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Chen excited about her golfing future

Alice Chen '18, a Furman University psychology graduate, is on course to continue a theme she has carried since her high school days in Somerset County, New Jersey. Having posted a 21st-place individual finish at...

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News media usually show immigrants as dangerous criminals

Political science and government alumna Emily Farris '06 has written an article in The Washington Post about how immigrants are depicted in the news media. The article is an offshoot of a study she and...

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$50,000 in scholarships from Osher Foundation benefit adult reentry students

Furman University Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) has received a $50,000 grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation. The grant supports UES Osher Reentry Scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year, enabling nontraditional adult learners (NALs) to continue...

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Colleges replace plastic straws with paper

Before Furman's move to replace plastic straws with paper ones in 2017, the university was tearing through about 22,000 straws per month--a fraction of the 500 million straws used each day in America. University Business...

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Menzer named to board of South Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Furman University English professor Melinda Menzer has been appointed to the board of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust was established by the South Carolina Legislature in...

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Furman installs epinephrine kits

"Twenty-five percent of people who suffer from life-threatening allergies don’t know it, and those who do often engage in risky behavior by not carrying their prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors," reports Cindy Landrum of the Greenville Journal....

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From the lab to the workplace

When it comes to giving students an opportunity to meet with the top executives in their field of study and learn more about what awaits them after graduation, nobody does it better than Furman’s chemistry...

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High tech meets low tech at Furman solar farm

When Furman’s six-acre, $1.7 million solar farm was installed off Poinsett Highway last year, the project turned heads. But it’s likely to get even more attention now that 12 St. Croix sheep have moved in...

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Tonight’s “Lakeside” concert moves to McAlister Auditorium

As Furman celebrates 50 years of its Music by the Lake Concert Series, tonight's concert at 7:30 p.m. will take place in McAlister Auditorium on campus. For the much-anticipated concert, “For New York,” “Rhapsody in Blue” features...

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WCU remembers chancellor and Furman alum David Belcher

David Belcher, a 1979 Furman alumnus and beloved chancellor of Western Carolina University, died Sunday at the age of 60 from brain cancer. A native of Barnwell, South Carolina, Belcher graduated from Furman with a degree...

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