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Dean’s List for 2015 fall term

Here are the students who made the Dean’s List for the 2015 fall term. The honor is awarded to full-time undergraduates who earn a grade point average of at least 3.4 during the university’s fall...

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Governor Haley, Mayor Riley sit down for candid discussion in Riley Institute video

On Jan. 12 in Columbia, Furman’s Riley Institute honored the memory of the late South Carolina Senator Clementa Pinckney, who was among the nine people killed this past June in the shootings at Mother Emanuel...

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Setting sail to study one of Earth’s last coral wildernesses

Sam Hill ’16 didn’t see as many neighbors as he’d hoped during his 1,600-mile summer sailing trip. “From Hawaii to the equator, there was nothing but a turtle and a pod of whales,” said Hill,...

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Breaking boundaries and bettering lives

Just three months after she graduated with a double major in political science and Spanish and a double minor in poverty studies and Latin American studies, Cassandra “Cassie” Chee ’15 arrived in Las Cruces, New...

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Biology majors gain national recognition for T-cell research

The accolades keep coming for the Furman biology department’s ground-breaking research into the chemical processes behind T-cell activation. Early in the summer, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) sent a video team to campus to document...

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Shucker Fellows organize lecture series for retirees

  Because of the retirement community’s partnership with nearby Furman, residents of The Woodlands at Furman have access to many unique opportunities. There is no better example than a lecture series organized last fall by...

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Life through the lens of Army photojournalist Mike MacLeod

“When you’re a writer, life’s a smorgasbord,” says Mike MacLeod ’89. From tracking grey wolves in Montana, to starting his own magazine, to serving the United States Army, to writing a memoir about his time in the Middle...

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What’s Going On with the Trees on Campus?

As the Furman community returns to campus for the spring semester, people will notice that many of the large trees around the James B. Duke Library have been removed and replaced with younger, smaller trees. ...

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Furman senior Chris Drose named to Forbes “30 Under 30”

When Chris Drose isn’t taking classes and finishing up his senior year at Furman, he enjoys researching companies and trying to determine the true value of their stock prices. It’s not only a talent that...

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Laura Morris joins English Department faculty

Laura Morris, Ph.D., wasn’t filling just any opening when she was hired over the summer as Furman’s newest English professor. “Everybody here has been calling me the new Gil Allen,” she said. “Some pretty big...

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