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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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‘Law & Order: South Pacific’ for Furman alumnae and Mock Trial students in American Samoa

It was a life-or-death case. Jordan Ryder stood accused of pushing his daughter off a cliff during a hiking trip. When the trial started, nobody knew how it would end. Both sides came prepared to...

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New perspectives in STEM

Furman has been awarded a new $1 million S-STEM grant for 2020-25. Among other components, the award will provide renewable scholarships for 24 high-merit, high-need students seeking bachelor’s degrees in chemistry, biology, neuroscience or the...

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New Dins in town for Summer Orientation

Incoming first-year students are getting familiar with their new school. More than 500 members of the class of 2025 divided into seven groups, each of which came to campus for one day to participate in...

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Juneteenth is an opportunity to reflect

President Elizabeth Davis sent the message below to the campus community on Friday, June 18, 2021. Dear Campus Community, The first time I heard about Juneteenth I was a first-year student in college at Baylor...

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An educator champions ‘the link’

Mary Seawell Metz ’58 has served as a professor, president and trustee at colleges from one coast to another, affording her an appreciation of university life that few enjoy. Among the most critical operations, she...

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Should South Carolina cancel Critical Race Theory?

In an opinion piece for Statehouse Report, Paul L. Thomas unpacks misconceptions about Critical Race Theory and describes how banning the use of the framework in South Carolina schools could undo progress toward racially equitable...

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Alumna’s startup promotes sustainability with refillable containers

Michaela Barnett ’15 has a couple of good reasons for wearing a T-shirt to work. One reason is that the shirt displays the name of her startup company, KnoxFill, a zero-waste household products store. The...

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Women’s Leadership Institute celebrates this spring’s 58 graduates

On June 1, 2021, Furman’s latest class of the Women’s Leadership Institute celebrated its program graduation. The Women’s Leadership Institute is a leadership training program for both established and developing female leaders. Its curriculum is...

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‘No prisoner in this lonely room’

Elizabeth Collins '21 created a public humanities outreach program to bring poetry therapy to cancer patients in the Greenville community. The program, What a Word’s Worth, was offered through Furman and the Cancer Support Community...

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