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ZoomUni podcast offers constructive take on hot-button issues
It’s not unusual for Evan Myers ’21 and Brent Nelsen, professor of politics and international affairs, to discuss campus issues, and higher education more broadly. Today, the two host ZoomUni, a podcast that explores issues...
Continue ReadingPreventing college parties? Shame and blame don’t work
In an NPR interview with Elissa Nadworny, Furman University's Connie Carson, vice president for student life, said providing alternatives for "appropriate gathering" will go a long way toward getting students to comply with COVID-19 campus...
Continue ReadingMaster’s students apply community health lessons as campus contact tracers
Bernie Stanton doesn’t need a computer or even a piece of paper: The details of Furman’s plan to trace and isolate COVID-19 infections on campus are imprinted in his brain. “I’m living and breathing this...
Continue ReadingCuomo aide picked to run SUNY draws criticism, optimism
James Malatras, a member of New York Gov. Cuomo's inner circle, has been selected as the 14th chancellor of SUNY, a network of 64 campuses serving more than 415,000 students. The board's pick, which circumvented...
Continue Reading$1 million NSF grant focuses on increasing diversity in STEM fields
Daniela Mesa ’17 is working toward her Ph.D. at Purdue University. But that might not have come to pass without the support – financial, relational and academic – that she received at Furman. Mesa is...
Continue ReadingTeachers are asked to accept unfair nobility tax
Citing a Pew Center Research survey, Cynthia King notes that teaching ranks only second to military service on the spectrum of most noble contributions to society. In an opinion piece appearing in Jacksonville.com, King, Furman...
Continue Reading‘Voting in America’ StraightTalk Lecture Series begins Sept. 1
It wasn’t hard to predict that voting would be a topical subject to explore in an election year. With questions and uncertainty swirling as Nov. 3 approaches, however, topical will be an understatement when "Voting...
Continue ReadingFurman students selected for Millennium Fellowship
Fourteen Furman University students have been selected for the Millennium Fellowship, a program of the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network. Launched in 2018, the Millennium Fellowship convenes, challenges and celebrates student leadership...
Continue ReadingPearlie Harris, community leaders highlighted in Greenville mural
Her presence has seemed larger than life over the years, especially in her teaching role in Greenville County Schools during desegregation. Now, Pearlie Harris is literally larger than life as the centerpiece of a massive mural...
Continue ReadingPurple, gold lights shine on landmarks, honor women’s voting rights
As the nation celebrated the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, buildings and landmarks became beacons of purple, gold and white, the colors of the women's suffrage movement. The in the Aug....
Continue ReadingTwo worlds intertwine, opera singer and pharmacy tech
Jennifer Wiggins, a 2014 Furman University voice graduate, said she had her "arias ready to go" when COVID-19 lockdowns began. The two-season chorus member of Opera Carolina was set to audition for a year-long program...
Continue ReadingSen. Graham may be ‘in trouble’ with re-election in South Carolina
A FOX News article reports that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham may be in for his toughest re-election fight yet against well-funded Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison. Danielle Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs at...
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