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[caption id="attachment_49233" align="alignright" width="315"] Doug Meyer-Cuno '85 is a ForbesBooks author.[/caption] Ever wonder if you're a micromanager? Doug Meyer-Cuno, a 1985 Furman University graduate, has a new book that helps diagnose the managerial malady and...

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Furman partners with United Community Bank, SCBIO on Women’s Leadership Institute

Furman University’s Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) will be presented virtually this year with two statewide community partners supporting the effort. United Community Bank will be the program’s presenting sponsor and SCBIO has signed on to...

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Taking inequities to heart

[caption id="attachment_49221" align="alignright" width="300"] Jason Williams '09, a pediatric cardiologist, is completing an advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging fellowship this year.[/caption] Many studies have shown that Black children in the United States born with congenital heart...

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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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