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Crisis of the Working Poor series continues Tuesday

The Riley Institute and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University present Straight Talk SC, their fourth annual weekly series. The third session in the series, “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working...

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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...

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The 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,...

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A 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...

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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...

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Furman 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,...

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Breaking 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...

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Cook 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...

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Asian 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...

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Championing 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...

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