{"id":8523,"date":"2020-01-09T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/09\/millennium-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:06","slug":"millennium-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/millennium-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2019 Millennium Fellows graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36756\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36756\" class=\"wp-image-36756 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/unai-logo-sized.jpg\" alt=\"millennium fellowship\" width=\"263\" height=\"450\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 263px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 263\/450;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six Furman students have graduated in the 2019 Class of Millennium Fellows. The Millennium Fellowship is a program of the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Six Furman University students selected in August for the 2019 class of Millennium Fellows have graduated the semester-long program. <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">The Millennium Fellowship, presented by the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network, convenes, challenges, and celebrates student leadership for the 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\">UN Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over 7,000 young leaders applied for the program from over 1,200 campuses across 135 nations. Only 69 campuses worldwide have been selected to host 1,092 Millennium Fellows in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Furman participants and other student leaders have been part of a movement positively impacting the lives of nearly one million people in 16 nations. Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2019 include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samantha Bernacki, \u201920, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Eileen Joseph, \u201920, Falls Church, Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Anna Justice, \u201922, Colorado Springs, Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Lippert, \u201920, Columbia, South Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Sarah McLean, \u201920, Winston-Salem, North Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Kristin Nauman, \u201922, Salem, South Carolina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millenniumfellows.org\/\">Millennium Fellowship<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Furman University students selected in August for the 2019 class of Millennium Fellows have graduated the semester-long program. 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