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New Dins in town for Summer Orientation
Incoming first-year students are getting familiar with their new school. More than 500 members of the class of 2025 divided into seven groups, each of which came to campus for one day to participate in...
Continue Reading‘No prisoner in this lonely room’
Elizabeth Collins '21 created a public humanities outreach program to bring poetry therapy to cancer patients in the Greenville community. The program, What a Word’s Worth, was offered through Furman and the Cancer Support Community...
Continue ReadingExcellence, mentoring and friendship – a tribute to the class of 2020 retiring faculty
John S. Armstrong carried an “advisor to the stars” business card. Carolyn Watson had a knack for getting more out of her students than they thought possible. And Charlie DeLancey was known to brag in...
Continue Reading2021 Senior Spotlight
Congratulations to the class of 2021! Meet a few of this year's graduating seniors in the 2021 Senior Spotlight. These students' diverse engaged learning experiences and plans for the future offer a snapshot of the...
Continue ReadingPresentations and perseverance pay off for winners of the Purple Shoes Gallery Walk
To win a pair of Furman purple Nikes, Abigail Smith ’22 first had to use some shoe leather of her own. But at the end of Furman Engaged last week, all of the steps paid...
Continue ReadingFurman Humanities Center sponsors ‘El Tiempo,’ one sculpture of the ‘Wings of the City’ collection
[caption id="attachment_49842" align="alignright" width="380"] Michele Speitz, associate professor of English literature and director of the Furman Humanities Center.[/caption] In conceptualizing and building the Furman Humanities Center, Director Michele Speitz and her board of directors have...
Continue ReadingSisters to share pre-med study away syllabus at Furman Engaged
[embed]https://vimeo.com/530909233/2b09f61196[/embed] One is ambitious, dedicated and adaptive, the other self-controlled, principled and idealistic. At least, that’s according to the Enneagram types the two have included on their resumes. Zooming with them, though, you get the...
Continue ReadingFurman receives second $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment
Furman University has received a $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment to expand and advance The Furman Advantage, the university’s transformational approach to offering every student a pathway toward a meaningful and valuable college...
Continue ReadingNIH study funds new way to measure link between racial inequity and preterm births
Scientists are trying to find new ways to measure the link between racial inequity and premature birth, says Furman public health researcher Shaniece Criss. A $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health could...
Continue ReadingFurman again named a Fulbright Program ‘top producer’
Like many students who major in political science, Brandon Tensley ’12 imagined he would proceed to law school after graduating from Furman. But as a senior who was also studying German, he applied for and...
Continue Reading3D model conveys course concepts to visually impaired student
Everyone agrees the doughnut is fundamental. But Fatima Quintana ’24 couldn’t see it, couldn’t make sense of the circular chart and the material written on and around it. So the Student Office for Accessibility Resources...
Continue ReadingJackson Pearce ’18 named 2021-2022 Luce Scholar
Jackson Pearce ’18, a third-year medical student at Medical University of South Carolina, has been named a 2021-2022 Luce Scholar. One of only 18 scholars selected from a pool of 164 candidates, Pearce will take...
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