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DeCesaris joins NASA from Missile Defense Agency

Paula Khoe DeCesaris has been appointed deputy director of the Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Department in the Engineering Directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (a.k.a. Rocket City). The 1996 Furman University physics...

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Black History Month: Head Coach Jackie Carson

As part of FOX Carolina's tribute to Black History Month, Jackie Smith Carson '00, Women's Basketball standout and Furman's first Black female head coach, takes the spotlight. In an online interview with news anchor Victoria...

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5 cool measurement tools for quantifying regenerative agriculture

How are bird populations and sustainable agriculture related? Furman University's John Quinn, a biology professor, is working with General Mills to categorize and identify individual birds in thousands of hours of recordings captured by field...

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Jim Smart Award spotlights excellence in vocational reflection, exploration

Fostering vocational exploration and reflection among students at a university might appear to be a fairly obvious and expected role of educators and mentors alike. But what if that gift of investing in students’ futures...

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Furman scores No. 5 position in CPA exam pass rates for midsize programs

In a rating method that looks at how well students progress toward completing all four parts of the Certified Public Accountant exam, Furman University comes in at No. 5 among mid-sized university accounting programs across...

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A special delivery on Valentine’s Day

COVID-19 may have derailed this year's traditional Valentine’s Day Dance for Exceptional Adults hosted annually by Furman’s Heller Service Corps, but it didn’t stop student members of the service organization from showing kindness to the...

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Furman students surprise special needs adults with bags full of love

[caption id="attachment_49075" align="alignright" width="400"] Student members of the Heller Service Corps stuff goodie bags for members of the special adult community.[/caption] For the last 15 years, Heller Service Corps at Furman University has hosted its...

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Herman Lay, who built Lay’s potato chips, on HISTORY Channel

[caption id="attachment_49057" align="alignright" width="276"] Herman W. Lay[/caption] Herman W. Lay (1909-1982) attended Furman University on an athletics scholarship in the late 20s, but left after two years to pursue his entrepreneurial leanings. The snack food...

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Black History Month: Furman University’s Dr. Cynthia King

FOX Carolina shines a light on Furman University's Cynthia King during Black History Month. King, the first Black faculty member to chair a department at the university, speaks to a reporter outside Furman gates about...

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A picture’s worth a thousand words

Furman University's iconic bell tower is featured in the SC Picture Project, as reported by GVL Today. The photo is part of a digital repository of 2,300 South Carolina landmarks that are searchable by city,...

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