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Chen excited about her golfing future

Alice Chen '18, a Furman University psychology graduate, is on course to continue a theme she has carried since her high school days in Somerset County, New Jersey. Having posted a 21st-place individual finish at...

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Uncovering Greenville’s public health issues

Most Furman students are new to Greenville and see it through the eyes of a college student living in the city. Last month 11 participants, including myself, were given a different perspective through the Current...

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News media usually show immigrants as dangerous criminals

Political science and government alumna Emily Farris '06 has written an article in The Washington Post about how immigrants are depicted in the news media. The article is an offshoot of a study she and...

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How important is your state to U.S. history?

This news release was written and provided to Furman by Washington University in St. Louis. As the United States celebrates its founding on July 4, new research on “collective narcissism” suggests many Americans have hugely...

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$50,000 in scholarships from Osher Foundation benefit adult reentry students

Furman University Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) has received a $50,000 grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation. The grant supports UES Osher Reentry Scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year, enabling nontraditional adult learners (NALs) to continue...

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Colleges replace plastic straws with paper

Before Furman's move to replace plastic straws with paper ones in 2017, the university was tearing through about 22,000 straws per month--a fraction of the 500 million straws used each day in America. University Business...

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Measuring the college experience

In a “Future U Podcast,” Brandon Busteed, executive director of Education & Workforce Development at Gallup, discusses what college graduates think about their higher education experiences. As part of his discussion with co-hosts Jeff Selingo...

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Menzer named to board of South Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Furman University English professor Melinda Menzer has been appointed to the board of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust was established by the South Carolina Legislature in...

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Furman installs epinephrine kits

"Twenty-five percent of people who suffer from life-threatening allergies don’t know it, and those who do often engage in risky behavior by not carrying their prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors," reports Cindy Landrum of the Greenville Journal....

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Walking the balance transfer tightrope

Jonathan Handy, an assistant professor of business and accounting at Furman, speaks with WalletHub about balance transfer credit cards and how to avoid the mistakes that can happen when using them.

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Is holding students back in third grade a good idea?

Furman Education Professor Paul Thomas is quoted in The Post and Courier in an article headlined “Up to 4,000 SC third-graders could be held back for failing reading test.”

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From the lab to the workplace

When it comes to giving students an opportunity to meet with the top executives in their field of study and learn more about what awaits them after graduation, nobody does it better than Furman’s chemistry...

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