biology

Gut check: Anju Saxena ’21 will share work on how diet affects the brain

[embed]https://vimeo.com/530976880/d3b9b51a25[/embed] Dollars to doughnuts, Anju Saxena ’21 will see her name in a peer-reviewed scientific journal before she enters graduate school. Make that a maple doughnut. “Whenever I see a place that has a maple...

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Fall 2020 Dean’s List

Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the 2020 fall term. The honor is awarded to full-time undergraduates who earn a grade point average of at least 3.4 during the semester. The...

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Combatting (stream) bank failures

Biology major Libby Dixon, a senior at Furman University, spent last summer studying collapsing stream banks and working with Friends of the Reedy River, a conservation organization in Greenville, South Carolina. Using geographic information systems...

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Joseph Vaughn statue unveiling scheduled April 16

Furman University President Elizabeth Davis sent the message below to the campus community on Tuesday, March 2.  Learn more about the unveiling and watch the live video stream of the event. Dear Campus Community, We are...

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Taking inequities to heart

[caption id="attachment_49221" align="alignright" width="300"] Jason Williams '09, a pediatric cardiologist, is completing an advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging fellowship this year.[/caption] Many studies have shown that Black children in the United States born with congenital heart...

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5 cool measurement tools for quantifying regenerative agriculture

How are bird populations and sustainable agriculture related? Furman University's John Quinn, a biology professor, is working with General Mills to categorize and identify individual birds in thousands of hours of recordings captured by field...

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Let Joseph Vaughn Day shine a light on our values

This morning, President Elizabeth Davis sent the following message to the campus community to celebrate Joseph Vaughn Day. Dear Campus Community, At last week’s presidential inauguration, poet Amanda Gorman reminded us that “there is always...

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Class of 2020 Millennium Fellows graduate

Fourteen Furman University students have graduated in the 2020 class of the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long program of the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network. The program convenes, challenges and celebrates student...

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Message from President Davis: A commitment to our democracy

Today, Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University, sent the following message to the Furman community. Dear Campus Community, Yesterday was one of the most troubling days in the history of our American democracy. Like many...

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2020: The Year in Review

Amid the challenges, 2020 also brought us countless moments of joy, discovery and community – from learning and gathering virtually to getting out the vote to giving back. While students realized The Furman Advantage in...

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Paper leads to research partnership for biology professor Pamela Hanson

Mark Bazett, director of preclinical development at Bold Therapeutics, didn’t have a problem when he learned that Furman Professor of Biology Pamela Hanson intended to use undergraduates to help with research on his company’s anti-cancer...

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Members of the class of 2020 receive Furman’s highest honors

Congratulations to these members of the Furman class of 2020, who received the university's highest honors: Scholarship Cup Awards Catherine Lippert Catherine Lippert discovered her major fairly late in her time at Furman and immersed...

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