{"id":34641,"date":"2024-11-04T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=34641"},"modified":"2024-11-14T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:08:32","slug":"brief-from-the-classroom-to-the-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brief-from-the-classroom-to-the-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief: From the Classroom to the Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Classrooms on Furman University\u2019s campus buzzed<\/strong> with panel discussions, presentations and performances as students shared what they\u2019ve learned in the 16th annual Furman Engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Furman Engaged, held this year on April 12, is set aside to provide students opportunities to present work they\u2019ve accomplished in engaged learning, a hallmark of The Furman Advantage. Internships, research, study away, writing seminars and musical works were all on display.<\/p>\n<p>The topics ranged from business and accounting internships to piano music of Bohemia, the intersectional class resistance in the book \u201cBastard Out of Carolina\u201d (by Greenville native Dorothy Allison) to cryptological warfare. The day wrapped up with the traditional end-of-day celebration followed by the Spring Concert with Teezo Touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur students are inspiring, and Furman Engaged gives them a chance to shine and transcend their positions as students and become experts, sharing their knowledge with the community,\u201d says Beth Pontari, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. \u201cIt\u2019s equally inspiring to see our faculty and staff pour so much into making this happen. The entire day is extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, a record 689 students participated in 724 sessions that took place across campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karolin Miranda M\u201924<\/strong>, a student of the Master of Science in Community Engaged Medicine program, presented research on the underdiagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among Latino children. ASD, a neurological condition affecting communication, learning and behavior, requires early diagnosis for optimal development. Yet, Miranda\u2019s findings reveal that Latino children are diagnosed later than their non-Latino peers, a gap she attributes to educational deficits and various systemic and cultural barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda also spent time at Unity Health on Main, a community center specializing in culturally competent care. \u201cBeing in the clinic gave me insight into what was going on,\u201d she noted. Miranda plans to continue her work at Unity Health while applying to medical school, intending to bring her experience into a future medical practice in family medicine or pediatrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students show what\u2019s possible at Furman. Their work and other festivities continue to create excitement during Furman Engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":34767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3057,3055,1963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-lake-fall-2024","category-fall-2024","category-furman-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35244,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641\/revisions\/35244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}