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Welcome 2026 Shi Institute Summer Fellows

Summer is here and while that means slowing down for much of campus, the Shi Institute is alive this season with 17 student sustainability fellows. This cohort - representing 13 distinct academic majors and minors, 8...

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Spend Your Summer with Shi

Spend your summer making a real impact with the Shi Institute’s 2026 Summer Sustainability Fellowships. Open to all Furman undergraduates (any major, any year), these 10-week paid fellowships (June 8–August 14) offer hands-on sustainability work...

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Getting Around Campus Sustainably

Coming from a bike-oriented background, steering the Furman University Paladins on Bikes (FUPOB) program seemed like a perfect fit for me. However, taking on the role of Alternative transportation Fellow offered much more than simply...

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Marketing and Sustainability: An Unexpected Duo

  If you asked me a year ago what sustainability looked like, I would have said something about recycling and trees. That is definitely a part of it, but my time at the Shi Institute...

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