innovation-and-entrepreneurship

Why the Upstate market is attracting venture capital

Vincent Harris of Upstate Business Journal (a publication of Community Journals) writes about Greenville, South Carolina, and its growing reputation for attracting venture capital firms. One such firm is North Carolina-based Flywheel Coworking. The company...

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Developing creative accountants

If you read the title, "Developing Creative Accountants," and skipped the article because you're not an accountant, you may want to reconsider and put this one at the top of your "must read" list. In...

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Furman receives second $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment

Furman University has received a $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment to expand and advance The Furman Advantage, the university’s transformational approach to offering every student a pathway toward a meaningful and valuable college...

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Hands off

[caption id="attachment_49233" align="alignright" width="315"] Doug Meyer-Cuno '85 is a ForbesBooks author.[/caption] Ever wonder if you're a micromanager? Doug Meyer-Cuno, a 1985 Furman University graduate, has a new book that helps diagnose the managerial malady and...

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Furman partners with United Community Bank, SCBIO on Women’s Leadership Institute

Furman University’s Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) will be presented virtually this year with two statewide community partners supporting the effort. United Community Bank will be the program’s presenting sponsor and SCBIO has signed on to...

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Let Joseph Vaughn Day shine a light on our values

This morning, President Elizabeth Davis sent the following message to the campus community to celebrate Joseph Vaughn Day. Dear Campus Community, At last week’s presidential inauguration, poet Amanda Gorman reminded us that “there is always...

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The right chemistry: Furman undergrad makes a name for herself in computational field

How do you top off an undergraduate career that earned two of the nation’s top awards? If you’re Ariel Gale ’20, who graduated with a degree in chemistry, you spend your last semester, during a...

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Message from President Davis: A commitment to our democracy

Today, Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University, sent the following message to the Furman community. Dear Campus Community, Yesterday was one of the most troubling days in the history of our American democracy. Like many...

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First mobile app connecting parents of children who have cancer launches

Tatum Fettig doesn’t expect and would never want you to understand what she and her husband, Jeff, have gone through since their daughter, Teagan, was diagnosed with brain cancer on Dec. 5, 2016 – the...

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Members of the class of 2020 receive Furman’s highest honors

Congratulations to these members of the Furman class of 2020, who received the university's highest honors: Scholarship Cup Awards Catherine Lippert Catherine Lippert discovered her major fairly late in her time at Furman and immersed...

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Innovation Hour brings good ideas to life

Creative people find outlets for their gifts through paint and canvas, a camera lens, ink and paper, clay on a potter’s wheel, or maybe a well-worn stage. But where’s the conduit for a great idea,...

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Furman Innovation, Entrepreneurship gains global recognition

Furman University’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been named an Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, a group of more than 250 universities. Other recipients of the award were...

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