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Paladin couple has attended more than 700 basketball games
When the Furman basketball team next takes to the court, David ’55 and Carol Mauldin ’58 will be in the stands – just like they’ve been for nearly every Paladin home game since the 1950s....
Continue ReadingCivic and legislative leaders honored at Wilkins Awards
Rep. Gary Simrill (R-York) and Nella Barkley, president of Crystal-Barkley Corporation, were honored Tuesday, Jan. 14, as recipients of the 2019 David H. Wilkins Leadership Awards. The awards recognize outstanding legislative and civic leadership in...
Continue ReadingBaker, Gerde named to All-SoCon Faculty and Staff Team
Elaine Baker, the associate athletics director for the Furman Sports Medicine Center, and Virginia W. Gerde, chair of and professor in Furman’s Department of Business and Accounting, have been named to the All-Southern Conference (SoCon)...
Continue ReadingFurman students offer their hands and hearts to community
It’s the season of giving – and Furman students are giving back to the Greenville community. Working through service organizations, athletic teams, fraternities and other groups, Furman students are improving the lives of children, feeding...
Continue ReadingPolitics expert: Black voters look for electability
Currently, Sen. Joe Biden is considered to be the favorite to win African Americans’ votes and the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. But, that could change, and it boils down to one factor: who has...
Continue ReadingSkylar Lambert ’19 wins undergraduate poster award at conference in Australia
Each of the first eight International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) conferences – including one in utero – Skylar Lambert ’19 attended with her mother, acclaimed neuroscientist Kelly Lambert, was special in its own way. But...
Continue Reading‘Neighborhood Change in Greenville’ study highlights impact of gentrification
United Way of Greenville County, in partnership with Furman University, has released findings from its “Neighborhood Change in Greenville” study, the first of its kind to blend qualitative feedback from community members with quantitative, searchable...
Continue ReadingBill Baker, Paige Ouzts ’93 invention could revolutionize diabetes management
When Furman Professor of Physics Bill Baker was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2003, it served as an initiation into a painful club. “The first thing you have to deal with is, ‘what is...
Continue Reading‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ hits healthy messages about body image
When she saw the trailer for the movie “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” Kerstin Blomquist’s first thought was, “Oh, no. They’re doing it again!” Blomquist, an associate professor of psychology at Furman University, studies how to...
Continue ReadingFormer white nationalist Derek Black to speak at StraightTalk Series
Derek Black was a white nationalist to the core and an active advocate for its ideology, his identity shaped from birth by living in a world where white people are the true victims of racism...
Continue ReadingFurman celebrates start of 2019-20 academic year with opening Convocation
Once a homeless high school dropout, LaDavia Drummond Just ’02 today possesses four college degrees and is a Fulbright Scholar teaching pharmacology to second-year medical students at Uganda Christian University School in Kampala, Uganda. That...
Continue ReadingSGA President Jesse Tompkins committed to ‘sense of belonging’
For many teenagers, there is no bigger decision than the college decision. Jesse Tompkins ’20 was not an exception, but he faced an even more significant choice as he prepared to start the next phase...
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