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Furman students serve as delegates to the U.N.
An intensive immersion into humanity’s most pressing and daunting problems has the potential to be demoralizing. For Furman senior McKenna Luzynski, however, last month’s UNA-USA Global Engagement Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New...
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 ReadingA quiet journey
Cherie Maiden, who has been a member of Furman’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures for more than 30 years, teaches African and French literature at the university and says her expertise is teaching black...
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 ReadingModern Languages professor Bost receives 2017 Jim Smart Award
Furman University Modern Languages professor and English department chair David Bost has been named winner of the James H. Smart Award by Furman’s Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection. Presented annually to a Furman faculty or...
Continue ReadingField Test
Opening in August this year, COPA Indoor Soccer is the only premium indoor soccer facility in the Greenville area. And it's the brainchild of Furman graduates Anthony Esquivel (2003) and his wife Olivia (de Castro)...
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 ReadingAn essential to understanding
As students enter the room, a Middle Eastern song popular in the ’90s is playing on YouTube and the teacher is writing on the board—from right to left. This is Furman’s first Arabic class, focusing...
Continue ReadingWelcoming top scholars with opportunities
Each year, The Duke Endowment funds scholarships for eight high-achieving scholars at Furman. Two recipients of the James B. Duke Scholarship are profiled on The Duke Endowment website: Furman senior McKenna Luzynski of Roanoke, Va.,...
Continue ReadingFurman celebrates beginning of school year with convocation
President Elizabeth Davis remarks Dean of Faculty Ken Peterson convocation address Furman University awarded the Richard Furman Baptist Heritage Award to alum Dr. Nancy Powers ’77 and introduced the five seniors who were named Furman...
Continue ReadingNew indoor soccer park more than a place to play
Furman alumni Anthony Esquivel (Class of 2003) and Olivia (de Castro) Esquivel (Class of 2006) have opened Copa Indoor Soccer near Berea, a community where 25 percent of the population is Hispanic/Latino. Anthony, a political...
Continue ReadingThree faculty awarded Furman Standard Research Grants
Three Furman professors have been selected to receive 2017-2018 Furman Standard Faculty Research Grants, the university recently announced. The Furman Standard is considered the top award for faculty scholarship at Furman. The grants are valued...
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