2019: The Year in Review

As we get ready to enter the second month of 2020, let’s revisit the remarkable year we just wrapped up. From groundbreaking science to life-changing service, from Furman athletics to historic reflection, 2019 was a...

Furman celebrates start of 2019-20 academic year with opening Convocation

Once a homeless high school dropout, LaDavia Drummond Just ’02 today possesses four college degrees and is a Fulbright Scholar teaching pharmacology to second-year medical students at Uganda Christian University School in Kampala, Uganda. That...

Shucker Fellow secures $132,500 for Soteria

Madison Hurst ’21 is carrying on her family tradition: helping those in need. It was her grandparents’ assistance to incarcerated people that inspired Hurst’s interest in the Soteria Community Development Corporation. She volunteered for the...

Oryza Astari ’16 named Rosenthal Fellow

Oryza Astari, a 2016 Furman politics and international affairs and philosophy graduate, is among a select group of graduate students to receive the prestigious Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations this year. Established in...

Awards spotlight outstanding leadership in service and diversity

The signs of spring are everywhere on campus—cherry blossoms, birds chirping, the Janie Earle Rose Garden on the cusp of unfurling its blooms. And while the environmental signs of the season are many, so are...

Steering students toward success

As a member of the Furman College Advising Corps (CAC), Furman alumna Katie Foster '17 works alongside guidance counselors as a full-time college adviser, making sure students at Lewisville High School in South Carolina have...

2018: The year in review

Cruising to diplomacy

Perhaps no other Pacific Rim country besides Papua New Guinea (PNG) is more emblematic of the need for an organization that aims to support sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the region. PNG, home to...

2018 Senior Spotlight

Our Senior Spotlights illuminate - from the lab to the links, the classroom to the stage, study away to activism - the unique journeys that lead to graduation.

Tikhonovsky named University Innovation Fellow by Stanford design school

Furman University sophomore Natalie Tikhonovsky has been named a University Innovation Fellow by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.  She is the daughter of Sergey and Oksana Tikhonovsky of Marietta, Georgia. Tikhonovsky joins a...

Shucker Center receives grant from Triad Foundation

Furman University has received a $25,000 grant from the Triad Foundation of Ithaca, New York to support the University’s Shucker Center for Leadership Development. This latest gift marks the foundation’s fourth to the Shucker Center,...

Furman presents program about global refugee crisis Sept. 14

Furman University will present a program about the global refugee crisis Thursday, Sept. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in Burgiss Theater in the Trone Student Center on campus. The Cultural Life Program event is free and...