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Freeman Foundation Funds Internships in Asia
A $96,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation of Stowe, Vt., has been awarded to Furman University to enable 16 Furman students to experience internships in East and Southeast Asia during the summer of 2017. The...
Continue ReadingDown on the Farm
Sometimes, extra-curricular activities in college dictate one’s career path even before coursework does. That was the case for Joy Owens ’14, the director of the Historic Johnson Farm in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Thinking she might...
Continue Reading50 Most Influential
Time magazine has its "Person of the Year." Not to be outdone, Greenville Business Magazine annually publishes its "50 Most Influential." Making the list this year is Furman University President Dr. Elizabeth Davis who is noted for...
Continue ReadingGHS and Furman: Academic Partners
In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Greenville Health System (GHS) president Dr. Spence Taylor writes about the organization’s efforts to create stronger, healthier communities and serve as an academic health center. Furman is one...
Continue ReadingA family with a passion for teaching
Surprises are always sweeter when shared with family. So when two Furman alumni were recently added to Greenville County’s teaching honor roll, their schools’ principals (who are also brother and sister) were able to make...
Continue ReadingFaculty, students, and alumni present research at NCTE conference
Three Education Department faculty, two students, and eight alumni presented research as part of the annual National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference November 17-20 in Atlanta, attended by 6,000 dynamic literacy educators, authors...
Continue ReadingFormer Furman President David Shi, Angela Halfacre Shi Make $500,000 Gift to University
Former Furman University President David E. Shi and his wife, Angela Halfacre Shi, have made a $500,000 gift to the university that will provide additional financial support for students who are actively involved in the...
Continue ReadingCrystal Brockington awarded the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship
Crystal Brockington ’18 has big dreams for a career built on the spoken word, but her polished oratory skills went silent when she found out she’d been selected to receive the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship (FMF)....
Continue ReadingAn Enterprise Built with Bread
Markey Culver ’08 doesn’t tell the story you expect. “I had zero interest in going to Africa,” Culver said. But she did go. And within a few years of setting foot on the continent, she...
Continue ReadingFurman Students Sing on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth
A Broadway debut as a college student is what dreams are made of, but 16 Furman Singers got the chance to perform with Kristin Chenoweth Nov. 12 in her one-woman show, My Love Letter to...
Continue ReadingA legacy of HOPE
Steve Grant ’80 doesn’t shy away from telling the story, and you know the ending before it starts. Still, when he’s finished no response seems possible. “My first son died in 2005 in October, which...
Continue ReadingFurman Offers Haunting Staging of ‘Lockerbie’
Neil Shurley, contributor for The Greenville News, reviews Furman's staging of Deborah Brevoort's The Women of Lockerbie, a play based on the terrorist downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town in 1988 killing all...
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