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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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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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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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What’s Going On with the Trees on Campus?

As the Furman community returns to campus for the spring semester, people will notice that many of the large trees around the James B. Duke Library have been removed and replaced with younger, smaller trees. ...

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Riley Institute’s Riley and Gordon earn high marks

Dick Riley and Don Gordon of the Riley Institute at Furman have been named among the Top Ten SC Leaders in 2015 by Alan Cooper, Publisher of MidlandsBiz. The two achieved the distinction for the...

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Riley Institute honors late Senator Clementa Pinckney, Mayor Joe Riley, Governor Nikki Haley

Furman’s Riley Institute has announced that the late South Carolina Senator Clementa Pinckney, along with Governor Nikki Haley and Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, are this year’s recipients of the David H. Wilkins Awards for Excellence. The...

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Shi Center develops online learning module

In keeping with its mission “to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching in support of sustainability on campus and in the greater community,” the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University has launched a...

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Furman named top performer in Sustainable Campus Index

Furman University has been recognized as a sustainability leader in the 2015 Sustainable Campus Index, a publication of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The 2015 Sustainable Campus Index highlights top-performing...

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Aloha ‘Aina: for the love of the land

Lush tropical greenery, beautiful beaches and waterfalls, spectacular sunsets. While she spent part of her summer sailing through Hawaii, Kelsey Orr ’17 wasn’t on a leisure trip. Her 12-hour days as a student and rookie...

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Shi Center fellows make trek to conferences

Whether it’s semester-long study away, shorter-term May experiences, internships, or presenting research at academic conferences both in the United States and abroad, Furman students have abundant opportunities for engaged learning outside the classroom. Last spring,...

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Oregon State University’s Goodrich gives poetry reading

Charles Goodrich of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University will give a poetry reading Monday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m., in Johns Hall 101 on campus. The CLP event is free...

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Furman featured in “Campus Wild” guide

Furman University is among 85 colleges and universities featured in a new publication released by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), The Campus Wild: How College and University Green Landscapes Provide Havens for Wildlife and “Lands-on”...

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