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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,...

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FUEL 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,...

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Students 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...

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Always 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...

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Climate 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,...

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A 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...

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Film 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...

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Reaching 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...

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Looking 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...

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Dr. 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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