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WYFF News 4 covers LDOC

WYFF News 4 came to the Furman campus to cover Last Day of Class activities. They shot video of students hanging out in the library fountains and interviewed two students about the day. The story...

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Pathways course approved to guide students through The Furman Advantage

Furman University faculty have voted to make Pathways, a two-year program central to The Furman Advantage, a graduation requirement for all students starting in Fall 2022. The Pathways Program is a one-credit class each semester...

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8th Annual Dins Day is April 26

DINS DAY IS April 26, 2022! Please give to support Furman students and faculty. Furman University students, alumni, parents and friends will kick off the eighth annual Dins Day, a 24-hour celebration of Paladin pride...

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African students share cultures and invite understanding

“Africans Do Not All Look Alike.” So reads the poster for an event organized by Furman’s Afrikiya student organization. The pervasive ignorance that prompts the need for such a statement was just one of the...

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Funding local ventures + a new West End eatery

The everything Greenville platform, GVL Today, spotlights the city's first #StartupGVL event, which took place in recent weeks. Among the organizations hosting incubator events was The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the brains behind...

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Krista Just to be Furman ROTC’s first-ever woman U.S. Army infantry officer

Local media sources picked up the news about Furman University's first woman ROTC cadet to commission as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. Krista Just '22, a Furman biology major from Pickens, South Carolina,...

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Innovators Take the Stage

Like most woodwind players, first-year student Alexandra Valdovinos '25 goes through a lot of reeds each month. She loves the music she can create with the reeds  – thin pieces of wood that vibrate when...

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Just the first for women in Furman ROTC

Furman University Army ROTC cadets wake at zero dark thirty for hour-long physical fitness drills three times a week. They take a three-hour, hands-on tactical lab once a week, march six to 12 miles with...

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Furman makes it to the ‘Big Dance’ of mock trial competitions

After a police department lab technician was found dead of an apparent overdose, an officer on the force was charged in a scheme to skim off drugs. Erica Daly ’22 and her legal team spent...

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Student leaders ‘make Furman proud’

“It has been an absolute joy to watch these amazing young Furman student leaders flourish during their time at Furman,” said Kim Keefer, director of the Shucker Center for Leadership Development. Forty of those students,...

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Students shine at Furman Engaged 2022

The 14th annual Furman Engaged took us from the stage to the field and from the lab to the community – and countless other places – as 700 students presented and reflected on their engaged...

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Danielle Vinson comments on KBJ appointment to SCOTUS

The Statehouse Report interviewed Danielle Vinson, professor of politics and international affairs, for a story about the appointment of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Vinson said that...

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