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Trent Stubbs ’20, Professor Greg Springsteen published in Nature Chemistry

The large majority of scientists end long and successful careers with their names never appearing on a paper published by Nature Chemistry. The number who did it while an undergraduate? Well, let’s just say Trent...

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Furman trustee Yendelela Neely Holston ’03 honored nationally for fostering legal talent

[caption id="attachment_47333" align="alignright" width="400"] Yendelela Neely Holston, a 2003 Furman graduate and board secretary of the Furman Board of Trustees.[/caption] Yendelela Neely Holston, a 2003 Furman graduate and board secretary of the Furman Board of...

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Panel discussion focuses on book about first photos of enslaved people

The pictures are captivating. Seven enslaved Black men and women look into a camera lens as they are forced to pose, mostly nude, by biologist Louis Agassiz in his quest to find evidence to support...

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Furman awarded $1.2 million for biomedical research

New biomedical research awards put Furman students and faculty on the leading edge of work that ripples far beyond its campus. With the goal of increasing biomedical research capacity in states where it is most...

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Furman moves up in WSJ/THE rankings

Furman University moved up 13 spots in the Best Colleges 2021 rankings released this week by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education. The rankings place Furman as the top college or university in...

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Dins Vote working to keep student voting on an upward trajectory

The good news for incoming Dins Vote student leader Erica Daly ’22 is that she’s inheriting a campus culture that has increasingly embraced election participation. The bad news is Furman still has a ways to...

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Furman awarded two NSF grants totaling $720,000

The National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program provides funding for equipment and infrastructure for labs across the country, and rarely does it issue two awards to the same university in the same year. But...

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Furman awarded Diversity & Inclusion Grant by Associated Colleges of the South

Furman has been awarded a collaborative Diversity and Inclusion Grant by the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), marking a significant step toward the university’s goal of creating an inclusive campus environment. “It's super exciting,...

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Entrepreneurship-In-Residence Program expands to increase mentor diversity

Innovation is, by definition, the introduction of something new. To Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship Executive Director Anthony Herrera, that means providing students that his office serves with mentors who are as diverse as they are....

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FIRST EVER VIRTUAL #FURMANATHOME HOMECOMING STARTS MID-OCTOBER FOR ALUMNI

Editor's note: The campus community, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, received the following message on Sept. 10. Homecoming weekend is traditionally a special time for Furman alumni to return to Greenville and for the...

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