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Furman extends downtown Greenville footprint to One City Plaza

Furman is expanding its downtown presence – and planning one of the school’s greatest investments in the Greenville community – with the addition of a 2,000-square-foot space on the ground floor of 101 N. Main...

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PHOTO GALLERY: The 2021-22 academic year opens with inspiration and new friends

Welcome back, students! The new academic year began with Opening Convocation at McAlister Auditorium and a lunch on the mall, an orientation carnival to welcome our 667 first-year students and 20 transfer students, and on Tuesday, the...

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Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies major offers insight into ‘a gendered world’

On Aug. 26, 1971, Women’s Equality Day was celebrated for the first time to commemorate the anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment and women’s suffrage in 1920. Fifty years later, Furman’s Women’s, Gender...

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Convocation launches a school year of dedication, discovery and determination

Ready to “underscore the purpose and expectations of academic life at our university, and to honor those among us whose achievements inspire us,” Furman President Elizabeth Davis launched the 2021-2022 academic year with the Opening...

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PHOTO GALLERY: Welcome, students!

Students moved in this week, surrounded by family, friends and Orientation Team members, in preparation for the beginning of the school year on Tuesday. About 850 students arrived early or were here for Summer Session 2,...

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‘How did we get here?’: StraightTalk series examines structural racism

Each year since 2011, The Riley Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman – joined recently by South Carolina ETV – have collaborated to present a public discussion of timely issues for the...

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Are some people born lucky? A UT psychologist argues inequality’s genetic roots

[caption id="attachment_51502" align="alignright" width="329"] Harden's book is available September 2021.[/caption] Kathryn Paige Harden, a 2003 Furman University psychology alumna, has written a new book, "The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality" (Princeton University...

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‘Everything worth having takes a while’

The upcoming school year will be unprecedented for Furman’s Student Government Association for a couple of reasons. For one, the president-elect could not have even run last year, due to a constitutional hurdle. For another,...

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Stacy Capers ’18 knows the sound of success

Stacy Capers '18 will travel to Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, Aug. 15, to record a music video with singer-songwriter and producer Charlie Puth and the other three winners of a music contest. Capers' entry was...

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Summer Commencement set for Aug. 14

John M. Harris ’91, professor of mathematics, will deliver the address at Furman’s Summer Commencement ceremony scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 14, at 4 p.m. in Charles E. Daniel Memorial Chapel. The university will award approximately...

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