Floyd makes conducting debut at Carnegie Hall

Joiner guest viola clinician

Buckley ’03 safeguards film and history at NGS

by Tina T. Underwood A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes.  And moving pictures add even more dimension to a story. Indeed, how would our view of history change if we...

Tocqueville Receives $500,000 Breakthrough Pledge: Ravenel ‘63 and Beth Curry Help to Secure Program’s Future

Furman’s Tocqueville Program housed within the department of political science, received a resounding boost thanks to the generosity of alumnus from the class of 1963 Ravenel Curry and his wife, Beth. The program sponsors a...

Acts of Altruism

Would you risk your life to save someone you barely knew? In a Wednesday CLP titled “Altruistic Behavior during the Holocaust,” Dr. Eva Fogelman, Ph.D invited students, faculty, and community members to reflect on the...

Emerge

Emerge, the Furman University Art Department’s senior exhibition, is more than forcing art majors to prove they can paint a picture before graduating. “Art has always been about ideas, so we try to have our...

FUPO facelift

By Ron Wagner ’93, Contributing Writer When Furman police chief Tom Saccenti turned Ross McClain’s Graphic Design II class loose on his force’s vehicle and shoulder patch/logo designs, he asked them to come up with...

Karen Buckley safeguards film and history at NGS

A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes.  And moving pictures add even more dimension to a story. Indeed, how would our view of history change if we had only still images...

Tropical Ecology in Costa Rica

Camera. Check. Rain Poncho. Check. Industrial strength mosquito repellent. Check. Anti-itch ointment. Check. High-powered flashlight for nighttime exploration. Check. Rice for sucking out moisture trapped in cell phone. Check. These are among the items you’ll...

Fortune and failure go hand in hand

Furman scholar-athlete Dr. Ginger Denison Rothrock ‘00 was only five years old when the Chemistry Department staged its first Corporate Luncheon. That was 1983 – the same year Michael Jackson’s Thriller shot to #1 and...

Transforming lives through art

The class project

When Jason Terrell ’12 began teaching English at James Martin middle school in Charlotte a few years ago he noticed something both interesting and disturbing—the diversity of the student body did not reflect the diversity...