Celebrating the New School Year

Approximately 1,200 faculty, staff, students and members of the Greenville community came together in McAlister Auditorium Thursday as Furman University officially celebrated the beginning of the 2016-17 school year with fall convocation. [caption id="attachment_26412" align="alignright"...

Discovering a Country Frozen in Time

A Summer in New Zealand

Furman student Erin Mellor is one of nine American students participating in a pilot exchange program this summer at Massey University in New Zealand. In addition to having an internship with Te Rakau Theatre and...

Anna Sugg Named One of Most Influential Women in Election Media

Anna Sugg ’12 remembers when she first got interested in politics. “When I was in fifth grade, our teacher gave us this assignment where she had a worksheet and we had to watch the Bush...

Painting by numbers

When Rowan Griscom ’17 and Allie Rockstroh ’18 first heard they’d be painting not one, but two, massive murals for public display, they were a little intimidated. “The wall (on Stone Avenue) was huge, the...

Reeder sets sights on U.S. Olympic Trials

Troy Reeder ’17 “didn’t want to go out there and lay an egg” at the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships earlier this month at the University of Oregon’s legendary Heyward Field. That would have...

Young Alum a Major Player in 2016 Election

Even though she graduated from Furman less than five years ago, it hasn’t taken Anna Sugg ’12 long to make her mark in the political world.  Sugg, who serves as Director of Television for the...

Furman Faculty Members Receive Promotions, Tenure

During its spring meeting Saturday, the Furman University Board of Trustees approved promotions and/or tenure for 14 faculty members and granted emeritus status to four professors who are retiring this summer. The trustees also recognized...

A Commencement for One

It wasn’t senior Valentina Romero’s intention to miss Furman’s Commencement on May 7, but it couldn’t be helped.  She was a thousand miles away in Bryan, Texas, where she was helping the women’s golf team...

Welcome to Phi Beta Kappa

GREENVILLE, S.C.—Sixty-one 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 and...

Furman student makes case for universal helmet law

The numbers are sobering. Furman University junior Simone Corpora cites statistics which report that South Carolina saw 950 highway fatalities in 2015. Of those, 132 were motorcycle drivers. And you might guess that the vast...

Lecture series earns PBK recognition

Furman's Francis W. Bonner American Scholar Lecture Series began in 2011 to highlight the ideals of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honorary society, and the centrality of liberal learning in the American experience....