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Jackson Pearce ’18 named 2021-2022 Luce Scholar

Jackson Pearce ’18, a third-year medical student at Medical University of South Carolina, has been named a 2021-2022 Luce Scholar. One of only 18 scholars selected from a pool of 164 candidates, Pearce will take...

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Nikki Haley breaks with Donald Trump: ‘We need to acknowledge he let us down’

Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has publicly decried former President Donald Trump, saying, “The person that I worked with is not the person that I have watched...

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A gift to remember

[caption id="attachment_49154" align="alignright" width="305"] Deb, Sam, Kate (Sam's sister) and David Spear in Saint Martin, the location of Kate's 2013 wedding to Jean-Louis Delayen (not pictured).[/caption] Sam E. Spear ’09 grew up in the ’90s...

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DeCesaris joins NASA from Missile Defense Agency

Paula Khoe DeCesaris has been appointed deputy director of the Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Department in the Engineering Directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (a.k.a. Rocket City). The 1996 Furman University physics...

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Still Running: Professors’ book enters third edition with updated workouts for speed, safety

It’s one thing to tie your shoes and hit the pavement; it’s another to do it with science behind you. “Run Less, Run Faster,” puts the shoes and the science together. The third edition of...

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‘I Belong Here’ at the top of gospel music charts

He’s recorded with music royalty like Quincy Jones, been to the Grammy Awards, and even played at the famed Apollo Theater in New York. [caption id="attachment_49170" align="alignright" width="265"] The gospel song "I Belong Here" has...

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Black History Month: Head Coach Jackie Carson

As part of FOX Carolina's tribute to Black History Month, Jackie Smith Carson '00, Women's Basketball standout and Furman's first Black female head coach, takes the spotlight. In an online interview with news anchor Victoria...

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5 cool measurement tools for quantifying regenerative agriculture

How are bird populations and sustainable agriculture related? Furman University's John Quinn, a biology professor, is working with General Mills to categorize and identify individual birds in thousands of hours of recordings captured by field...

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Jim Smart Award spotlights excellence in vocational reflection, exploration

Fostering vocational exploration and reflection among students at a university might appear to be a fairly obvious and expected role of educators and mentors alike. But what if that gift of investing in students’ futures...

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Furman scores No. 5 position in CPA exam pass rates for midsize programs

In a rating method that looks at how well students progress toward completing all four parts of the Certified Public Accountant exam, Furman University comes in at No. 5 among mid-sized university accounting programs across...

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A special delivery on Valentine’s Day

COVID-19 may have derailed this year's traditional Valentine’s Day Dance for Exceptional Adults hosted annually by Furman’s Heller Service Corps, but it didn’t stop student members of the service organization from showing kindness to the...

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Furman students surprise special needs adults with bags full of love

[caption id="attachment_49075" align="alignright" width="400"] Student members of the Heller Service Corps stuff goodie bags for members of the special adult community.[/caption] For the last 15 years, Heller Service Corps at Furman University has hosted its...

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