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Faculty members present chamber music Jan. 15
The Furman Faculty Chamber Music Series will present a concert Friday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus. The event is open to the public, and is part of Furman’s Sound Quality...
Continue ReadingTompkins presents organ recital Jan. 21
Furman University will present a concert featuring faculty member and University Organist Charles Tompkins Thursday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel. Part of Furman’s annual Church Music Conference, the recital is open to...
Continue ReadingLaura Morris joins English Department faculty
Laura Morris, Ph.D., wasn’t filling just any opening when she was hired over the summer as Furman’s newest English professor. “Everybody here has been calling me the new Gil Allen,” she said. “Some pretty big...
Continue ReadingFurman Professor Simmons Named to Inaugural All-SoCon Faculty Team
Furman philosophy professor J. Aaron Simmons, Ph.D., has been named to the inaugural All-Southern Conference Faculty Team, the league announced Monday. Representatives from all 10 member schools were recognized by the league. The recipients shared demonstrated service...
Continue ReadingFurman’s Malici calls for reason over rhetoric and fear-mongering
Furman University political science professor Dr. Akan Malici offers another opinion piece in the Greenville News—his third in as many months. In it, he notes the consequences of succumbing to the barrage of media hype...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute honors late Senator Clementa Pinckney, Mayor Joe Riley, Governor Nikki Haley
Furman’s Riley Institute has announced that the late South Carolina Senator Clementa Pinckney, along with Governor Nikki Haley and Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, are this year’s recipients of the David H. Wilkins Awards for Excellence. The...
Continue ReadingMaking the holidays a little brighter
[caption id="attachment_20318" align="alignright" width="259"] Jeremiah Drummond, right, is an Emerging Public Leader in the Riley Institute.[/caption] Jeremiah Drummond, a Dorman High School senior, is helping needy families capture the Christmas spirit this year by providing...
Continue ReadingFaculty, staff receive grants from ACS
Nine Furman faculty and staff members have received grants from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), an organization serving 16 nationally ranked liberal arts institutions. ACS Faculty Development Grants are funded by the Mellon Foundation...
Continue ReadingFurman awards Childers Teaching Excellence Award to two 2015 graduates
Mary Varley, a first-year third grade teacher at Anderson Mill Elementary School in Spartanburg District 6, and John Morrison, a social studies student teacher intern at Berea High School in Greenville, have been named recipients...
Continue ReadingAn educational moment in Brussels
As the search for a suspected terrorist spread to Brussels, Belgium following the recent attacks in Paris, a study away group from Furman got an experience it never expected—a close-up look at the top news...
Continue ReadingMalici: We must starve “clash of civilizations” narrative
While sensational and headline-grabbing, political rhetoric directed at Muslims “plays into the hands of terrorist propaganda that America is at war with Islam,” says Furman University Political Science Professor Akan Malici. He describes how feeding...
Continue ReadingFurman alums write about the Merkel magic
Before Time magazine named Angela Merkel its 2015 Person of the Year, Furman alums Claire Greenstein ’11 and Brandon Tensley ’12 wrote about the influential German Chancellor for Foreign Affairs magazine. In the op-ed, “The...
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