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Bibb presents Bonner American Scholar lecture
AUGUST 24, 2012 by Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations Dr. Bryan Bibb, associate professor of religion at Furman, will present the Bonner American Scholar Lecture Thursday, Aug. 30 to mark the beginning...
Continue ReadingUnique, creative, unusual: That’s the Paladins
Nicknames can showcase a school's creativity in branding its athletic teams. Sometimes, it is a connection to the history of the school or region. Other times, the nickname choice defies explanation. Yahoo! Sports compiled its...
Continue ReadingAn impressive choral accomplishment
Jeffrey Baxter, a 1982 Furman graduate in music education, has been named the Florence Kopleff Choral Administrator Chair for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The chair was created in perpetuity as a tribute to American contralto...
Continue ReadingBaxter named to new chair for Atlanta Symphony
Jeffrey Baxter, a 1982 Furman graduate in music education, has been named the Florence Kopleff Choral Administrator Chair for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The chair was created in perpetuity as a tribute to American contralto...
Continue ReadingThe Reggio way
AUGUST 22, 2012 by Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer “How do trees drink out of their roots?” “Where does tree sap come from?” “Why do squirrels live in trees?” They may not even be in first...
Continue ReadingZwing earns high USC honor
FALL, 2012 Lyndey Ritz Zwing, a 2009 Furman graduate in political science, received a Compleat Lawyer Bronze Award at the May 2012 Commencement ceremonies at the University of South Carolina School of Law. The award...
Continue ReadingFurman listed in Princeton Review college guide
Furman is featured in the new 2013 edition of The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, The Best 377 Colleges. About 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and three colleges outside the U.S.A. are profiled...
Continue ReadingFive appointed to endowed professorships
AUGUST 21, 2012 by John Roberts, Newspage Editor Faculty appointments to one life-time and four limited-term endowed professorships were announced last week by John Beckford, vice president for academic affairs and dean. The honored professors are...
Continue ReadingUnderwood’s article published
FALL, 2012 Robert Underwood’s article, "Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S.: Economic and Market Consequences of Globalization," has been published in the September/October issue of the journal Business Horizons. The article examines the growth of foreign...
Continue ReadingFan Fest, field day and more
AUGUST 20, 2012 by John Roberts, Newspage Editor Furman Fan Fest, an exhibition soccer game against Wake Forest and a field day for the class of Class of 2016: they were all part of a...
Continue ReadingGreen is “cool” in Sierra Club list
Furman is listed in the Sierra Club’s sixth annual ranking of America's greenest colleges. The 96 “cool” schools were noted for their commitment to making environmental improvements and performing well in the survey's various categories,...
Continue ReadingIn praise and memory of Dr. Hans Einstein
Dr. Hans Einstein, a 1943 Furman graduate, was an immigrant success story, healer, family man and visionary. A distant relative of famed physicist Albert Einstein, he practiced internal and pulmonary medicine for decades in Bakersfield,...
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