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Oct. 6, 1953 was a special day
In 1947, Furman University trustees were confronted with a downtown campus swollen by veterans’ enrollment, a physical plant with maintenance deferred since the Great Depression, and serious transportation issues in the mile that separated its...
Continue ReadingJazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos perform Oct. 20
The Furman University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos will present their fall concert Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on the Furman campus. Hosted by the Furman Department of Music during...
Continue ReadingPaladin football team has new friend
The Furman football team has established a very special friendship with a student from Berea Middle School. Sean Arnold, an eighth grader, suffers from Nephrotic Syndrome, a disease affecting his kidneys. WSPA-TV reported on how...
Continue ReadingLegislators to speak at WhatWorksSC award celebration Oct. 24
South Carolina Representatives Rita Allison (R-Spartanburg) and James Smith (D-Richland) will discuss public education in South Carolina as part of the seventh annual WhatWorksSC™ award luncheon to be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center...
Continue ReadingFall High Noon lecture series begins Oct. 11
Jim Leavell, Herring Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies at Furman University, will kick off the university’s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, October 11 when he gives a talk about the bombing of Pearl Harbor....
Continue ReadingHigh Noon Lecture Series fall schedule
High Noon at the Upcountry History Museum 2017 Fall Schedule All lectures begin at noon on Wednesdays and last one hour. For more information, contact Furman’s University Communications office at 864-294-3107 or [email protected]. ...
Continue ReadingFurman Symphony Orchestra presents “Russian Masterworks” Oct. 27
The Furman Symphony Orchestra (FSO) will present a concert Friday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. The Cultural Life Program performance, “Russian Masterworks,” is a Sound Quality Concert Series event and...
Continue ReadingLane Harris publishes “Translations of the Peking Gazette Online”
Furman History professor Lane Harris has released an 8,500-page electronic database, Translations of the Peking Gazette Online, through Brill as part of a digital humanities project. The database includes English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from...
Continue ReadingA summer to remember
[caption id="attachment_34490" align="alignright" width="282"] Sun Lee (left) and members of his cohort visited New York City in late August.[/caption] Earlier this year, Sun Lee, a health sciences major from South Korea, learned about the United...
Continue ReadingUnderstanding shooter’s motives may help prevent future violence
At last count, the death toll from Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas perpetrated by Stephen Paddock tops almost 60, and injuries from the violence number over 500. In an interview with a reporter at...
Continue ReadingGates: Race discussion must be deep, inclusive, fearless
Among the 600 who gathered to hear Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Furman's Younts Conference Center Sept. 18 was the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Leroy Chapman who wrote an opinion piece for the AJC about Gates' remarks. Chapman...
Continue ReadingFacing the big question in Reasons to Be Pretty
It’s a struggle to maintain fulfilling love relationships, friendships and jobs. Although some will not want to admit it, Courtney Dorn ’18 says actors and audience members may be able to find some of themselves...
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