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Commencement address by Cynthia L. Davis ’84

Furman University Commencement Address Cynthia L. Davis ’84 May 7, 2022 Greetings President Davis, Trustees, Furman faculty, staff and administration, honorees, families, friends, and the Furman University Graduating Class of 2022. What a momentous day!...

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Student address by Yunji Rosie Kim ’22

Student Address Furman University Commencement Yunji Rosie Kim ’22 May 7, 2022 What an honor it is to be standing here to represent the Class of 2022. As many of you know, I am an...

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Class of 2022 celebrates with family and community at Commencement

Read the commencement address by Cynthia L. Davis '84 Read the student address by Yunji Rosie Kim '22 2022 student and faculty awards 2022 Senior Spotlights View the archived livestream here By 5 p.m. Saturday,...

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Senior Spotlight 2022

From graduate school to first jobs, find out what these six members of the Class of 2022 are doing after graduation in our annual Senior Spotlight gallery. University Communications would like to offer a special...

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Here is a hard historical truth: Slavery powerfully shaped Harvard

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a 1992 Furman University history alumna, and Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Harvard University, write an opinion piece for The Washington Post about a report released April 26 concerning Harvard's ties to slavery...

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Cindy Davis ’84 set to deliver Commencement address

Cindy Davis ’84, former vice president of Nike Inc. and former president of Nike Golf, will address Furman’s Class of 2022 during the Commencement ceremony May 7 at Paladin Stadium. Before joining Nike, Davis, who...

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8th Annual Dins Day is April 26

DINS DAY IS April 26, 2022! Please give to support Furman students and faculty. Furman University students, alumni, parents and friends will kick off the eighth annual Dins Day, a 24-hour celebration of Paladin pride...

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African students share cultures and invite understanding

“Africans Do Not All Look Alike.” So reads the poster for an event organized by Furman’s Afrikiya student organization. The pervasive ignorance that prompts the need for such a statement was just one of the...

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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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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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