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Young Catholic America
Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of and Gone from the Church offers a unique and in-depth look into the viewpoints of young Catholics over a period of ten years, from their teens into...
Continue ReadingBusiness and accounting students receive top honors
Furman University’s business and accounting department recently honored five students—three seniors and two juniors—with awards for their academic achievements. Senior Will Crooks received the Fred and June Current Accounting Award. Hayley Frost and Hunter Burton,...
Continue ReadingMiss S.C. pledges support for statewide texting ban
Furman alumna and Miss S.C. 2013 Brooke Mosteller came to the State House Wednesday, May 7, with Miss Teen S.C. Brook Sill and dozens of other women vying for Mosteller’s crown this year, to sign...
Continue ReadingA cultural exchange
Zach Burnett, a Furman University senior from Frankfort, Ky., has been awarded an assistantship to teach English and American culture in primary and secondary schools in the Aix-Marseille region of France. The Teaching Assistant Program...
Continue ReadingSpeaks and Dozier named Paladin athletes of the year
Furman’s best were honored recently at the school’s all-sports awards banquet, highlighted by the best of the best – Dakota Dozier and Ansley Speaks, who were named the Paladin male and female athletes of the...
Continue ReadingNewman to be a Paladin
Matti Newman, a talented fullback and wing from Lincolnshire County, England, has accepted a Furman rugby scholarship and will join the Paladins this fall. Newman is currently a starter on the Spalding Rugby Football Club....
Continue ReadingMeet the newest members of Phi Beta Kappa
Sixty-one Furman students were elected this spring to the school’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society. Dr. Charles Brewer, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology at Furman...
Continue ReadingEpright to join USC School of Medicine clinical faculty
Philosophy professor Carmela Epright has been invited to join the Department of Psychiatry at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia as Clinical Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science. She is the...
Continue ReadingFrom plant to palate
“I hate plants.” “I don’t want to study plants.” More than once, Furman Biology Professor and plant physiologist Laura Thompson has heard these words uttered from the mouths of incoming biology and pre-health advisees. But...
Continue ReadingCulver’s Anthony commits to Furman
Michael Anthony, a two-year team captain and Indiana select side player, has accepted a Furman rugby scholarship and will join the Paladins this fall. Anthony, 5’10, 170 pounds, is a senior on the powerful Culver...
Continue ReadingFU times two
For many incoming freshman, making the transition to college life—new friends, new digs, new routine—can be daunting. But for identical twins, Kayla and Kellie Bingham ’14, plunging into their freshman year at Furman was a...
Continue ReadingPaladins finish third at SRC tourney, put wrap on 2013-14 season
Furman put a wrap on the team’s inaugural spring 7s season with a respectable third-place finish in the Southern Conference Championship 7s tournament April 26-27. The Paladins completed the two-day tournament, hosted by UNC-Greensboro, with...
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