Author: Breanna Lisenby

Feb
02

Francis Marion to celebrate 2017 Homecoming Feb. 11

Francis Marion University’s 2017 Homecoming week will kick off on Monday, Feb. 6 with a series of daily activities leading up to the main Homecoming events on Saturday, Feb 11. FMU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will face off against Peach Belt Conference foe Flagler College in the Smith University Center gym in the flagship [...]
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Feb
01

Francis Marion to honor Black History Month

Francis Marion University will honor Black History Month with an its annual Black History Month Celebration on Thursday, Feb. 2 at the Chapman Auditorium in the McNair Science Building at 4 p.m. Dr. Randy Bridges, the superintendent of Florence School District One, will present as the event’s keynote speaker. Bridges, named superintendent in 2015, has [...]
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Jan
29

FMU names non-profit institute for the late Fred Sheheen

Francis Marion University honored long-time university friend and advocate of the downtrodden, the late Fred Sheheen, at a special event at the FMU Performing Arts Center Thursday night. More than 150 state leaders, university officials and faculty, and friends and family turned out for a tribute to Sheheen that culminated with naming of the FMU [...]
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Jan
25

FMU’s Tom Roop left an endearing legacy

The Francis Marion University community is in mourning over the loss of Dr. Tom Roop, one of the great figures in the university’s 47-year history. Roop, a professor of biology at FMU from 1972-2004, passed away at his home on January 14. He’ll be honored on campus this Saturday, Jan. 21. A visitation with family [...]
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Dec
17

Sheheen to Francis Marion University graduates: be courageous

Francis Marion University awarded 350 degrees at its fall commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Smith Center on the FMU campus. The graduates included 282 baccalaureate degrees and 68 graduate students in Business, Education, Nursing and Psychology. Among the undergraduates students who marched were  27 majors  from FMU’s new Healthcare Administration program. They [...]
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Dec
16

It’s world tour time for FMU’s piano master

Hitting the road for a concert is nothing new for FMU Professor of Music Dr. Paolo Gualdi. The award-winning pianist regularly piles up the miles, both in the United States and Europe, playing recitals and teaching master classes. But Gualdi’s schedule during the upcoming Winter Break is extreme, even for him. During a 25-day stretch [...]
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Dec
10

FMU physics grad hopes to work on Wall Street

When Jared Singleton was a young boy, his parents cut the number of cable channels the family received. One they didn’t cut -- whether by choice or accident -- was the Science Channel, a network devoted to the exploration and explanation of scientific history and happenings. Young Jared discovered it. Fast forward a few years [...]
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Dec
09

New Healthcare Admin degree flourishing at FMU

New academic programs typically  require a crawl-walk-run phase as they ramp up and become a full-fledged major. Francis Marion University’s new Healthcare Administration major isn’t typical. The inaugural graduating class, which marched Saturday in FMU’s Fall 2016 commencement, boasts 27 students. That’s third most in any major among the more than 300 graduates at this [...]
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Apr
28

Dr. Jennifer Kelley wins Faculty Public Service Award

Her work included time spent in outreach, helping students find jobs, taking students to the Regional American Chemical Society meetings…

By Breanna Lisenby | Chemistry . Chemistry News
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Jan
26

Associate English Professor Named Winner of Fellowship

Dr. Jo Angela Edwins: Associate Professor of English, was named the 2014 winner of the 5th Annual Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship in poetry by the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Edwins’ manuscript was chosen in a blind competition by this year’s judge, poet Lavonne J. Adams. The fellowship in poetry was established in 2009 to […]

By Breanna Lisenby | English . Liberal Arts News
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Jan
26

Associate English Professor Publishes New Anthology of Prize-Winning Short Stories

Associate Professor of English Philip Gardner, whose previous collections include Somebody Wants Somebody Dead (Boson Books 2012) and Someone to Crawl Back To (Boson Books 2003), has a new anthology of 18 select and prize-winning short stories, appearing as Available Light (Bitingduck Press, November 1, 2013).

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Jan
26

FMU Professor Emeritus Publishes Sixth Book

Dr. John Britton, long-time member of the Francis Marion University Department of History and now Professor Emeritus, had his sixth book recently published. Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903, has been published by the University of New Mexico Press.

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