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Giving voice
“Stand up and speak to increase the visibility of those who aren’t seen. But also know when it is your time to sit and lend the microphone to those whose experiences can be louder and...
Continue ReadingBreaking boundaries and bettering lives
Just three months after she graduated with a double major in political science and Spanish and a double minor in poverty studies and Latin American studies, Cassandra “Cassie” Chee ’15 arrived in Las Cruces, New...
Continue ReadingLife through the lens of Army photojournalist Mike MacLeod
“When you’re a writer, life’s a smorgasbord,” says Mike MacLeod ’89. From tracking grey wolves in Montana, to starting his own magazine, to serving the United States Army, to writing a memoir about his time in the Middle...
Continue ReadingFurman awards Childers Teaching Excellence Award to two 2015 graduates
Mary Varley, a first-year third grade teacher at Anderson Mill Elementary School in Spartanburg District 6, and John Morrison, a social studies student teacher intern at Berea High School in Greenville, have been named recipients...
Continue ReadingFurman alums write about the Merkel magic
Before Time magazine named Angela Merkel its 2015 Person of the Year, Furman alums Claire Greenstein ’11 and Brandon Tensley ’12 wrote about the influential German Chancellor for Foreign Affairs magazine. In the op-ed, “The...
Continue ReadingThe science of service
Though some may argue science and religion are irreconcilable fields, David Sibley ’07 proves that they intersect. Sibley serves as Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Manhasset, NY, but in college he was set on...
Continue ReadingPresident Davis featured in magazine article
Read Q&A with President Elizabeth Davis In a wide-ranging interview with Black Box Magazine, Furman President Elizabeth Davis talked about everything from growing up in New Orleans and playing in a band with Wynton Marsalis...
Continue ReadingWhat Really Matters? Read President Davis’ Speech
Furman President Elizabeth Davis talked about what is truly important and why thinking like an accountant is not necessarily a bad thing when she delivered the “What Really Matters?” lecture on campus Tuesday evening in...
Continue ReadingA lifetime of learning
Most parents attend their children’s graduation, but few sit beside them wearing a cap and gown. But so it was in 1961 that Ann Hall née Loftis ’61 sat beside her mother Irene Dill Loftis...
Continue ReadingPresident Davis to speak on “What Really Matters Nov. 17
Furman president Elizabeth Davis will speak on “What Really Matters?” Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in Furman’s Daniel Chapel. Her CLP talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Furman’s Chaplains...
Continue ReadingGoing the distance
The closest Jennifer Osorno-Bejarano ’12 came to giving up wasn’t when she moved to Greenville at the age of 15 unable to speak English. Nor was it when she couldn’t graduate from high school...
Continue ReadingDuke Endowment awards grant to Support Student Scholarships
Furman has received a $22.3 million grant from The Duke Endowment to strengthen and support one of the University’s premier merit scholarship programs. The grant includes $22 million for the University’s endowment to augment Furman’s James...
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