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Furman students serve as delegates to the U.N.

An intensive immersion into humanity’s most pressing and daunting problems has the potential to be demoralizing. For Furman senior McKenna Luzynski, however, last month’s UNA-USA Global Engagement Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New...

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Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farminary” director speaks March 20

Rev. Nathan Stucky, director of the Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, will speak at Furman University’s Charles E. Daniel Memorial Chapel Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. His CLP talk, “God and the Dirt:...

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Emory University’s Melvin J. Konner delivers Townes Lecture March 20

Cultural anthropologist Melvin J. Konner of Emory University will  deliver the Charles H. Townes Lecture on Faith and Reason Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in Shaw Hall of the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference...

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Acclaimed pianist Norman Krieger in concert March 22

Furman University will host Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Professor (piano) Norman Krieger Thursday, March 22 at 8 p.m.in Daniel Recital Hall. Krieger is Furman’s Distinguished Visiting Professor in Piano. His performance is free...

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Jefferson Awards Foundation announces 2018 Class of ChangeMakers

The goal of the Jefferson Awards Foundation in South Carolina is to cultivate the next generation of the state’s servant leaders. With that in mind, the organization has selected its first class of ChangeMakers—10 individuals...

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Woman’s work wear upstart gets ready to pop

With influencers like Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and Brooklyn Decker who sport Argent work attire, the company co-founded by Sali (Sumer) Christeson (Class of 2007)  and Eleanor Turner is well on its way to charting new territory....

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Furman hosts two Big Ten opponents this weekend at Flour Field

Winners of five of its last six games, Furman's baseball team will make its first appearance at Greenville's Fluor Field this season when it takes on a pair of Big Ten Conference opponents this weekend...

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Fort Mill High senior organizes event to empower women leaders

[caption id="attachment_35775" align="alignright" width="400"] Fort Mill High School senior Erica Daly participated in the Riley Institute's Emerging Public Leaders program over the summer.[/caption] Fort Mill High School senior Erica Daly is working toward closing the...

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Manuscript Club students bound for Mexico City

Students in the Furman Manuscript Club have submitted an abstract, which has been accepted for the 2018 Digital Humanities Conference to be held in Mexico City this June. Using a double-blind peer review process, reviewers...

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Foresee and forget: how to remember the future

An article appearing in Scientific American draws on research by Furman psychology professor Gil Einstein and Mark McDaniel of Washington University (Saint Louis). The article unpacks the difference between retrospective memory and prospective memory, the latter...

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Professor Liz Smith weighs in on best and worst states for women

Politics and International Affairs professor Liz Smith contributes to an article appearing in USA Today about the best and worst states for women. She and other experts answer questions about the #metoo movement, factors to...

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Brutal and bountiful: Poet’s ‘Lindy Lee’ recalls Upstate’s textile history

[caption id="attachment_35754" align="alignright" width="337"] Kimberly J Simms is a 2002 Furman graduate.[/caption] Furman English graduate (Class of 2002) and poet Kimberly Simms answers questions posed by Paul Hyde of The Greenville News about her collection, Lindy...

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