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Alum Erika Powell named Miss South Carolina USA
Erika Powell, a 2007 Furman graduate, has been named Miss South Carolina USA 2012. A voice performance major at the university, Powell will represent South Carolina at the Miss USA 2012 pageant next summer in...
Continue ReadingOsher Foundation awards $1 million to OLLI @ Furman
NOVEMBER 17, 2011 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Director The Bernard Osher Foundation of San Francisco has awarded the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman University a $1 million grant in support of the...
Continue ReadingMedical school can wait for William Middleton
The plan was going ahead full-steam for former Paladin football player Will Middleton. He graduated from Furman in four years. He spent his fifth playing football and preparing for the MCATs and internships so he...
Continue ReadingFurman listed among “Best Values” in Kiplinger’s
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has named Furman as one of the “Best Values in Private Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges” for 2011-2012. The magazine lists the top 100 schools in each of the private university...
Continue ReadingAnnapolis Group study shows high satisfaction among liberal arts graduates
NOVEMBER 16, 2011 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Director A new national study commissioned by the Annapolis Group, a consortium of America’s leading liberal arts colleges, has found that graduates of residential liberal arts colleges...
Continue ReadingA beautiful discussion
The Morning News team at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., got into an interesting debate about the most beautiful college campuses in America. Several folks at the station nominated their alma maters, including executive producer Scott...
Continue ReadingPhilosophy professor Simmons publishes new book about God, ethics and politics
NOVEMBER 8, 2011 by Tina Underwood, Media Relations J. Aaron Simmons, an assistant professor of philosophy at Furman, has written a new book about God, ethics and politics. In "God and the Other: Ethics and...
Continue ReadingAlum Stephen O’Day joins Southern Environmental Law Center
The Southern Environmental Law Center has announced that Stephen O’Day, a 1976 Furman graduate, has been named chairman of the organization’s Board of Trustees. O’Day, who majored in political science at Furman and earned his...
Continue Reading10 things to know about the Paladins
The Furman football team is traveling to Gainesville this weekend to take on the Florida Gators. It will be the ninth overall meeting between the schools and the first since 1990. The Gators have won...
Continue ReadingScenes from Saturday
A heartbreaking 41-34 loss to Elon, a 3-1 win over the Davidson women’s volleyball team and a visit by presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Jeremy Fleming was on campus to capture scenes from Saturday. Enjoy
Continue ReadingFurman students at APEC
Four Furman students and two professors are currently in Hawaii for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference. As part of their duties at the conference, the students attended a meeting of the APEC Forum Finance...
Continue ReadingReb and his dog, Lilly, featured on SCETV
Furman sophomore Reb Boyd has a dog named Lilly. But Lilly is no ordinary dog, and she goes everywhere he goes. Reb has type 1 diabetes, and Lilly is trained to detect if his blood...
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