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Furman Fellows Announce 2020 Award Recipients

The Furman Fellowship is an endowed scholarship fund founded in 2004 with a gift from Furman trustee emeritus Bob Buckman and Joyce Mollerup. Each year, five seniors are recognized as Furman Fellows and receive a scholarship...

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Getting the COVID vaccine is the most people-loving thing we can do

As the COVID vaccine begins rolling out across the United States, Cathy Stevens, director of the White-Riley-Peterson Afterschool Policy Fellowship at The Riley Institute, implores Americans to consider getting the vaccine for the sake of...

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Martin Rooney ’93 dives into fiction with his 11th book

Despite authoring 10 books on his way to becoming an internationally known athletic coach and professional speaker, Martin Rooney ’93 wouldn’t have described himself as a writer. That changed after book No. 11, “Coach to...

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7 things that could reduce health disparities for Blacks, Latinos hit hardest by pandemic

Shaniece Criss, an assistant professor of health sciences at Furman University, a Prisma Health board member and a Travelers Rest city councilwoman, was quoted in an article appearing in The Greenville News about COVID-19 and...

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Duke, Strobel named to All-SoCon Faculty and Staff Team

Associate Athletics Director of Facilities and Game Operations Todd Duke, and Marian Strobel, the William Montgomery Burnett Professor in History, have been named to the All-Southern Conference (SoCon) Faculty and Staff Team. Duke and Strobel...

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2020: The Year in Review

Amid the challenges, 2020 also brought us countless moments of joy, discovery and community – from learning and gathering virtually to getting out the vote to giving back. While students realized The Furman Advantage in...

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Furman I&E joins City, NEXT in downtown space

In a press conference Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, Furman University President Elizabeth Davis announced that the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) will join the city of Greenville’s economic development team in locating offices in...

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Emma Jones ’20 helped her community acknowledge its painful history

Emma Jones ’20 knew she came from a place steeped in history. But she didn’t know pieces of that history had been left out. “There’s a lot of memorials there,” Jones says of Walker County,...

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Paper leads to research partnership for biology professor Pamela Hanson

Mark Bazett, director of preclinical development at Bold Therapeutics, didn’t have a problem when he learned that Furman Professor of Biology Pamela Hanson intended to use undergraduates to help with research on his company’s anti-cancer...

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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...

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The 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...

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Environmental 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...

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