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Mill Village Farms grows healthy food, opportunities and hope

Several initiatives led by Furman University alum Dan Weidenbenner's Mill Community Ministries aim to lessen food insecurity, impart job and entrepreneurship skills and instill hope for the citizens of Greenville County. Weidenbenner, a 2011 psychology...

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FYD: For Your DINformation

A special FDOC edition of DINformation to kick-off the spring semester! Welcome back and good luck as classes get started this week! BORED Games Bored and looking for something to do this week? FUSAB and...

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Studying the health implications of racist tweets

Can the way people talk about race online impact health? Furman’s Shaniece Criss wants to know. An assistant professor of health sciences, Criss is part of a national research collaborative, called Big Data for Health...

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Alumna stands in for Kamala Harris during inauguration rehearsal

Furman University music alumna TSgt. Stacey Holliday '04 created quite a buzz on Monday, Jan. 18, during Inauguration Day rehearsal, which coincided with the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. A member of the Singing Sergeants,...

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‘I had a purpose for being there’

The secret treat was sometimes grits, sometimes salmon croquettes. [caption id="attachment_48729" align="alignright" width="300"] Rawn Harbor '71.[/caption] Whatever the special offering, the Black dining hall employees who gave it to Rawn Harbor ’71 did so with...

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One land’s work at healing can help U.S.

John Harris, a Furman University mathematics professor, proffers a mathematical approach for solving problems of social and political unrest in the U.S. in an opinion piece he wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Following the rioting...

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TSgt. Stacey Holliday scores vice-presidential gig

If Stacey Holliday '04, a member of Singing Sergeants, told you she’d be taking part in Inauguration Day 2021, you might assume the alto would be performing as part of the United States Air Force...

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Doing the hard work of keeping our republic

Spurred by the events at the nation's Capitol on Jan. 6, faculty in Furman University's Department of Politics and International Affairs write an op-ed in The Greenville News about how to maintain the republic that...

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Joseph Vaughn Day public event postponed

Due to the high rates of COVID-19 in the Greenville and Upstate areas, a public celebration of Joseph Vaughn on Jan. 29 has been postponed. Michael Jennings, Ph.D., chief diversity officer for Furman, and Chandra...

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Americans should rethink overthrowing other peoples’ governments

In his second opinion piece appearing in Informed Comment in recent days, Furman University's Akan Malici, a politics and international affairs professor, says Americans - Democrats and Republicans alike - have received an awakening of...

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Class of 2020 Millennium Fellows graduate

Fourteen Furman University students have graduated in the 2020 class of the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long program of the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network. The program convenes, challenges and celebrates student...

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Furman’s 2021 MLK Celebration – Opportunities for Reflection

Reflection is a tool that can help you become more self-aware and apprised of issues that impact our community. For the week of January 18 – 22, there are multiple ways that you can reflect...

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