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Funding local ventures + a new West End eatery
The everything Greenville platform, GVL Today, spotlights the city's first #StartupGVL event, which took place in recent weeks. Among the organizations hosting incubator events was The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the brains behind...
Continue ReadingKrista Just to be Furman ROTC’s first-ever woman U.S. Army infantry officer
Local media sources picked up the news about Furman University's first woman ROTC cadet to commission as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. Krista Just '22, a Furman biology major from Pickens, South Carolina,...
Continue ReadingJust the first for women in Furman ROTC
Furman University Army ROTC cadets wake at zero dark thirty for hour-long physical fitness drills three times a week. They take a three-hour, hands-on tactical lab once a week, march six to 12 miles with...
Continue ReadingState nixed safety plan for ‘dangerous’ White Horse Road over funding
In a Greenville News story about the danger White Horse Road poses to pedestrians in Greenville, South Carolina, the work of Furman University senior Loise Aleria is cited. Aleria, a politics and international affairs major,...
Continue ReadingFour easy weekend trips just across the Georgia state line
A group of intrepid Atlanta Magazine journalists venture to four destinations within easy driving distance of Atlanta, including Furman University's hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. The excursion highlights Greenville's food and craft beer scene and...
Continue ReadingNCAA Tournament brackets: Strength in numbers
For the past nine years, three Furman University mathematics professors, Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson, have built a reputation as national experts on predicting upsets in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. They work...
Continue ReadingA letter from Poland: A Chicago native gives a Ukrainian woman shelter while war rages
John Banka, a 1977 Furman University urban studies alumnus who works in Warsaw, has a front-row seat to the scene unfolding in Ukraine and the flood of refugees into Poland the Russia attack has spawned....
Continue ReadingInterview with Dr. Kenneth Kolb, sociology professor and author of ‘Retail Inequality’
[caption id="attachment_52348" align="alignright" width="200"] Kolb's book was released in December 2021.[/caption] Ken Kolb, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Furman University, goes on record about the country's "exclusionary" food economy in an...
Continue ReadingFurman’s Hartness Organ Series presents free concert on March 17
Furman University alumnus Jamarcus Gaston '07 (music and communication studies), host of "Your Carolina," paid a visit to his alma mater to get a preview of Charles Tompkins' upcoming recital, which takes place Thursday, March...
Continue ReadingThe horrors of war: Tending peace, sending support for Ukraine
In a piece she contributed to the Tallahassee Democrat, Candace (Carter) McKibben '77 reflects on the "heartbreak and violence of war" from reading about it during her freshman year at Furman University, to 9/11 and...
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