internships

A (Harper’s) Bazaar summer in New York City

When Julia Piotrowski ’19 arrived at Furman in 2016 aspiring to be a doctor, it’s safe to say she didn’t see herself spending the summer of 2018 in the heart of New York City working...

Continue Reading

Leveling Up in the Game of Life

When you tell your professors the plan is to focus on video games now that you’re in college, an enthusiastic “how can we help” isn’t usually the response. That’s exactly the reaction Noelle Warner ’19...

Continue Reading

2018 Senior Spotlight

Our Senior Spotlights illuminate - from the lab to the links, the classroom to the stage, study away to activism - the unique journeys that lead to graduation.

Continue Reading

The Answer to Success

Anne-Claire Pittman ’18 has been asking tough questions since her first days at Furman. In her pursuit of answers, she tapped into countless university resources, using everything she gathered to shape her career plans and...

Continue Reading

Student spotlight: Nicholas Tuschak Basinger

Furman University Health Sciences graduate Nicholas Tuschak Basinger '09 thought he wanted to go into physical therapy. But a couple of farming internships and a little Appalachian Trail soul-searching changed his trajectory. Now he's working...

Continue Reading

A weekend well spent

Furman welcomed more than 600 guests to campus Nov. 10–12 for Family Weekend 2017. Festivities kicked off with a pre-game tailgate featuring a band and BBQ, followed by a Furman football win over The Citadel....

Continue Reading

Two Furman juniors named Metropolitan Fellows

The Furman Metropolitan Fellowship (FMF) program announced today that Furman juniors Quincy Mix and Rachel Simon will be headed to New York City in the summer of 2018 to participate in one of the university’s...

Continue Reading

Furman partners with Freeman Foundation to offer internships in Asia

Until this year, Austin Saggus ’18 had never traveled farther than the East Coast. All that changed when, as part of a new May Experience course at Furman, Saggus boarded a plane and flew 10,000...

Continue Reading

Attention students: Furman Connections happens Nov. 9

There aren't too many places you can find upwards of 300 Furman students, alumni, parents, faculty and employers in the same room. But Thursday, Nov. 9 at 5-6:30 p.m., the Watkins Room in Trone Student...

Continue Reading

A Blue Ribbon Experience

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina insures a million people and processes about a billion medical claims each year. Nearly all of those are managed through the health care insurer’s password-protected provider’s website. Medical professionals go...

Continue Reading

Shaping the future of solar

If  lab work takes classroom theory and applies it, then a conference takes lab work and places it firmly in the real world. Two Furman students traveled to Oxford this month and experienced that real-world...

Continue Reading

Network access

Furman Computer Science Department Chair Kevin Treu doesn’t need to pore over three years’ worth of information to know whether or not the The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is worth his students’...

Continue Reading