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Turgeon receives grant to study spinal cord injury

Furman biology professor Dr. Victoria Turgeon has been awarded a grant from the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund. With the two-year, nearly $80,000 grant, Turgeon will study factors which impede neuronal cell growth following...

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Charleston organist Ludlum retires

After 35 years as Organist and Director of Music at the historic St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C., W. Douglas Ludlum is stepping down. The 73-year-old stalwart graduated Furman in 1965, then went on...

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Organist Caroline Robinson in concert Feb. 11

Furman University will present a concert featuring Greenville native and emerging young star organist Caroline Robinson Thursday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel on campus. The recital is open to the public and...

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Riley Institute’s Riley and Gordon earn high marks

Dick Riley and Don Gordon of the Riley Institute at Furman have been named among the Top Ten SC Leaders in 2015 by Alan Cooper, Publisher of MidlandsBiz. The two achieved the distinction for the...

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Faculty members present chamber music Jan. 15

The Furman Faculty Chamber Music Series will present a concert Friday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus. The event is open to the public, and is part of Furman’s Sound Quality...

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Tompkins presents organ recital Jan. 21

Furman University will present a concert featuring faculty member and University Organist Charles Tompkins Thursday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel. Part of Furman’s annual Church Music Conference, the recital is open to...

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Furman’s Malici calls for reason over rhetoric and fear-mongering

Furman University political science professor Dr. Akan Malici offers another opinion piece in the Greenville News—his third in as many months. In it, he notes the consequences of succumbing to the barrage of media hype...

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Faculty, staff receive grants from ACS

Nine Furman faculty and staff members have received grants from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), an organization serving 16 nationally ranked liberal arts institutions. ACS Faculty Development Grants are funded by the Mellon Foundation...

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Malici: We must starve “clash of civilizations” narrative

While sensational and headline-grabbing, political rhetoric directed at Muslims “plays into the hands of terrorist propaganda that America is at war with Islam,” says Furman University Political Science Professor Akan Malici. He describes how feeding...

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Mixed media art exhibition to open Jan. 11

Mixed media art by Mollie Oblinger, Associate Professor of Art at Ripon College (Wis.), will be on display in Thompson Gallery, Roe Art Building, Jan. 11-Feb. 10. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. A...

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