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Funding local ventures + a new West End eatery

The everything Greenville platform, GVL Today, spotlights the city's first #StartupGVL event, which took place in recent weeks. Among the organizations hosting incubator events was The Hill Institute for Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the...

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Krista Just to be Furman ROTC’s first-ever woman U.S. Army infantry officer

Local media sources picked up the news about Furman University's first woman ROTC cadet to commission as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. Krista Just '22, a Furman biology major from Pickens, South Carolina,...

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Innovators Take the Stage

Like most woodwind players, first-year student Alexandra Valdovinos '25 goes through a lot of reeds each month. She loves the music she can create with the reeds  – thin pieces of wood that vibrate when...

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Just the first for women in Furman ROTC

Furman University Army ROTC cadets wake at zero dark thirty for hour-long physical fitness drills three times a week. They take a three-hour, hands-on tactical lab once a week, march six to 12 miles with...

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Furman makes it to the ‘Big Dance’ of mock trial competitions

After a police department lab technician was found dead of an apparent overdose, an officer on the force was charged in a scheme to skim off drugs. Erica Daly ’22 and her legal team spent...

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Student leaders ‘make Furman proud’

“It has been an absolute joy to watch these amazing young Furman student leaders flourish during their time at Furman,” said Kim Keefer, director of the Shucker Center for Leadership Development. Forty of those students,...

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Students shine at Furman Engaged 2022

The 14th annual Furman Engaged took us from the stage to the field and from the lab to the community – and countless other places – as 700 students presented and reflected on their engaged...

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Danielle Vinson comments on KBJ appointment to SCOTUS

The Statehouse Report interviewed Danielle Vinson, professor of politics and international affairs, for a story about the appointment of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Vinson said that...

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Furman students named Goldwater Scholars

GSA BizWire featured Goldwater Scholars Tom Whittemore '23 and Conor Bready '24, in its online publication. Whittemore, a chemistry major from Easley, South Carolina, is mentored by Paul Wagenknecht '86, professor of chemistry. Bready, a...

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Installation of peace pole makes local TV news

John Harris, professor of math and director of the Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection, was interviewed by WYFF News 4 about the university's installation of a peace pole. Harris said the pole can inspire someone "to...

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Seven Things To Know About Furman Engaged

Find out why the Greenville Woman's College was nicknamed Suzy's Zoo. Consider a whole new rebrand of downtown Greer, South Carolina. See if heart rate monitoring by Apple Watch lives up to its accuracy claims. And,...

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Furman dedicates peace pole on campus

A steady rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of about 50 students, faculty, staff and guests who gathered inside Hartness Pavilion at Furman University on Tuesday, April 5, to dedicate the installation of a peace pole....

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