alumni-profiles

Furman Metropolitan Fellowship team names finalists

First-year growing pains behind them, the six alumni who created the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship are poised to financially and professionally assist another Furman junior who commits to a 2017 summer internship in New York City....

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Sustainability in action

For Jenni Asman ’11, a career in sustainability was far from her original intention. The current program manager for sustainability at Georgia State University started off as a neuroscience major at Furman University, but quickly...

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A new leaf

Graced with an Asia garden, a rose garden, a spring-fed lake, and hundreds of trees—including 55 labeled species—Furman University’s 750-acre campus is justly lauded for its beauty. Of all the flora on campus, though, it’s...

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Furman’s cycling team rides on

Furman's Cycling Team has been revamped and revitalized, both by the return of coach Rusty Miller and the addition of partial scholarship assistance to its riders. It also doesn't hurt that Greenville, which is home...

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Paul Caldwell tapped to lead America’s largest choruses

1986 Furman University music graduate Paul Caldwell has been named artistic director for the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus, whose combined membership numbers over 600 making them the largest community choruses in America,...

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Classroom creativity earns Freeman ’04 Milken Educator Award

Kimberly Freeman ’04 has opened the door for learners to discover an ancient language and culture through a blended curriculum that links to modern tools and learning goals. She has gotten Lexington Middle School students...

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New film by Chris and Emily White blends local and Hollywood names

Unconventional might be one word to describe Chris White’s and wife Emily Reach White’s filmmaking. Their latest film, “Unbecoming,” includes a goat herder and a retired United States senator with a deep, dark secret. An...

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Furman theatre alumna and students receive SETC honors

Haley Brown ’17, Maranda DeBusk ’13 and Taylor Jensen ’18 represented Furman University well at the recent Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) annual undergraduate and graduate student competition. Brown’s lighting design of Durang/Durang, presented at the...

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Saving baby Jordan

Nancy ’02 and Shelvis Smith-Mather ’02 were doing peace-building ministry work in South Sudan late last year when the couple’s first child was born seven weeks early. In a rural and conflict-filled area with no...

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Crossing Borders: Just Coffee, Just Wages

IF YOU STAND IN THE RIGHT PLACE in Agua Prieta, Sonora, you’ll have one foot in Mexico and the other in Arizona. And you’ll be standing on a major border crossing point for migrants. It’s...

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Giving voice

“Stand up and speak to increase the visibility of those who aren’t seen. But also know when it is your time to sit and lend the microphone to those whose experiences can be louder and...

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Breaking boundaries and bettering lives

Just three months after she graduated with a double major in political science and Spanish and a double minor in poverty studies and Latin American studies, Cassandra “Cassie” Chee ’15 arrived in Las Cruces, New...

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