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More than 200 public US colleges are requiring COVID vaccines. In SC, that’s illegal.

Wofford College and Furman University are the only colleges in South Carolina mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for students enrolling for fall classes. For state-supported institutions, there is no such requirement despite the American College Health Association's...

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Why this former Kingsford analyst is launching an activist short fund

Known for calling out American Addiction Centers for widespread negligence, Chris Drose, a 2016 Furman University alumnus, is in the news again. The English major and former analyst at short-biased hedge fund Kingsford Capital is...

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Eleanor Beardsley, reporting from Paris

Before she landed at NPR as an international correspondent, Eleanor Beardsley, a 1986 Furman University alumna, threw herself into myriad experiences to make a living and home in on her eventual career. Each occupation proved...

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Summer research reaches new height

For more stories about student research, click here. Students and faculty have been doing summer research together at Furman since at least 1966, but the numbers have grown steadily in recent years. In 2016, there...

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Spring 2021 Dean’s List

Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the spring 2021 semester. The honor is awarded to full-time undergraduates who earn a grade point average of at least 3.4 during the semester. The...

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2021’s most & least independent states

In a piece paying homage to Independence Day, Adam McCann, a financial writer for WalletHub, explores the ways Americans are self-reliant and which states are most and least independent. McCann taps a panel of experts...

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Students study race, COVID-19 in tweets

For more stories about student research, click here. For their Research and Evaluation in Health Sciences class in the fall of 2020, Samantha Norton ’23 and Imaya Virani ’22 wanted to know if they could...

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Students study how to prevent injuries in high school athletes

To read about more student research, click here. The first step to preventing injuries in a given population, say among high school athletes, is to understand the injuries. A team of researchers at Furman University...

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Furman names Herrera chief innovation officer

Furman University has taken another step to deeply engage its students and the greater Greenville community in innovation and entrepreneurship by naming Anthony Herrera the university’s first chief innovation officer, effective July 1. In his...

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Audubon South Carolina says conservation is for the birds

One of the perks of calling Furman University home is its proximity to abundant state parks such as Paris Mountain, Jones Gap, Table Rock and Caesars Head - all only minutes away. Caesars Head boasts...

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Alumnus pens essay for The New York Times

Brian Highsmith '10, a senior researcher at Yale Law School's Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and a tax policy advisor on President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, authored a guest essay in The...

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Class of 2021 NextGens

ETFs, hedge funds, alts, CPI, PCE, PPI, BCOM, WTI, IEA - these terms might be confusing to some, but not for Rob Kenney, senior investment officer at Furman University. Kenney, who joined Furman in 2012,...

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