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Running for change
Sydney Beason’s Instagram feed, @sydneystrides, shows just how much this 2022 Furman grad is on the move. One day she’s dipping the toe of her running shoe into Baltimore Harbor, the next she’s crossing from...
Continue ReadingPride is personal and political for alumnus Tensley
Brandon Tensley '12, a national political writer for CNN Politics, has covered LGBTQ issues as a journalist for years. He recently wrote about ways people can learn more about Pride, so we asked him to...
Continue ReadingAlumnus pens essay for The New York Times
Brian Highsmith '10, a senior researcher at Yale Law School's Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and a tax policy advisor on President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, authored a guest essay in The...
Continue ReadingFurman proclaims April 17 ‘Tommy Stevenson Day’
In honor and in gratitude of one of its most beloved graduates, Furman University’s Board of Trustees has proclaimed April 17, 2021, as “Tommy Stevenson Day.” Stevenson ‘65, the long-time proprietor of Greenville’s famed Country...
Continue ReadingTaking inequities to heart
[caption id="attachment_49221" align="alignright" width="300"] Jason Williams '09, a pediatric cardiologist, is completing an advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging fellowship this year.[/caption] Many studies have shown that Black children in the United States born with congenital heart...
Continue Reading‘I Belong Here’ at the top of gospel music charts
He’s recorded with music royalty like Quincy Jones, been to the Grammy Awards, and even played at the famed Apollo Theater in New York. [caption id="attachment_49170" align="alignright" width="265"] The gospel song "I Belong Here" has...
Continue ReadingComputer pioneer Brad Cox ’65 passes away
Many of us have to look no further than the palms of our hands to realize the impact Brad Cox ’65 made on the world. In the early 1980s, Cox, a Renaissance man who grew...
Continue ReadingStudent weighs in on China, U.S. foreign aid policies
Which country has a better foreign aid policy – the United States or China? Furman alumnus Davis Cousar ’20 pondered the question for some time before deciding he would tackle it as his senior research...
Continue ReadingFurman Innovation, Entrepreneurship gains global recognition
Furman University’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been named an Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, a group of more than 250 universities. Other recipients of the award were...
Continue ReadingFurman responds to Black alumni petition
In the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other Black Americans, people of color who are members of the Furman family have shared horrific and painful stories about explicit...
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