraduates presenting research at academic conferences, what might be considered out of the ordinary is a student who is invited to sit on a panel with faculty...

On a roll: Karen Buchmueller and the National Science Foundation

If you’re looking for tips on how to write winning grant proposals, just ask Karen Buchmueller. In the space of a year, the Furman University associate professor of chemistry has served as principal or co-principal...

Leveling Up in the Game of Life

When you tell your professors the plan is to focus on video games now that you’re in college, an enthusiastic “how can we help” isn’t usually the response. That’s exactly the reaction Noelle Warner ’19...

Environmental Portrait

Pictures may be worth a thousand words sometimes, but the two shared equal billing for students conducting thesis research in Costa Rica this summer. Using photography and interviews, Celia Castellano ’19 and Sophia Pessagno ’19...

2018 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.