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Francis Marion University awarded degrees to 346 new graduates at its spring commencement ceremony on May 5.

Detrek Browning is the all-time scoring leader in men’s basketball history at Francis Marion. He’s also the reigning Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year, just the second all-American selection from men’s basketball, and just the third FMU basketball player to have his jersey retired.

Taylor Broach and Jessica McNeil were great friends going through college. They hung out, took many of the same classes, and did a lot of things friends do. They also made the Biology lab at Francis Marion University their second home for their final year in college, researching cervical cancer and different alleles of the [...]

Professors and the relationships they build with students are one of the most important aspects of college life at Francis Marion University. Javier Bustos Jaimes, a part of FMU’s class of 2018, knows all about that. Bustos Jaimes, a much-decorated Industrial Engineering-Mathematics double major from Eagle Springs, N.C., says his connections with FMU faculty made [...]

On a day in late May just three years ago, FMU Nursing student Grayson Hucks endured an unexpected series of events that would forever change the course of her life.

Mia Much, one of the stars of the Class of 2018, is spreading the Francis Marion to the far ends of the earth. Even California Melania “Mia” Much grew up in the northern suburbs of San Diego and is quick to describe herself as a “southern California girl, born and bred.” Now, she can describe [...]

Yang met the major requirements in Accounting, Finance and Mathematics and became just the second triple major in Francis Marion’s history.