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Two awards, many partners for a healthier Greenville
Greenville has won two awards that aim to improve the health of its residents, and Furman University’s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) is one of the partners that will play a key...
Continue ReadingTransforming land for broader agroforestry benefits
Researchers at Furman University, through a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grant, studied the feasibility of transforming forested land on farms in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia into silvopasture systems. Silvopasture is a...
Continue ReadingFurman plays role in NSF grant to advance women in STEM
The statistics from the National Science Foundation are sobering: Women across all ethnicities fall well behind men in the number who hold full professorships in science, technology, engineering and math. To target the gender gap, the...
Continue ReadingSkylar Lambert ’19 wins undergraduate poster award at conference in Australia
Each of the first eight International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) conferences – including one in utero – Skylar Lambert ’19 attended with her mother, acclaimed neuroscientist Kelly Lambert, was special in its own way. But...
Continue ReadingStudents, biologist discover new clues to how cancer spreads
Most cancers become deadly when their cells break free from the initial tumor and infiltrate other organs or tissue, like a wildfire spreading from tree to tree, ultimately overwhelming a forest. If the fire can...
Continue ReadingFurman listed in 2020 Princeton Review’s ‘Best Colleges’ guide
Furman University has once again been selected for inclusion in the newest edition of The Princeton Review’s college guide, “The Best 385 Colleges.” Among the featured lists the publication cited as being especially important to...
Continue ReadingMeet your campus troubleshooter
Furman Professor of Biology Victoria Turgeon had already earned the trust of her fellow faculty members, so it was no surprise that she agreed to become the university’s faculty ombudsman four years ago. In a...
Continue ReadingMS-CEM Program welcomes new class
When Furman’s Master of Science in Community Engaged Medicine (MS-CEM) program welcomed its second class in June, very little had changed from the year before. Same 34-credit course mix of hard science and public health...
Continue ReadingHappiness, education and wilderness highlight 2019 MayX courses
Furman’s May Experience (“MayX”) is an optional three-week term following the spring semester, and the topics students explore in courses that are not offered during the academic year are limited only by the imagination of...
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 ReadingProfessors bring some peace to Furman with ‘Koru Mindfulness’ program
College can be tough, and Furman Professor of Biology Min-Ken Liao’s classroom on exam day is definitely not an exception. “I can smell the fear,” she said. "They are not doing well.” Liao takes no...
Continue ReadingUniversity announces 2019 spring term Dean’s List
Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the 2019 spring term. The honor is awarded to full-time undergraduates who earn a grade point average of at least 3.4 during the university’s fall...
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