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Moving out instructions
APRIL 24, 2012 With exams to begin this week, many students will soon begin to pack up, clean up and depart campus. Those doing so are encouraged to review the residence hall closing instructions, which...
Continue ReadingBrown-Nagin book receives another award
The new book by 1992 Furman graduate Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, has received the 2012 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American...
Continue ReadingChemistry department receives Beckman award
APRIL 23, 2012 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Furman is one of 11 schools nationally to receive a Beckman Scholars Program Institutional Award, a highly competitive grant supporting scientific research by undergraduates. The $77,200 grant...
Continue ReadingModern languages professor Cherry receives Founders Award
APRIL 17, 2012 by Tina T. Underwood, Media Relations Modern languages professor Maurice Cherry has received the 2012 Founders Award from the Southern Conference on Language Teaching. The award was presented last month in Atlanta. Cherry...
Continue ReadingShi Center comments on community gardens
Katherine Kransteuber, program coordinator for Furman’s Shi Center for Sustainability, was quoted in a Greenville News story about the rise of community gardens in the Upstate area. The biggest benefit of the gardens, she said, is...
Continue ReadingInternationally known conductor in residence
Internationally known conductor John Nelson is in residence at Furman all week, giving master classes and preparing the orchestra and several choral ensembles for a April 15 performance of Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 2.” In advance...
Continue ReadingFurman student takes different spring break
Furman junior Michael Sauer was psyched for spring break this year. After months of nothing but business courses, the business administration major was ready to take a break from the computer and get into nature....
Continue ReadingStrange bedfellows? math and baseball
APRIL 9, 2012 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Is it possible to rank Major League Baseball teams and predict their day-to-day play by looking through the prism of a few mathematical concepts? Maybe so. At least...
Continue ReadingFurman alum top graduate at veterinary school
Virginia Tech has named 2008 Furman graduate Brittany J. Carr as the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine for the 2011-12 academic year. Carr graduated magna cum laude from Furman...
Continue ReadingPresident Smolla discusses the law
Furman president Rod Smolla, one of the country’s top legal scholars, was interviewed by the Greenville law firm of Gallivan, White and Boyd, P.A. In addition to talking about civility in the legal profession and...
Continue ReadingWhat is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Captain Moore explains
APRIL 3, 2012 by Daniel Smith '14, Contributing Writer When imagining the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of trash roughly twice the size of Texas, an image of a landfill floating on the surface...
Continue ReadingTen new members to join Furman Board of Trustees
MARCH 29, 2012 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Richard W. Riley, chair of the Furman Board of Trustees, has announced that 10 new members will join the board this summer. The new trustees are Ann Bryan...
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