Community Health
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Dr. Kerry Sease talks about heart health on WSPA’s ‘Your Carolina’
February is American Heart Month, and the first Friday of the month is National Wear Red Day. Furman University’s Dr. Kerry Sease joined Dr. Saria Saccocio on WSPA’s “Your Carolina” with host and Furman alumnus Jamarcus Gaston ’07 (music and communication studies) to talk about the No. 1...Read more -
Furman Board of Trustees approves faculty promotions and tenure
The Furman University Board of Trustees approved promotions and tenure for a number of faculty members during its spring meeting in May. All recommendations for promotion and tenure are effective Aug. 1, 2025. The following faculty members were granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor: Anastasia...Read more -
Public health research opens doors for public health student
Furman University student Roger Abim-Karmon ’26 spoke steadily and confidently as he discussed his summer research with the staff of Hollingsworth Funds, the foundation established by the late Greenville industrialist John D. Hollingsworth Jr. to support Furman University and other local nonprofits, on June 26. The public health major...Read more -
Medical-legal MayX offers perspective on poverty
Kirby Mitchell prescribed his Furman University class a healthy dose of perspective during this year’s summer May Experience term. “Poverty, Medicine and the Law: Greenville’s Medical-Legal Partnership” challenges students to consider how low-income people navigate court without a lawyer or access healthcare without insurance. They don’t just ruminate...Read more -
Furman campus makes another ‘Most Beautiful’ list, Greenville City EDC takes note
The Furman University campus won praise in an unranked list of 54 U.S. campuses compiled by editors at Condé Nast Traveler. They highlighted the university’s signature Italianate bell tower and Asia Garden, among other features. The Greenville City Economic Development Corporation ran with the news on Instagram (login...Read more -
Furman’s IACH helps map hunger throughout the state
How can a community fight food insecurity if they don’t know what’s causing it? Furman University’s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health (IACH) has partnered with Food is Medicine South Carolina (FiMSC) and Openfields to map food...Read more -
A Riley Diversity Leaders Initiative group puts little libraries in salon, barber shop
Tucked away from the snipping of scissors and the hum of hair dryers, children lounge in plush chairs, books in hand. They have their own cozy libraries where they can read in private, or where parents can sit with their children and flip through books they pick off the...Read more