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Riley names Upstate DLI Fellows

The Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative (DLI) has selected its 21st Class of Fellows. The 45 incoming class members will join more than 1,500 Riley Fellows from across the state to participate in DLI. Says Don...

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Students celebrate MLK Day by serving the community

  A new community park will soon be opening in downtown Greenville, and Monday, 74 Furman students were there to help park organizers get ready. Despite below freezing temperatures in the morning, dozens of students...

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BOOSTing afterschool learning

More than 100,000 children in South Carolina are unsupervised between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m.—a huge chunk of time in which a great deal of learning and mentoring can take place. Melissa Huff...

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Dean’s List for 2015 fall term

Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the 2015 fall 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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Governor Haley, Mayor Riley sit down for candid discussion in Riley Institute video

On Jan. 12 in Columbia, Furman’s Riley Institute honored the memory of the late South Carolina Senator Clementa Pinckney, who was among the nine people killed this past June in the shootings at Mother Emanuel...

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Turgeon receives grant to study spinal cord injury

Furman biology professor Dr. Victoria Turgeon has been awarded a grant from the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund. With the two-year, nearly $80,000 grant, Turgeon will study factors which impede neuronal cell growth following...

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Charleston organist Ludlum retires

After 35 years as Organist and Director of Music at the historic St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C., W. Douglas Ludlum is stepping down. The 73-year-old stalwart graduated Furman in 1965, then went on...

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Furman releases Spring schedule

[caption id="attachment_14949" align="alignright" width="250"] Furman Coach John Roberts has a 170-62-1 career 15s record.[/caption] The Furman rugby team has put the final touches on its spring schedule. It includes home games against Cardinal Conference Champion...

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Setting sail to study one of Earth’s last coral wildernesses

Sam Hill ’16 didn’t see as many neighbors as he’d hoped during his 1,600-mile summer sailing trip. “From Hawaii to the equator, there was nothing but a turtle and a pod of whales,” said Hill,...

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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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Biology majors gain national recognition for T-cell research

The accolades keep coming for the Furman biology department’s ground-breaking research into the chemical processes behind T-cell activation. Early in the summer, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) sent a video team to campus to document...

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Shucker Fellows organize lecture series for retirees

  Because of the retirement community’s partnership with nearby Furman, residents of The Woodlands at Furman have access to many unique opportunities. There is no better example than a lecture series organized last fall by...

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