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Advocacy, policy draw Flores to Capitol Hill
Kenia Flores ’20 got the feeling every time she walked into work at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. “It’s a feeling of awe and passion and inspiration,” she said. Flores recently completed...
Continue ReadingAdvocacy, policy draw Flores to Capitol Hill
Kenia Flores ’20 got the feeling every time she walked into work at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. “It’s a feeling of awe and passion and inspiration,” she said. Flores recently completed...
Continue ReadingResearchers uncover local history through Max Heller’s papers in Special Collections
Two Greenville natives are digging into their hometown’s history this summer, and Max Heller’s papers, held in Furman’s Special Collections and Archives, will be central to their work. Andrew Baker, a Ph.D. candidate at Auburn...
Continue ReadingStudent actors participate in unique creative collaboration
Shakespeare isn’t available for questions about Hamlet’s lines — but a different playwright, Kimberly Belflower, anticipates a “lovely exchange” with student actors at Furman. “Most of them have never worked with a living playwright before,”...
Continue ReadingReport reveals optimism, challenges of Hispanic community
A two-year study by the Hispanic Alliance and Furman University has produced a detailed, hopeful picture of the lives of Hispanics in the Upstate. The report, “Hispanics in Greenville,” uses data collected through interviews with...
Continue ReadingTEDxFurmanU speakers explore chronic illness, female empowerment
Nomonde Gila ’19 spoke to educate others — but being part of TEDxFurmanU 2019 was an education for her, too. Gila, who is South African, sought to inform Americans about the millions of young African...
Continue ReadingInternship With A Mentorship
Furman’s Washington Internship Program got an update this year–a personal touch. The program, created in the late 1970s, places students in internships for 30 to 35 hours a week. They fill the rest of their...
Continue ReadingSeats at the Supreme Court
Twenty Furman students visited the U.S. Supreme Court this fall—but while 18 of them took a tour, the other two had seats in chambers for oral arguments before the court. The tour was part of...
Continue ReadingHosting opportunities
Wall Street may not visit the Upstate in search of employees. So Furman made a way for those potential employees to drop in on Wall Street. The university’s new Paladin Career Treks Program gives students...
Continue ReadingEnvironmental Portrait
Pictures may be worth a thousand words sometimes, but the two shared equal billing for students conducting thesis research in Costa Rica this summer. Using photography and interviews, Celia Castellano ’19 and Sophia Pessagno ’19...
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