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One Show Closer to the Big Leagues

Typically, the production of a play begins when the cast and crew first sit down with a script. But a new partnership is taking Furman students deeper into the process — all the way back...

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A Dictionary for Your Ears

Sure, you could watch steak sizzling in a pan or ravens communicating in the wild – but those moments come alive when you experience them with your ears, not just your eyes. This past spring...

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Research Report

Ansley Ulmer ’18 is going to Hawaii the week before graduation. But she’s not getting an early start on celebrating. Ulmer is traveling to present at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in...

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Pursuing justice

Law school was little more than an idea four years ago. But last month, Mary Frances Dennis ’18 accepted an offer – and a significant merit scholarship – from the University of Georgia School of...

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Creativity on Display

You are more likely to be thinking of thread than clay when you approach Hanna Vogel’s art. Vogel, a sculptor, is an artist in residence at Furman for six weeks this spring. In a studio...

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The Answer to Success

Anne-Claire Pittman ’18 has been asking tough questions since her first days at Furman. In her pursuit of answers, she tapped into countless university resources, using everything she gathered to shape her career plans and...

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Truth and reconciliation

Truth is the only road to genuine racial reconciliation, Nontombi Naomi Tutu said Friday. And then she laid some ground rules: Truth with ourselves, truth with the community and truth with the next generation. “We...

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The bigger picture

Working in Africa on healthcare policy gave Katharine Olson ’18 a more comprehensive understanding of the world she hopes to enter from the medical side. “And it really solidified that I have a very big...

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A synthesis of math and science

Two Furman seniors were honored this summer for their work in mathematics, but the road there wasn’t just about equations. They applied math to a biology problem and employed computer modeling to test their theories...

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An essential to understanding

As students enter the room, a Middle Eastern song popular in the ’90s is playing on YouTube and the teacher is writing on the board—from right to left. This is Furman’s first Arabic class, focusing...

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