Vincent Harris of Upstate Business Journal (a publication of Community Journals) writes about Greenville, South Carolina, and its growing reputation for attracting venture capital firms. One such firm is North Carolina-based Flywheel Coworking. The company…
Duke, Strobel named to All-SoCon Faculty and Staff…
Associate Athletics Director of Facilities and Game Operations Todd Duke, and Marian Strobel, the William Montgomery Burnett Professor in History, have been named to the All-Southern Conference (SoCon) Faculty and Staff Team. Duke and Strobel…
2020: The Year in Review
Amid the challenges, 2020 also brought us countless moments of joy, discovery and community – from learning and gathering virtually to getting out the vote to giving back. While students realized The Furman Advantage in…
Furman I&E joins City, NEXT in downtown space
In a press conference Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, Furman University President Elizabeth Davis announced that the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) will join the city of Greenville’s economic development team in locating offices in…
Emma Jones ’20 helped her community acknowledge its…
Emma Jones ’20 knew she came from a place steeped in history. But she didn’t know pieces of that history had been left out. “There’s a lot of memorials there,” Jones says of Walker County,…
Paper leads to research partnership for biology professor…
Mark Bazett, director of preclinical development at Bold Therapeutics, didn’t have a problem when he learned that Furman Professor of Biology Pamela Hanson intended to use undergraduates to help with research on his company’s anti-cancer…
Food insecurity in Greenville County
Food insecurity nationwide reached 10.5% in 2019 – and that was before the pandemic. A joint effort among Furman University’s Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, Furman’s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, and LiveWell…
Alabama Rallies To Clip Furman, 83-80
December 15, 2020 Tuscaloosa, Ala. – Alabama took advantage of 21 offensive rebounds to score 24 second chance points as the Crimson Tide rallied to claim an 83-80 victory over Furman in non-conference men’s basketball…
The Christmas Star: Close encounters of the planetary…
Physics Professor and Department Chair David Moffett knows exactly where he’ll be Monday, Dec. 21, around sunset – behind a telescope trained on the southwestern sky. That’s when he and countless others will observe something…