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Office of Diversity and Inclusion awards nine grants

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion has selected nine initiatives to receive funding in the form of mini grants. Chosen from among 26 grant applications, the grantees include: Devon Anker (Advisor, Jewish Student Association, Office...

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Two awards, many partners for a healthier Greenville

Greenville has won two awards that aim to improve the health of its residents, and Furman University’s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) is one of the partners that will play a key...

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Class of 2019 Millennium Fellows graduate

[caption id="attachment_36756" align="alignright" width="263"] Six Furman students have graduated in the 2019 Class of Millennium Fellows. The Millennium Fellowship is a program of the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network.[/caption] Six Furman...

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Furman graduates recognized at reception

Furman University graduated nearly 30 students in December as the newest members of the class of 2019. While most of the newly minted graduates will likely walk at formal commencement in spring 2020, a small...

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Sam Wyche, former Cincinnati Bengals coach, dies at 74

Following the passing of former Furman University Paladin Football quarterback Sam Wyche '66, CNN remembers the NFL coach who famously reminded Bengals fans that they 'don't live in Cleveland' pursuant to a rain of snowballs...

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Davis among ’50 Most Influential’

Each year, Greenville Business Magazine publishes its list of the "50 Most Influential." For the sixth consecutive year, Furman University President Elizabeth Davis appears on the list. Also counted among Greenville's most influential for 2019...

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David Steinour receives SC CIO award

In fall last year, Integrated Media Publishing and AcumenIT announced the recipients of the 2019 SC CIO Awards recognizing outstanding South Carolina-based information technology executives. Among the eight honorees, Furman University's Chief Information Officer David...

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Mentoring program: Key to addressing teacher retention

Erikah Haavie in Furman's Department of Education contributes an article in Greenville Business Magazine about how the university prepares teacher candidates and supports early career educators. Among the strategies employed to stem low retention rates...

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Briggs v. Elliott and its legacy in South Carolina

Delia B. Allen, a research associate at Furman's Riley Institute, has published a paper in the Peabody Journal of Education. She examines the underpinnings of the more familiar 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in...

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Transforming land for broader agroforestry benefits

Researchers at Furman University, through a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grant, studied the feasibility of transforming forested land on farms in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia into silvopasture systems. Silvopasture is a...

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