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Meet our Shi Institute 2024-25 Fellows

We're excited to introduce nine Shi Institute Student Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year! They're from four different countries (Cameroon, Kazakhstan, Tanzania, USA) with a total of nine different majors. "The passion and innovative ideas...

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Shi Institute, Sustain SC welcome fourth class of SLI Fellows

Sustain SC and The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities at Furman University are thrilled to introduce the 2025 class of Sustainability Leadership Initiative (SLI) fellows. Now entering its fourth year, SLI is a collaborative effort...

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Shi Institute hosts first resilience workshop in Beaufort

This month, in partnership with Beaufort County, the Resilient Cities Catalyst, and the Geos Institute, the Shi Institute hosted the first-ever Climate Ready America Regional Resilience Accelerator Workshop. Since April of this year, Shi Institute...

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Join the Shi Institute for Sustainability Week 2024!

The Shi Institute is excited to announce its first Sustainability Week from September 28 to October 4, 2024. This week-long event will feature a variety of activities, programming and initiatives designed to engage students, faculty,...

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Success Mulbah ’26 combines her love for environmentalism and architecture

My earliest exposure to sustainability and environmental studies began after traveling to Israel at the age of 15 for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program. Curiosity sparked my enrollment in an Environmental Systems and Society (ESS)...

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Planning Fellow Ella Filippo ’26 talks about her work in TR

Home to a vibrant Main Street and the popular Swamp Rabbit Trail, the City of Travelers Rest is a testament to the value of thoughtful, sustainability-oriented planning. I am very grateful to have spent the...

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Travel to Wild Hope Farm with Kate Johnston ’26!

Embarking on a transformative journey this summer, I've had the privilege of cultivating both crops and personal growth at an organic farm nestled in rural Chester, SC. I’m Kate Johnston and this summer I have...

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Summer fun at the Furman Farm with Kevin Amon ’26 and Anna Jones ’27

50 garden rows. 22 box beds. 10 weeks. This is what we, Kevin Amon (Assistant Compost Manager) and Anna Jones (Assistant Farm Manager), were given this summer. Alongside our team of four, we run the...

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Bringing two passions together at Trueline GVL: Andres Ospina ’24

Community building, entertainment and artistic outlets for many. These are just some of the few benefits and aspects that make music one of the oldest and most enjoyed forms of art around the globe. From...

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Aruzhan Sakhariyanova ’26 shares her work as a sustainability advocate

From the camera lens to your screen, I deliver sustainability-related content. Since a young age, I have been captivated by filmography and digital production so I began taking pictures of nature and practicing videography and...

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Aubin Vertueux Dzossa Bontse ’27 talks climate resilience

For several years now, the Shi Institute’s Applied Research team has been diligently working on a variety of resilience-building initiatives in South Carolina. This team has recently taken on multiple projects to assist communities that...

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Luke Anderson ’26: Doing good at Sustaining Way

When considering at sustainability solutions to combat climate change, environmental injustice and inequity, the place to find answers is not so clear. Throughout my studies at Furman, I have always thought that entities with the...

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