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Furman Faculty Members Receive Promotions, Tenure
During its spring meeting Saturday, the Furman University Board of Trustees approved promotions and/or tenure for 14 faculty members and granted emeritus status to four professors who are retiring this summer. The trustees also recognized...
Continue ReadingWelcome to Phi Beta Kappa
GREENVILLE, S.C.—Sixty-one Furman University students have been elected to the school’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society. The newest members were inducted during a special initiation ceremony and...
Continue ReadingFreshman writing seminars lay the foundation for scholarship
Learning to write on a college level isn’t easy. Turns out, teaching students to write on a college level is no walk in the park either. Furman professors found this out in 2008 after the...
Continue ReadingSowing a passion for science
Furman biology professor Laura Thompson has inspired classrooms of students since she joined the university in 1987. Thompson was trained in plant physiology, but her focus today is ethnobotany, or the relationships between people and...
Continue ReadingNational Science Foundation awards Furman $600,000 grant to support scholarships
APRIL 3, 2012 by Erikah Haavie, Media Relations The National Science Foundation has awarded Furman a five-year, $600,000 grant to provide merit-based scholarships to students who demonstrate financial need and who are pursuing degrees in...
Continue ReadingFurman biology seminar moves beyond the microscope and out of the classroom
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 by Sara Morano, Contributing Writer Update from the editor: Photos from the September 29 race are posted here In most academic settings, students study the impact of cancer underneath a microscope or...
Continue ReadingFurman graduate Valerie Horsley receives major honor for work in genetics research
September 14, 2012 by Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations Valerie Horsley, a stem cell researcher at Yale University and a 1998 Furman graduate, is on an award-winning roll. She is one of...
Continue ReadingFaculty playing larger role in student recruiting
Furman faculty play an integral role in student recruiting. They make telephone calls, attend out-of-town receptions and even invite prospective students and parents into their classrooms. This kind of personal attention makes Furman distinctive and...
Continue ReadingTurgeon receives grant to study spinal cord injury
Furman biology professor Dr. Victoria Turgeon has been awarded a grant from the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund. With the two-year, nearly $80,000 grant, Turgeon will study factors which impede neuronal cell growth following...
Continue ReadingBiology majors gain national recognition for T-cell research
The accolades keep coming for the Furman biology department’s ground-breaking research into the chemical processes behind T-cell activation. Early in the summer, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) sent a video team to campus to document...
Continue ReadingLife through the lens of Army photojournalist Mike MacLeod
“When you’re a writer, life’s a smorgasbord,” says Mike MacLeod ’89. From tracking grey wolves in Montana, to starting his own magazine, to serving the United States Army, to writing a memoir about his time in the Middle...
Continue ReadingFaculty, staff receive grants from ACS
Nine Furman faculty and staff members have received grants from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), an organization serving 16 nationally ranked liberal arts institutions. ACS Faculty Development Grants are funded by the Mellon Foundation...
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