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High-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...
Continue ReadingFurman KA alumni seek to break ties with Robert E. Lee
The Kappa Alpha Order has for 100 years acknowledged Confederate general Robert E. Lee as its "spiritual founder." Eighty-four alumni of Furman's Iota Chapter have signed a letter aimed at severing ties with Lee, who...
Continue ReadingShields named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society
Furman Chemistry Professor George C. Shields has been selected as a member of the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. The ACS Fellows Program, created in 2008, is one component of the broader...
Continue ReadingChanges coming to your next issue of Furman magazine
It’s difficult to name one thing in our lives that has not been impacted by the global pandemic. And this fall, reading Furman magazine will be different, too. In place of a print magazine, you...
Continue ReadingI, too, am a Southerner!
In the wake of protests and conversations over Confederate monuments, Teresa Cosby, a Furman University politics and international affairs professor, pens a column for the Greensboro News & Record. A child during the time of...
Continue ReadingHe went from sixth grade to law school
Ben Saul '13 is passionate about education. Whether it's attending school, getting a bachelor's at Furman University, teaching school, or going back for more school - twice - first at Harvard, and now in his...
Continue ReadingFurman opts for phased approach for fall semester
One of the draws for incoming Furman students is small class sizes. Now with Furman's phased move-in, those class sizes, at least for now, will be even smaller. Classes begin Aug. 18 for all, but...
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