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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...

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Shucker Fellows bring STEM speakers to Fairforest Elementary

Each month throughout this school year, the learning experience for fifth graders at Fairforest Elementary School in Spartanburg has be enhanced by educational visits from STEM professionals in the area whose disciplines coordinate with the concepts...

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Shucker Fellows attend Disney’s Youth Education Series

When Kim Keefer, director of Furman’s Shucker Center for Leadership Development, decided in the fall of 2015 it was time to replace the five-day Outward Bound Wilderness Leadership Program Shucker Fellows had long attended, Disney’s...

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Sustainability in action

For Jenni Asman ’11, a career in sustainability was far from her original intention. The current program manager for sustainability at Georgia State University started off as a neuroscience major at Furman University, but quickly...

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Shucker Fellows host leadership conference for upstate high schoolers

The Jefferson Awards Foundation is a national organization with a mission to “train and empower youth to be leaders and changemakers.” Furman’s Shucker Leadership Institute (SLI) intends to “prepare students for a lifetime of meaningful...

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Shucker Fellows organize lecture series for retirees

  Because of the retirement community’s partnership with nearby Furman, residents of The Woodlands at Furman have access to many unique opportunities. There is no better example than a lecture series organized last fall by...

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Shucker Graduate in the Spotlight

Austin Charles History and Asian Studies Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Austin Charles knew he wanted to be on the other side of an ocean someday. The question was, which one? A summer semester in Oxford,...

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The Passion Behind Challenge Projects

“I think one of the biggest things I’ve learned is that leaders can come in all shapes and sizes,” Kleine says. “Originally coming into college I just thought that a leader was someone that was...

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Shucker Graduate Rises Above the Challenge

Luke Christie has never taken a walk, can't cut his own steak and can't put himself to bed, but when you talk to him, you tend to forget his physical challenges. He's articulate, intelligent, funny...

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Fulbright Grants Awarded to Two Shucker Graduates

Four Furman University students have been awarded English Teaching Assistantships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The Fulbright recipients, who will begin their teaching assignments this fall, are Natalia Arenas (Simpsonville, S.C.); Bryan Betts (Tega...

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In the heat of battle against COVID-19

[caption id="attachment_45499" align="alignright" width="400"] Sue Shugart '88 with colleagues on the night shift at KershawHealth. The hospital had one of South Carolina's first two COVID-19 patients, and the town of Camden became the first area...

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