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Child care is broken. Silicon Valley thinks it can fix that, too

Where and how we work has changed dramatically over the last several decades. In response to great cultural and social transformations that affect young children, Furman University alums Brandon Hinman '03 (philosophy), Grady Powell '03...

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Kyra Cox builds stellar golf resume after vowing to help autistic sister

Freshman Women's Golf team member Kyra Cox is featured in a Golfweek article. In it, she describes how her autistic sister, Kaylee, first inspired her to take up the game and now continues to motivate...

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Memory’s surprising role in child death trials

Furman University psychology professor Gil Einstein goes on record in The Crime Report about a form of forgetting that leads to tragic consequences. Einstein and fellow researcher Mark McDaniel say that the act of unintentionally...

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Furman students named Millennium Fellows

Eighteen Furman University students have been named Millennium Fellows through United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network. [caption id="attachment_36756" align="alignright" width="263"] The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is an initiative that aligns institutions...

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Furman a top performer in Sustainable Campus Index

Furman University has been recognized as one of the top 10 overall performers in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index, claiming the seventh spot in the national rankings among baccalaureate institutions. Furman also achieved a top...

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Three-part lecture series to examine immigration issues

The Riley Institute® and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman University will open their StraightTalk Series with “Immigration Enforcement in a Post-9/11 America” Thursday, Aug. 30, 6:30-8 p.m., in Shaw Hall of the...

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AD Buddie rejoins NY Yankees to celebrate ’98 World Series

During the 1998 season for the New York Yankees, Furman University Athletics Director Mike Buddie appeared in 24 games and was credited with four of the 125 wins the Yankees notched on the way to...

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Furman awarded NSF grant to acquire bioimaging system

Furman University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant for the acquisition of a biomolecular fluorescence visualization tool, which will aid the departments of biology and chemistry in studying DNA,...

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Brunch at Soby’s aims to unite diverse Greenville community

[caption id="attachment_36678" align="alignright" width="400"] A S.E.A.T. at the Table has been organized by some of the most recent graduates of the Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative.[/caption] Greenville's first "S.E.A.T. at the Table" pop-up,...

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Chemistry professor Springsteen receives Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Furman Associate Professor of Chemistry Greg Springsteen has been granted a 2018 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. The awards program supports the research and teaching efforts of talented,...

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