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Hunter, former coach battles hunger in Palmetto State
When former Furman University assistant head football coach Tim Sorrells retired in 2017, he turned his attention to a group whose mission is to feed the chronically hungry in South Carolina. South Carolina Hunters for...
Continue ReadingGetting to know Emily Scott Robinson
Singer-songwriter, Emily Scott Robinson, a 2009 Furman University Spanish and history alumna, is featured in Yes! Weekly, a publication out of her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina. The story describes her cross-country journey collecting material...
Continue ReadingFirst-year teachers honored with teaching excellence award
Fourth-grade teachers Caroline Terry ’18 (M.A. ’20) and Ellie White ’19 (M.A. ’20) have been named recipients of the 2020 Childers Education Foundation Teaching Excellence Award from Furman University. Terry, a teacher at Monarch Elementary...
Continue ReadingPitch competition set for student entrepreneurs
The Furman Office for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will host its first annual Paladin Pitch Competition set for Saturday, Feb. 22, 9-11 a.m., in McAlister Auditorium on campus. Six student teams, armed with their venture pitches,...
Continue ReadingToday is Joseph Vaughn Day
On Jan. 4, 1965, newly elected President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his “Great Society” domestic agenda to end poverty and racial injustice. Two months later, on March 7, state troopers brutally beat civil rights activists...
Continue ReadingPaladin couple has attended more than 700 basketball games
When the Furman basketball team next takes to the court, David ’55 and Carol Mauldin ’58 will be in the stands – just like they’ve been for nearly every Paladin home game since the 1950s....
Continue ReadingGreenville residents tell stories of the Holocaust
The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust will mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau with its observance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 28. Preserving memories from that time, the council...
Continue ReadingPaladins lend a hand on MLK Day of Service
Scores of Furman students, faculty and staff lent a hand to non-profit agencies across Greenville on the MLK Day of Service 2020. After gathering in the Trone Center Monday morning, teams split up to provide...
Continue ReadingActivist Fania Davis offers message of healing and hope at community breakfast
Social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania E. Davis opened Friday’s community breakfast honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Sawubona, a traditional African greeting. “Translated from the Zulu,...
Continue ReadingReplanting mall’s natural charm
Angelia Davis of The Greenville News reports on the multi-year tree replanting project happening at Furman University. The latest phase has removed 40 of the nearly 70-year-old oaks lining Furman Mall from the PAC to...
Continue ReadingEnglish professor Joni Tevis awarded NEA Fellowship
Joni Tevis, the Bennette E. Geer Associate Professor of English at Furman University, has been awarded a 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA selected only 36 Fellows...
Continue ReadingSeven predictions for the new decade
The 2020s promise to bring changes across the world, from the way we learn to what we read and from what we eat to how we make a living. At the dawn of the new...
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