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Food insecurity in Greenville County
Food insecurity nationwide reached 10.5% in 2019 - and that was before the pandemic. A joint effort among Furman University's Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, Furman's Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, and LiveWell...
Continue ReadingThe Christmas Star: Close encounters of the planetary kind
Physics Professor and Department Chair David Moffett knows exactly where he’ll be Monday, Dec. 21, around sunset – behind a telescope trained on the southwestern sky. That’s when he and countless others will observe something...
Continue ReadingEnvironmental historian Hayden Smith ’95 publishes first book
“Carolina’s Golden Fields: Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1860” (Cambridge 2020) is the first book written by Hayden Smith ’95, and it wouldn’t exist without dirt. It's possible the same could also...
Continue ReadingChallenging the NCAA: HBCUs say no more discrimination in academic rules
Monique Ositelu has spent a good deal of her professional time thinking about the inequities of the NCAA's system for measuring academic performance at traditional colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Ositelu, a...
Continue ReadingGiving Tuesday raised a record-breaking $353,552
The Furman community came together on December 1 to celebrate the university's eighth annual Giving Tuesday event. In total, 842 alumni, students, parents and friends gave a record-breaking $353,552 to more than a dozen funds...
Continue Reading‘Overlooked’: Black women are nearly absent from the federal bench
A commentary by Catherine Smith and Trina Jones in The National Law Journal draws upon remarks by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and passages from a book titled "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme...
Continue ReadingBetting on himself pays off for sports journalist Arch Bell ’98
Feb. 6, 2019, is a day Arch Bell ’98 will never forget. It's when the soccer journalist delivered a CLP at Furman that turned out to be far more popular than anticipated. Bell expected a handful...
Continue ReadingGeek out over Christmas films
The holiday season brings a full slate of must-see movies, among them, "A Christmas Story," "White Christmas," and "It's a Wonderful Life." The Upcountry History Museum - Furman University was featured in The New York...
Continue ReadingJulian Reed: The evolution of ActivEd
Julian Reed, a professor of health sciences at Furman University, says as a youngster, he got into trouble for moving and talking at school. So it's only fitting that decades later, he becomes the founder...
Continue ReadingCommunication studies research team wins Chair’s Award at national convention
Research by Furman Associate Professor of Communication Studies John A. McArthur ’02 and his student team of Cal Meachem ’20, Ryan DeLuca ’21, Jarya Outten ’21, Patrick Rice ’21 and Celena Taborn ’21 has been...
Continue ReadingWhitney Prowell ’08 named one of Columbia’s ‘Best and Brightest 35 and Under’
It wasn’t until she saw herself alongside other young professionals honored as one of Columbia Business Monthly magazine’s “Best and Brightest 35 and Under” in September that Whitney (Jones) Prowell ’08 realized she wouldn’t have...
Continue ReadingFirst mobile app connecting parents of children who have cancer launches
Tatum Fettig doesn’t expect and would never want you to understand what she and her husband, Jeff, have gone through since their daughter, Teagan, was diagnosed with brain cancer on Dec. 5, 2016 – the...
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