alumni

Alum Stephen O’Day joins Southern Environmental Law Center

The Southern Environmental Law Center has announced that Stephen O’Day, a 1976 Furman graduate, has been named chairman of the organization’s Board of Trustees. O’Day, who majored in political science at Furman and earned his...

Continue Reading

Furman alum Matthew Lassiter writes op-ed for New York Times

Matthew Lassiter, a 1992 Furman graduate who teaches history at the University of Michigan, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about America’s “great silent majority.” Lassiter graduated from Furman with a degree in...

Continue Reading

Alumnus Lassiter writes New York Times op-ed

Matthew Lassiter, a 1992 Furman graduate who teaches history at the University of Michigan, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about America’s “great silent majority.” Lassiter graduated from Furman with a degree in...

Continue Reading

Furman alum profiled in Research Magazine

Before he became a major player in the financial services arena and manager of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s seven-branch complex in Los Angeles, Greg Laetsch was a Furman student and captain of the Paladin football...

Continue Reading

UCM President Ambrose enjoys inaugural day

Chuck Ambrose, a 1983 Furman graduate, was officially installed as the 15th president of the University of Central Missouri on Oct. 6.  A four-year letterman and captain of the soccer team while a student at...

Continue Reading

Buckley ’03 safeguards film and history at NGS

by Tina T. Underwood A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes.  And moving pictures add even more dimension to a story. Indeed, how would our view of history change if we...

Continue Reading

Karen Buckley safeguards film and history at NGS

A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes.  And moving pictures add even more dimension to a story. Indeed, how would our view of history change if we had only still images...

Continue Reading

Touting the value of college

Richard W. Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate and the former U.S. Secretary of Education under President Clinton, writes an op-ed for The State newspaper about the value of college. He writes it’s ironic that “people...

Continue Reading

In the heat of battle against COVID-19

[caption id="attachment_45499" align="alignright" width="400"] Sue Shugart '88 with colleagues on the night shift at KershawHealth. The hospital had one of South Carolina's first two COVID-19 patients, and the town of Camden became the first area...

Continue Reading