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A FUEL fit for every body

It’s not easy to fuel your body properly when your primary food source is through donations. But it’s also not impossible—and Furman’s Sarah Mixon is helping people learn how. Mixon ’18 completed an independent study...

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May X takes the field

Baseball’s the all-American game. But it’s also an intricate microcosm of economics, history and geography—just the thing for summer study. Two of Furman’s 2017 May X classes used baseball to explore broader academic themes: The...

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Team of believers

Madison Ritter ’17 spent the summer before her senior year in Memphis, participating in research at the University of Tennessee and clinical observation at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It was a dream come true—and...

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Partners for a healthier Greenville

In her first week on the job, Mary Frances Dennis ’18 was sitting with a physician and an administrative assistant, helping them complete an affidavit that would allow a patient’s case to proceed to court....

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Ready for the world

Furman University prepared Alice Williams ’15 for life in Asia. And now, life in Asia is preparing her for anything. Williams is serving with the Peace Corps in Timor-Leste. The country was formed in 2002,...

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An Enterprise Built with Bread

Markey Culver ’08 doesn’t tell the story you expect. “I had zero interest in going to Africa,” Culver said. But she did go. And within a few years of setting foot on the continent, she...

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Words for Life

Col. Eric Schwartz ended his recent talk at Furman with this wide-ranging collection of advice. Decide what you stand for before you decide what you want to be. Take bold chances and risks—plan for failure,...

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Professor Jim Guth Discusses Election Night 2016

Voters made a call Tuesday that has been building for years when they chose to give the highest office in the land to a candidate without political or administrative experience, said Dr. Jim Guth, the...

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Come home to Furman

It’s time to reconnect—to professors, to roommates, to campus and even to Greenville itself, which may be a far cry from what it was the last time you saw it. Furman University’s Homecoming 2016 is...

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Filling empty bowls

Two little girls stared at Emily McPeters ’18, who was barefoot, her hair tucked into a colorful scarf, a pale gray coating covering her arms to her elbows. “You’re going to be covered in it...

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