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Happy 99th birthday to Dr. Charles Townes!
Furman graduate and Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes turns 99 on July 28, a day which is being celebrated in both California and South Carolina. Townes, who received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for...
Continue ReadingThe power of a story told well
Furman journalism instructor Lyn Riddle has “no idea” how many awards she has won over her nearly four-decade journalism career, and she also has no idea how many people she’s helped. What she does know,...
Continue ReadingA most influential scientific mind
Allison Aiken, a 2002 Furman graduate and scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, has been named to Thomson Reuters list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” Aiken, who works in the...
Continue ReadingHappy 99th Birthday to Dr. Charles Townes!
Furman graduate and Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes turns 99 on July 28, a day which is being celebrated in both California and South Carolina. Townes, who received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for...
Continue ReadingFurman lauded for doing “green” right
Furman is featured on a new nationwide list of 100 colleges that do an outstanding job of teaching sustainability and promoting it in their communities. The university was included in Teaching Sustainability: 100 Colleges Doing “Green” Right,...
Continue ReadingBreaking the cycle
South Carolinians who are struggling need a living wage if they are ever to climb out of poverty, said a state representative at the summer series of StraightTalkSC, sponsored by the Riley Institute at Furman...
Continue ReadingCook receives Meritorious Teaching Award
Nathan Cook was one of two Furman University faculty members to be awarded the Alester G. Furman Jr. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching during the May 2014 Commencement exercises. The Furmans endowed...
Continue ReadingAsian immersion
Charles Stayer plans to come to his Advanced Placement Geography classes dressed a little differently this fall. Stayer, a teacher and dean of students at Coastal Christian Preparatory School in Mount Pleasant, will don a...
Continue ReadingChampioning innovation at Furman
In the fall of his senior year of high school, Ben Riddle was accepted to Furman, a school located in his hometown and where his parents attended. Then in March of 2012, he was accepted...
Continue ReadingFurman grads take Yik Yak to new level
Two 2013 Furman graduates—Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll—have raised $10 million from major Silicon Valley investors to fund Yik Yak, a location-based social app that allows users to post messages anonymously to other users in...
Continue ReadingFurman a great place to work
The Chronicle of Higher Education has once again designated Furman as a great place to work. Furman was one of 92 colleges that were recognized in the Chronicle’s seventh annual “Great Colleges to Work For” survey. The...
Continue Reading“Crisis of the working poor” series continues
The Riley Institute and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University present Straight Talk SC, their fourth annual weekly series. The second session in the series, “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working...
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