sociology
Furman’s 10th Engaged! happens April 10
Furman University will hold its annual Furman Engaged! Day on Tuesday, April 10 at various locations on campus. Furman Engaged! celebrates the wide-ranging research, scholarship and creativity of Furman University undergraduates. The exhibits and performances...
Continue ReadingMeet the newest members of Phi Beta Kappa
Seventy-four Furman University students have been elected to the school’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society. The newest members were inducted during a special initiation ceremony on campus...
Continue ReadingHigh Noon spring series begins March 28
Kyle Longest, an associate professor of sociology at Furman University, will kick off the university’s High Noon spring lecture series Wednesday, March 28 with a talk about how young adults are navigating the age-old tensions...
Continue ReadingEmory University’s Melvin J. Konner delivers Townes Lecture March 20
Cultural anthropologist Melvin J. Konner of Emory University will deliver the Charles H. Townes Lecture on Faith and Reason Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in Shaw Hall of the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference...
Continue ReadingIn praise of faculty scholarship
Watch a video about the 2018 Faculty Scholarship Reception Faculty scholarship is happening all around Furman. Even on top of classroom requirements, advising, grading, serving on committees and attending meetings, professors from all disciplines are...
Continue ReadingUniversity announces 2017 fall term Dean’s List
Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the 2017 fall 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...
Continue ReadingThe Furman-Gallup and The Duke Endowment study
Furman University will partner with global analytics firm Gallup to study more deeply the impact of the university’s undergraduate experience and measure the effectiveness of its signature approach to education, The Furman Advantage, thanks to...
Continue ReadingAkwaaba! (Welcome!)
[caption id="attachment_34381" align="alignright" width="471"] Paige Flagge ’18, Ellie Erickson ’20, Janet Kwami, Yinglu Wang ’18, and Cynthia King try their hands at Adinkra stamping. The Adinkra cloth is a hand-printed fabric made by the Ashanti...
Continue ReadingThe road home
One Saturday in early July, when you were likely asleep, Arianna (McClain) Shirk ’02 was dancing joyously in AIC Kijabi Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit in Kijabi, Kenya. Calming the labored breathing of a 1-pound infant,...
Continue ReadingAn International Perspective on Education
One of the highlights of Sophia Denaro’s ’17 first trip to Europe was her visit to an elementary school. The unexpected treat came from a melodious chorus of children at Siltamaki Primary, a school in...
Continue ReadingEvicted
As Kenia Flores ’20 learned, timing is everything. During a recent visit to Gantt Summary Court as part of her Introduction to Sociology class (SOC 101), she listened as two cases played out between tenants...
Continue ReadingA life of miracles
Reflecting back on nearly a century of memories, Trude Heller describes her life as one “full of miracles.” She remembers the early years growing up as an only child in Vienna, Austria. She liked school....
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