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Paladins to open at UGa Saturday
[caption id="attachment_13890" align="alignright" width="222"] Trent Pannell, Turner Morches, Richard Budd and Derek Jones are seniors on the Furman Team. [/caption] The Furman Rugby team will launch the fall season Saturday with contests against the University of...
Continue ReadingRichardson named Emerging Teacher of the Year
Once a year, Spanish teacher Jessica Richardson ’12 rolls out the red carpet for her students, literally. After viewing the latest couture from Spain on fashion channel Solo Moda, Richardson and her students rearrange their...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute announces finalists for Excellence Award
The Riley Institute at Furman and South Carolina Future Minds have announced the three finalists for the Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award for Excellence. The winner of the annual award, which highlights innovative educational initiatives...
Continue ReadingDorismond among finalists for NCAA Woman of the Year award
Former Furman volleyball player Christina Dorismond has been named one of the top 30 honorees for the 2014 NCAA Woman of the Year award. The 2014 graduate finished her Furman career with a 3.98 GPA in...
Continue ReadingSustainability and collaboration
Furman is well known for its beautiful campus, commitment to sustainability and opportunities for deep undergraduate student research. These three components came together when the campus was recently designated as a Level I arboretum through...
Continue ReadingMichta to speak about crisis in Ukraine
Andrew Michta, PhD, M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, will speak Thursday, Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. in Watkins Room in the Trone Student Center on the Furman campus. His talk, “U.S.,...
Continue ReadingThe wisdom of students
When 2014 graduate Zach Hall was a student at Furman, he developed a course-selection website that helped his fellow students sign up for and keep track of available classes. As a result, Hall’s contributions to...
Continue ReadingOutreach concert series set for The Woodlands@Furman
The Furman University Music Department and Partners in the Arts has announced a new community engagement and outreach initiative for The Woodlands@Furman retirement community. First Fridays @ The Woodlands is an engaging and free concert series...
Continue ReadingRyan Boyle’s story is a triumphant one
Furman University junior Ryan Boyle, who will compete in the International Cycling Union Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville Aug. 28-Sept. 1, overcame a devastating and nearly fatal brain injury as a child to become...
Continue ReadingThe affair continues
[caption id="attachment_13742" align="alignright" width="400"] Graham Wright (center) with members of Opus Affair [/caption] Graham Wright ’00 originally moved to Boston to get a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then he decided...
Continue ReadingAn inexact science
Lisa Cantrell ’07 is pairing cognitive science research and the art of storytelling in a unique new podcast designed to share the answers to some of the most human phenomena. “What makes people creative?,” “Why...
Continue ReadingAn Opus Affair
Graham Wright was in love. But an exclusive relationship? In his twenties? In Boston? No. Wasn’t going to happen. So Wright did what any red-blooded young man in the prime of his life would...
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