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In Congress, David Trone keeps it personal: Combating the opioid epidemic that killed his nephew
[caption id="attachment_53159" align="alignright" width="266"] U.S. Congressman David Trone.[/caption] For Maryland U.S. Representative David Trone (D-District 6), the nation's opioid crisis hits close to home. In 2016, Trone lost a nephew to an overdose of fentanyl-laced...
Continue ReadingO Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
The trappings of Christmas – stockings hung by the chimney with care, mistletoe, the crush of holiday shoppers, St. Nick and his doppelgangers, a rainbow of lights, bellringers, too much food, brightly packaged gifts, and...
Continue ReadingFurman professor’s book examines ‘Retail Inequality’ in Greenville
You may have been hearing the phrase “food desert” for more than two decades now. Since it first officially appeared in a 1995 report from a UK government task force, it has become a common...
Continue ReadingShi honored with AASHE Lifetime Achievement Award
When President David E. Shi ’73 began elevating sustainability as an essential strategic pillar for Furman University some 25 years ago, the idea drew support – and some skepticism. Several trustees, professors, alumni and students...
Continue Reading$1 million gift establishes need-based scholarships
Peace Sullivan, a former Furman University trustee, has made a $1 million donation to the university to support the Mary Peace Endowed Scholarship, an endowed fund named for her mother, Mary Peace Sterling, and herself....
Continue ReadingThis holiday season, it’s time for the government to stop dictating the food choices of the poor
Ken Kolb, professor and chair of the sociology department at Furman University, has written an opinion piece for TPM. In it, he argues that nutritional assistance programs like SNAP and WIC do little to foster...
Continue ReadingPushing back on lead ammo and fishing tackle misinformation
Benjamin Haywood, assistant director of the Faculty Development Center at Furman University, was tapped for an article appearing in Environmental Health News. The story describes how organizations like the NRA are waging a misinformation campaign...
Continue ReadingAsha Marie Larson-Baldwin named George J. Mitchell Scholar
The waiting was agonizing for Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin ’22. On the day she would learn whether she had been accepted as one of only 12 class of 2023 George J. Mitchell Scholars, Larson-Baldwin was too...
Continue ReadingKostadinova ’14 lands mention in Merriam-Webster’s
Evdokiya “Eva” Kostadinova ’14 thought it was a joke. A colleague of Kostadinova’s, Dmitri Orlov, an associate research scientist at the University of California San Diego, sent her a link to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for...
Continue ReadingD1 college football player Ryan Deluca came out as gay on Instagram
Fifth year senior Ryan Deluca, a Furman University communication studies major and Paladins wide receiver, came out publicly on Instagram. The reaction on social media and elsewhere caught Deluca by surprise. “Almost every single one...
Continue ReadingSweet dreams are made of this: why dream analysis is flourishing
More REM sleeping hours and fewer alarm clocks during a COVID-19-induced spike in the number of people working from home has contributed to a raft of dream interpreters and online communities dedicated to the same....
Continue ReadingArt in Focus: D’Allesandro’s Pizza mural
When mural painter, funeral home staffer, and bartender Matteo Miles was asked to create art out of a couple of blank walls outside D'Allesandro's Pizza, he needed reinforcements. Enter a crew of Furman University art...
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