Furman Golf Course to Join Rotation for BMW Charity Pro-Am in 2017

When the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation announced on Thursday its tournament dates for 2017, it had another bit of interesting news to share. The Furman Golf Club will be among the three...

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An Enterprise Built with Bread

Markey Culver ’08 doesn’t tell the story you expect. “I had zero interest in going to Africa,” Culver said. But she did go. And within a few years of setting foot on the continent, she...

Professor Ty Tessitore Appointed to New Faculty Chair

Furman University political science professor Aristide (Ty) Tessitore has been appointed to the newly established Jane Hipp Professorship in Western and American Political Thought at the university. The professorship was created in honor of the...

A legacy of HOPE

Steve Grant ’80 doesn’t shy away from telling the story, and you know the ending before it starts. Still, when he’s finished no response seems possible. “My first son died in 2005 in October, which...

Furman Singers Debut on Broadway

  This weekend, the Furman Singers will have a historic opportunity to add their voices to a Broadway show. The select group of sixteen singers will perform at the 1,505-seat Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York...

Furman Metropolitan Fellowship team names finalists

First-year growing pains behind them, the six alumni who created the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship are poised to financially and professionally assist another Furman junior who commits to a 2017 summer internship in New York City....

Come home to Furman

It’s time to reconnect—to professors, to roommates, to campus and even to Greenville itself, which may be a far cry from what it was the last time you saw it. Furman University’s Homecoming 2016 is...

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...

Furman Board of Trustees Welcomes New Members

The Furman University Board of Trustees welcomed six new members to the board during its fall meeting Saturday, Oct. 15. The new trustees are Yendelela Neely Anderson of Atlanta, Ga., Carl Kohrt of Salem, James...

The Recruits

When Dave Ellison ’72 and Steve Grant ’80 began building a Northwestern Mutual office nearly four decades ago in Greenville, the first and most important task was finding employees with the drive and confidence to...

A Shared Journey

Last week, Furman announced its vision to transform the student experience and redefine a liberal arts and sciences education. The centerpiece of “The Furman Advantage” is the university’s new model of community-centered learning, which will...