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Breaking the cycle
South Carolinians who are struggling need a living wage if they are ever to climb out of poverty, said a state representative at the summer series of StraightTalkSC, sponsored by the Riley Institute at Furman...
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Nathan Cook was one of two Furman University faculty members to be awarded the Alester G. Furman Jr. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching during the May 2014 Commencement exercises. The Furmans endowed...
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Charles Stayer plans to come to his Advanced Placement Geography classes dressed a little differently this fall. Stayer, a teacher and dean of students at Coastal Christian Preparatory School in Mount Pleasant, will don a...
Continue ReadingChampioning innovation at Furman
In the fall of his senior year of high school, Ben Riddle was accepted to Furman, a school located in his hometown and where his parents attended. Then in March of 2012, he was accepted...
Continue ReadingFurman grads take Yik Yak to new level
Two 2013 Furman graduates—Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll—have raised $10 million from major Silicon Valley investors to fund Yik Yak, a location-based social app that allows users to post messages anonymously to other users in...
Continue ReadingFurman a great place to work
The Chronicle of Higher Education has once again designated Furman as a great place to work. Furman was one of 92 colleges that were recognized in the Chronicle’s seventh annual “Great Colleges to Work For” survey. The...
Continue Reading“Crisis of the working poor” series continues
The Riley Institute and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University present Straight Talk SC, their fourth annual weekly series. The second session in the series, “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working...
Continue ReadingKeeping up with the Boston arts scene
Graham Wright, a 2000 Furman graduate, is founder of Opus Affair, a non-profit organization in Boston that hosts monthly informal meetings for those interested in the arts. Since he founded the organization six years ago,...
Continue ReadingOLLI and Riley Institute present series, Crisis of the Working Poor
The Riley Institute and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University present Straight Talk SC, their fourth annual weekly series. This year’s series, “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working Poor,” takes place...
Continue ReadingThe science and art of origami
Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, demands patience and dexterity. For 2009 Furman graduate Rebecca Gieseking, who is studying for a Ph.D. in chemistry at Georgia Tech, it also provides a challenge to...
Continue ReadingAn evolutionary moment in the schools
A South Carolina state Senator recently stalled the adoption of state education standards because he wanted students to have the additional opportunity of studying scientific arguments that would appear to discredit Darwinian natural selection. In...
Continue ReadingAcademic freedom in Turkey?
Academic freedom is not something Turkey is known for, and Furman political science professor Kadir Yildirim says that recent legislation on higher education makes sure it will stay that way for years to come. In...
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