2018: The year in review

Furman installs epinephrine kits

"Twenty-five percent of people who suffer from life-threatening allergies don’t know it, and those who do often engage in risky behavior by not carrying their prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors," reports Cindy Landrum of the Greenville Journal....

New campus AEKs mean faster response to Anaphylactic Shock

A partnership between Furman’s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) and Nashville-based company LifeReach has culminated with the installation of Anaphylaxis Emergency Kits (AEKs) around campus that will dramatically improve the university's ability to...

Furman receives grant for Healthy Greenville project

Furman University Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) has received a $592,486 grant for a project that addresses care for Greenville’s senior adult population through the Healthy Greenville initiative. The grant is part...

Furman students serve as delegates to the U.N.

An intensive immersion into humanity’s most pressing and daunting problems has the potential to be demoralizing. For Furman senior McKenna Luzynski, however, last month’s UNA-USA Global Engagement Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New...

Research highlights medical-legal partnership’s role in promoting health equity

Research published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) in Health Affairs shares how more than 300 hospitals, health centers, and clinics across the U.S. are using legal services to address patients’ unmet social...

Furman presents conference on climate change Nov. 8-9

Furman University will present a conference on climate change Wednesday, Nov. 8 and Thursday, Nov. 9 from 7-8:30 p.m. in Shaw Hall of Younts Conference Center on campus. [caption id="attachment_34853" align="alignright" width="232"] Charles Bolden, Photo...

LiveWell Greenville gets boost from Duke Endowment

LiveWell Greenville (LWG) announced it has received the Healthy People Healthy Carolinas grant from the Duke Endowment in partnership with Bon Secours St. Francis. The grant will further LWG's mission "to make the healthy choice the easy choice...

The road home

One Saturday in early July, when you were likely asleep, Arianna (McClain) Shirk ’02 was dancing joyously in AIC Kijabi Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit in Kijabi, Kenya. Calming the labored breathing of a 1-pound infant,...

Personalized pathways

A detailed article in Business Officer focuses on The Furman Advantage, the university’s new strategic plan which is described as “an overarching, institution-wide program that focuses on providing a defined, personalized pathway for each student...

Team of believers

Madison Ritter ’17 spent the summer before her senior year in Memphis, participating in research at the University of Tennessee and clinical observation at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It was a dream come true—and...

Furman part of newly designated academic health center

Greenville Health System was not only named an academic health center this week; it joined with partners Clemson University, Furman University and the University of South Carolina to announce a unique “clinical university model” that...