University will partner with global analytics firm Gallup to study the impact of the university’s undergraduate experience and measure the effectiveness of The Furman Advantage.
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Two Furman students and recipients of the James B. Duke Scholarship are profiled: Senior McKenna Luzynski '18 and freshman Max Dudley '21.
Arianna Shirk ’02 followed her calling to Africa, where she now serves as an emergency pediatric physician in AIC Kijabi Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
The Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) will allow students and faculty to be more strategically involved in the work of community organizations devoted to supporting healthier lifestyles.
The new strategic vision, which will transform the student experience, combines a liberal arts education with immersive experiences outside the classroom.
Furman student Sarah Saba writes about her 10-week internship in New York City and how it changed her life.
The Medicine Program provides students an opportunity to examine difficult moral questions through academic classes and unmatched undergraduate access to doctors, patients, and treatment facilities.
The inaugural Student Advocate of the Year award was presented to Kjersti Kleine '17 at a conference in Washington, D.C.
Furman has received a $22.3 million grant from The Duke Endowment to strengthen and support one of the University’s premier merit scholarship programs. The grant includes $22 million for the University’s endowment to augment Furman’s James B. Duke Scholarship program, which provides full-tuition scholarships to students who display “exceptional academic achievement and distinctive personal accomplishment.” The remaining $300,000 is operational funding that will support the University’s ongoing initiatives to enhance the Duke Scholars’ academic experiences.
Anyone who develops a shortcut for calculus should be awarded a Nobel Prize. But Furman biology and chemistry double major John Dickson will have to settle for an M.D.-Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School. The 2006 Furman graduate from Gaffney, S.C. received a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in 2013 from the Ivy League […]