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Area teens named Emerging Public Leaders
The Riley Institute at Furman University has announced its 2015-16 class of Emerging Public Leaders (EPL). Launched in 2002 by the Riley Institute, Emerging Public Leaders is an intensive, statewide service-oriented leadership program for rising...
Continue ReadingBridges to a Brighter Future students enroll in college
Twenty Greenville County high school graduates and participants in Furman University’s Bridges to a Brighter Future will enroll in college. Nearly all the graduates will be enrolling as first-generation college students. Program director Pam Davis says, “The beauty...
Continue ReadingMeet the new Bridges students
Twenty-seven Greenville County high school students have been invited to participate in Furman University’s Bridges to a Brighter Future, a program whose mission is to give students the tools and support they need to overcome...
Continue ReadingCheck out the Lakeside Summer Concert Series
Furman's Music by the Lake Summer Concert Series, a Greenville tradition since 1968, opened Thursday, May 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the university’s amphitheater. Celebrating the “Sounds of Summer,” the Lakeside Concert Band, under the...
Continue ReadingOLLI accepting applications for Senior Leaders Greenville
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman is accepting applications for Senior Leaders Greenville through July 1. Launched in 2013, Senior Leaders Greenville is a program designed for adults 55 and up to build awareness...
Continue ReadingWomen’s Leadership Institute graduates 33
Furman University’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development has announced that 33 members of its inaugural class of the Women’s Leadership Institute have graduated.
Continue ReadingJustice, equity, and politics
Coleman Allums ’14 was set to prepare his third and final go-around for a highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship when he learned he won an award in recent weeks. “I knew how competitive this source...
Continue ReadingA presidential appointment
When Sustainability Science/Spanish major Michael Robinson ’16 received an internship in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Energy and Climate Change, he thought he’d be in for a fair amount of administrative duties....
Continue ReadingHistory, Asian studies professor publishes new book
Furman University Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies Wendy Matsumura, Ph.D., has published a new book about Okinawa. "The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community" is published by Duke...
Continue ReadingA little bird told me
[caption id="attachment_17920" align="alignright" width="600"] Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com[/caption] The degree to which we humans can adapt to noise is many and varied. Let’s say we live in a quiet neighborhood where the only sounds we...
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