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Vice President Mike Pence retains Furman alum as legal counsel

The Washington Post was the first to report that Pence had “hired outside legal counsel to help with both congressional committee inquiries and the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between President Trump’s campaign and...

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May X takes the field

Baseball’s the all-American game. But it’s also an intricate microcosm of economics, history and geography—just the thing for summer study. Two of Furman’s 2017 May X classes used baseball to explore broader academic themes: The...

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Entrepreneurship, philanthropy and success

Since graduating from Furman in 1977, David Trone has been on a mission. First, that mission took the form of entrepreneurship, then philanthropy, and, most recently, politics. Trone, who is a member of Furman’s Board of...

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Baez joins Furman as director of counseling center

Thomas Baez, who has served as director of counseling services at the University of Texas at San Antonio for the past 11 years, has joined Furman University as director of the counseling center. He began...

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Colleges get proactive in helping students

An article in The New York Times looks at how colleges and universities are increasingly focused on trying to understand what interventions work best for students who are “facing mental- and emotional-health troubles.” The article...

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Heading South to college

Four years ago, as a resident of Edina, Minn., Mark Lerner often found himself “explaining, even defending,” his son’s choice to attend college in the South. But four years later, Miles Lerner graduated from Furman...

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Don’t give up, but do lighten up

Frank O’Brien-Bernini, vice president and chief sustainability officer at Owens Corning, spoke recently to the graduates who received Furman’s Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate Sustainability. O’Brien-Bernini’s commencement speech included his "top nine" observations of successful...

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Helping the refugees

Whenever Furman English professor Melinda Menzer has a problem to solve, she likes to swim as she’s working on an answer. On June 4, she took an issue all the way to the Tennessee River,...

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Injustice, racism and honest talk

Last month, retired Furman English professor Bill Rogers served on the planning committee for the Shared Knowledge Conference 2017, "A Just Greenville." The theme of the conference was justice—for women, for immigrants, for people of...

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“A Concern of Some Kind” comes to Furman Playhouse in June and July

Greenville native Jeff Sumerel, a producer of some of the region’s most humorous and provocative films and plays, will bring his singular point of view to the Furman Theatre Playhouse this summer for a series...

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Bringing art to Travelers Rest

A local artist and a group of Furman students have transformed a gray brick wall on Travelers Rest's main drag into a colorful mural depicting life in the foothills town. The Greenville News reported on...

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University announces spring term Dean’s List

Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the 2017 spring term. The honor is awarded to full-time undergraduates who earn a grade point average of at least 3.4 during the university’s fall...

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