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Innovation Hour brings good ideas to life

Creative people find outlets for their gifts through paint and canvas, a camera lens, ink and paper, clay on a potter’s wheel, or maybe a well-worn stage. But where’s the conduit for a great idea,...

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Furman recognized as top performer in Sustainable Campus Index

Furman University has been recognized as a top performer in the 2020 Sustainable Campus Index, ranking No. 9 overall among baccalaureate institutions and moving up from last year’s No. 10 slot. A publication of the...

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Reagan Brittain ’22, Nick Curcio ’22 win Furman Metropolitan Fellowship

Reagan Brittain ’22 and Nick Curcio ’22 have been selected as recipients of the 2021 Furman Metropolitan Fellowship (FMF), a prestigious alumni-led grant program that provides two rising fourth-year Furman students with the connections, means...

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Mike ’72 and Sondra Hogan pledge gift of $500,000 to men’s golf

Mike Hogan ’72 and his wife, Sondra, have pledged an estate gift of $500,000 to the Furman men’s golf scholarship endowment, bringing the program closer to being fully funded. Hogan, who played from the 1969...

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New growth: Last major phase of tree replacement begins Nov. 30

Story update, Nov. 10, 2020: The sixth and final phase of replacing aging trees along the front of the Furman University campus will begin Nov. 30, 2020. Crews will remove the 50 to 60-year-old oaks...

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Here’s how Furman is developing into SoCon’s top program

Ahead of Furman Men's Basketball season opener against USC Upstate set for Nov. 28, The Greenville News reported that the Paladins have been picked to finish second in the Southern Conference according to a poll...

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South Carolina political scientists: ‘What’s next for American politics?’

In the wake of the 2020 general election, Ion Greenville poses questions to political scientists across the state of South Carolina: "Is there a political solution to the divide we are experiencing in the United...

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Alaskan Brewing owners named Citizens of the Year in Juneau

Brewmasters Marcy (Bradley) Larson '79 and Geoff Larson, co-founders of Alaskan Brewing Company, have been named Citizens of the Year by the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce. The couple established the brewery - the first...

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Furman Innovation, Entrepreneurship gains global recognition

Furman University’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been named an Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, a group of more than 250 universities. Other recipients of the award were...

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Georgia, North Carolina ‘epicenter of political moment’

As ballots continue to be counted in several states post election, Renee Wunderlich of WYFF News 4 caught up with Furman's Brent Nelsen, a professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at the...

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Qwameek Bethea ’21 presented with 2020-21 Rosa Bodkin Award

Qwameek Bethea ’21 began to suspect it wasn’t a normal day at the office when Furman President Elizabeth Davis, Vice President for Student Life Connie Carson and Chief Diversity Officer Michael Jennings just happened to...

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Greenville County has 1000% more Hispanic voters since 2000. But, they’re not yet a political force

Brittany Arsiniega is quoted in a Greenville News article about the rise in the Hispanic population in Greenville County and what that means for future elections. Arsiniega, a Furman University politics and international affairs professor, says...

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