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Taylor Griffin ’22 awarded prestigious Army internship
Taylor Griffin ’22 may be an incredibly driven rising star in the Army’s Reserve Officer Training Program (ROTC) at Furman, but she’s also only human. “I’ve become a night owl. It’s hard to wake up...
Continue ReadingSeniors took art show ‘Beyond These Walls’
Furman art students were getting ready for the culmination of their college experience: the senior art show. They would learn to create a gallery installation, share it with family and friends and maybe sell some...
Continue ReadingHaving coronavirus nightmares? Here’s what you can do
In an article appearing in The Washington Post, Erin Wamsley, associate professor of psychology at Furman University, explains why our dreams might be more vivid and memorable during the time of COVID-19. She says we...
Continue ReadingZoom into learning with OLLI at Furman
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University has announced its slate of summer classes. Conducted for the first time ever via Zoom, the four-week sessions run June 2-26. Registration is available online or by...
Continue ReadingAhmaud Arbery and the resilience of black protest
Amid a sea of protests supporting or denouncing the reopening of businesses shuttered due to COVID-19, protests of a different kind erupted in Brunswick, Georgia, and beyond. Masked protesters gathered to decry the murder of...
Continue ReadingFurman Implements Furloughs, Discontinues Baseball and Men’s Lacrosse
In an effort to address the unprecedented financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Furman University on Monday announced that it would cut the salaries of the president and senior administrators, implement furloughs and budget reductions...
Continue ReadingSix graduates awarded Fulbright grants
Six members of Furman University's class of 2020 have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. This is the most Fulbright recipients Furman...
Continue ReadingAhmaud Arbery holds us accountable
As a graduate student and before he enrolled in law school, 1994 Furman University alumnus Jim Barger, Jr. spent nearly two years in the briny marshlands of coastal Georgia where he studied and documented African...
Continue ReadingFurman athletics embraces the new virtual normal
With the fields closed, stadiums locked and games cancelled because of the novel COVID-19 pandemic, the Furman Athletics Department faced two choices: Hunker down and wait for things to go back to normal, or redefine...
Continue ReadingAlicia Key ’21 tapped her programming skills to research a language ‘ancestor’
After she graduates from Furman, Alicia Key ’21 hopes to either program video games or develop an app that helps users learn a foreign language. If she chooses the latter, a research project she did...
Continue ReadingInterfaith Scholar program teaches students to be leaders
The Rev. Kate Taber, associate chaplain for Furman, is working to expand students’ opportunities to explore and discuss spiritual differences. “I really want to create a campus that has students with these life experiences and...
Continue ReadingWorking at the medical front
In April, Ben Daxon ’05 had jumped fully into the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, where life had been upended, when he wrote a hopeful post on his Facebook page: “Day...
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