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COVID-19 impact adds hurdles to economic growth
Furman University's Kailash Khandke, an economics professor, has written an opinion piece in Greenville Business Magazine. In it, he draws comparisons of our COVID-19 times to the Great Depression and the Great Recession and makes...
Continue ReadingMayor White: COVID-19, police accountability slow Confederate monument plans
Three years after expressing support for supplemental signage that would provide historical context for the Confederate monument in Springwood Cemetery, Greenville Mayor Knox White says different city council priorities have taken the front burner. As...
Continue ReadingCommunity steps up to help Bridges to a Brighter Future component go virtual
Missing loved ones has been one of the most difficult feelings to experience during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and Carrie Silver is no exception. Well, technically there is one exception: Few people have so many...
Continue ReadingFurman named a 2019 Tree Campus USA
Furman University has been named a 2019 Tree Campus USA. Tree Campus USA, a national program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation, honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees...
Continue ReadingLimitations to ‘coming out’ as a social justice strategy
Furman University's Scott Henderson, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Education and faculty sponsor of the Furman Pride Alliance, recently published “The Political Is Personal: Limitations to Coming Out as a Social Justice Strategy”...
Continue ReadingSpeaking for the oceans
Richard Hyman’s affinity for the ocean can be traced to the 1970s, when he had opportunities to work with famed French explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau. Today, through his nonprofit organization Future Frogmen, Hyman ’77...
Continue ReadingHigh-tech farming: Drone research supports organic efforts at local farm
A drone may not be the first piece of equipment you’d associate with organic farming. But a new Furman research project demonstrates that cutting-edge technology has its place on the pasture. Andrew Freeland ’21 is...
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 and the gig economy: Three opera stars press onward
Soprano Alicia Russell was set to debut at Chicago’s Lyric Opera in “Blue,” a timely modern work about police brutality, when everything changed for her and other artists. COVID-19 has scrubbed performing arts calendars for...
Continue ReadingA community conversation with Don Gordon
Don Gordon, executive director of the Riley Institute at Furman University, has a virtual community conversation with Jane Robelot of WYFF News 4. Gordon says the pandemic has further distanced people from one another and...
Continue ReadingDoing the math: COVID-19 and social inequity
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Faced with the disruption that is COVID-19, professors everywhere have put their virtual heads together to craft ways to tackle new topics and learning environments. And thanks...
Continue ReadingFlexibility and power of community, keys to making right choice for students
M. Carmela Epright, a philosophy professor at Furman University, and Michael Seemuller, medical director for AnMed Health Wren Family Medicine, have written an opinion piece in The Post & Courier about reopening schools amid the...
Continue ReadingUSGS, partners track and remove Burmese pythons
Where there are male pythons, females are not far away. That's the idea for an initiative to track and remove invasive Burmese pythons that are wreaking havoc on South Florida's ecosystems and endangered species. Male...
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