psychology
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...
Continue ReadingJoseph 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...
Continue ReadingJackson Pearce ’18 named 2021-2022 Luce Scholar
Jackson Pearce ’18, a third-year medical student at Medical University of South Carolina, has been named a 2021-2022 Luce Scholar. One of only 18 scholars selected from a pool of 164 candidates, Pearce will take...
Continue ReadingDes Moines University President Angela Franklin ’81 leads historic transformation
Angela Walker Franklin ’81 has been some combination of “only” or “first” so many times in her life she’s lost count – probably because it never mattered much to her either way. “I was the...
Continue ReadingLet 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...
Continue ReadingMill Village Farms grows healthy food, opportunities and hope
Several initiatives led by Furman University alum Dan Weidenbenner's Mill Community Ministries aim to lessen food insecurity, impart job and entrepreneurship skills and instill hope for the citizens of Greenville County. Weidenbenner, a 2011 psychology...
Continue ReadingClass 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...
Continue ReadingMessage 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...
Continue Reading2020: 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...
Continue ReadingEmma Jones ’20 helped her community acknowledge its painful history
Emma Jones ’20 knew she came from a place steeped in history. But she didn’t know pieces of that history had been left out. “There’s a lot of memorials there,” Jones says of Walker County,...
Continue ReadingChallenging the NCAA: HBCUs say no more discrimination in academic rules
Monique Ositelu has spent a good deal of her professional time thinking about the inequities of the NCAA's system for measuring academic performance at traditional colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Ositelu, a...
Continue ReadingA Newsletter proposal, in six words
It takes a lot of moxie to proffer a Thanksgiving Day marriage proposal in The New York Times. Or maybe it takes a lot of faith in a relationship, or just plain love. Furman University...
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