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State superintendent of education speaks at Furman
“Know your students and make that heart connection with them,” State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman told senior education majors at Furman University last week. Spearman was the guest speaker for the 2015 Teaching Banquet,...
Continue ReadingFUEL Furman Fundraising Concludes
The third year of FUEL Furman: Ignite the Fire, Fuel the Future officially concluded on April 3. Nearly 80 donors participated with gifts ranging from $5 to $1,000. In total, supporters gave close to $8,500,...
Continue ReadingStudents to attend SSCA honors conference
Seventeen Furman University students have been selected to attend the Southern States Communication Association’s 25th Annual Theodore Clevenger Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference April 8-12 in Tampa, Fla. Caroline Walters ’15 (Moral Rhetoric and the Humanitarian...
Continue ReadingAlways the teacher
When their curious young son went “missing,” the Charles Brewer's parents always knew where to look. He might be playing ball with some of the neighborhood kids. But more than likely, the four-year-old was attending...
Continue ReadingClimate change: It’s not all bad news
Rising sea levels, severe weather patterns, record breaking temperatures… it’s a constant refrain from climate change experts around the world. But it isn’t all bad news. In Monday’s lecture titled “Climate Change,” Tripp Van Noppen,...
Continue ReadingA survivor of Rwanda
At the start of April each year, Jonathan Kubakundimana gets a familiar feeling of sadness in the pit of his stomach. The feeling has descended on the 21-year-old Furman student and Rwanda native each year...
Continue ReadingFilm festival explores the realities of China’s environmental crisis
High on a hillside in southwest China, a handful of elderly residents cry out, pleading for the protection of the mountains, trees, and streams around them. For many generations, protecting their environment has been a...
Continue ReadingReaching out to grandmothers
When Furman student Christina Sturgeon met Ginny Simmons in an elevator at The Woodlands, a nearby retirement community, you could say it was a grandmother-granddaughter connection at first sight. That was the start of their...
Continue ReadingLooking back on moving forward
Two Furman University alumni and a retired faculty member who were at the school during the time it was desegregated by Greenville native Joseph Vaughn told the story of that event and the years...
Continue ReadingDr. James McGaugh discusses the keys to memory
Dr. James L. McGaugh, a Research Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior in the School of Biological Sciences and Fellow at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine,...
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