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Balancing act

In Humanities, the flagship magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Furman University professors Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey seek to give meaning to the popular but elusive "balanced life" ideal, and suggest...

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Jamarcus Gaston

He aspired to be a high school band director when he started his career at Furman University. But Jamarcus Gaston '07, a music and communication studies alumnus, had a change of heart. Now he's co-host...

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Authors and academics take a look at the evolution of Philadelphia, MS

"Confederate Reckoning," a collaborative series from the USA TODAY Network and newsrooms spanning the South, explores the legacy of the Confederacy, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era and their influence on communities today. Furman University's...

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A passage way is opening into the world of dreams

Researchers have long pondered the liminal space between wakefulness and dreaming. A new study out of Northwestern University about lucid dreaming has captured the attention of The Boston Globe. Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon in...

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A Guy’s Guy: Edmund White in the 1950s

Furman University's Nick Radel, an English professor, offers a glimpse into his upcoming biography of Edmund White, one of America's most renowned gay writers. In Los Angeles Review of Books, Radel describes the uncommon allyship...

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Lillian Brock Flemming celebrates 40 years on Greenville City Council

One of the first Black women to enroll at Furman University, Lillian Brock Flemming '71, M'75, H'14 has enjoyed a front-row seat for witnessing decades of change in Greenville, South Carolina. Now celebrating 40 years...

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Legalized marijuana and the SC governor’s race

Could a campaign built on legalizing marijuana entice South Carolina Republicans and Independents to vote for gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham, a Democrat? Nigel Robertson of WYFF News4 spoke to Brent Nelsen, a professor of politics...

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9 ways to cure (and prevent) shin splints

[caption id="attachment_49182" align="alignright" width="200"] Bill Pierce[/caption] Former Furman health sciences professor Bill Pierce has words of advice when it comes to annoying and painful shin splints. The veteran running coach and co-author of "Run Less,...

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Carmel sculptor Steven Whyte awarded grant for body of work

He is known in Furman University circles as the sculptor behind the Joseph A. Vaughn statue that now resides in the same-named plaza in front of the James B. Duke Library on campus. But Steven...

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More than 200 public US colleges are requiring COVID vaccines. In SC, that’s illegal.

Wofford College and Furman University are the only colleges in South Carolina mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for students enrolling for fall classes. For state-supported institutions, there is no such requirement despite the American College Health Association's...

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