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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...
Continue ReadingEmma 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,...
Continue ReadingPaper 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...
Continue ReadingFood 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...
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