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MayX Snapshot: Modern minds examine an ancient discipline

This week, we’re highlighting courses from May Experience – a chance for students to explore topics beyond the typical academic year. COURSE: Yoga in America INSTRUCTOR: Diane Boyd, associate dean of faculty development and executive...

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MayX Snapshot: Keeping patient care from being lost in translation

This week, we’re highlighting courses from May Experience – a chance for students to explore topics beyond the typical academic year. COURSE: Beginner Medical Spanish INSTRUCTOR: Maria Rippon, associate professor of Spanish DESCRIPTION: Students will...

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MayX Snapshot: Meet the beetles – and the dragonflies, and the grasshoppers

This week, we’re highlighting courses from May Experience – a chance for students to explore topics beyond the typical academic year. COURSE: Insect Diversity INSTRUCTOR: Wade Worthen, Rose J. Forgione Professor of Biology DESCRIPTION: Field-based...

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MayX Snapshots: An inside look at some student experiences

Presenting some highlights from the 2022 May Experience – a chance for students to explore topics beyond the typical academic year. Modern minds examine an ancient discipline How could an ancient practice, with roots in...

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Furman’s Anna Morgan gears up for U.S. Open

FOX Carolina Sports sat down with Furman University's Anna Morgan '23 about her road to the 2022 U.S. Open, which begins June 2. Morgan, a Spartanburg, South Carolina, native who began playing golf at age...

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Ten questions with Ty Houck of Greenville County Parks, Recreation & Tourism

In a Q&A piece for GVL Today, Furman University geology alumnus Ty Houck '93 offered his take on food, future developments, Upstate visionaries and more. Houck, director of greenways, natural and historic resources for Greenville...

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2021 inductees to Iowa Business Hall of Fame are announced

Angela L. Walker Franklin, a 1981 Furman University alumna and president of Des Moines University, has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. She and two other inductees were honored on May 4 for...

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How to Spend a Weekend in Greenville, SC

Just in time for a long weekend, StyleBlueprint offers its take on how to enjoy Furman University's hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. The article includes bits on some the city's greatest food and drink finds,...

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Better counseling or better gun control?

In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers perished, FOX Carolina reached out to longtime South Carolina educator and Furman University Education Professor Paul Thomas....

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Minor Mickel Shaw receives national award for higher education support

Civic leader and philanthropist Minor Mickel Shaw is this year’s recipient of the Council of Independent Colleges' Charles W. L. Foreman Award in recognition of her stalwart support of South Carolina’s private colleges and universities....

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Furman grad to continue family tradition of armed forces service, celebrates marriage and diploma

There's a lot going on for Taylor Griffin '22 this year. She commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, she graduated Furman University with a bachelor's in health sciences, she'll move to El...

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Dragonflies reveal clues about efficacy of forest remediation efforts

Furman University's Wade Worthen says ecosystems are a lot like any complex machine. Take a car, for example. “You pop the hood and start pulling out plugs and belts and cables, and your car is...

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