Contributed byFurman University

Sydney Kornegay, a Columbia Star cub reporter, has been named a Furman Scholar.

Furman Scholars from Columbia have been announced. The students, who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and shown interest in attending a liberal arts college, were nominated by their high school counselors. All the scholars have a 3.75 grade point average, rank in the top five percent of their classes, and have strong test scores. The scholars who are accepted to the university are guaranteed a tuition of $3,500. Furman University is listed among the nation's top 50 liberal arts colleges in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Recipients from the Columbia area are Vivian J. Bailey, Amy M. Betenbaugh, Shannon E. Durham, Sydney B. Kornegay, James C. Manning, Lauren E. McFadden, John W. A. Burk, Victorial L. Bodie, Michelle K. Fantone, Jason M. Hite, Jarrod H. Lanier Jr., Heather M. L'Ecuyer, Caroline E. Grego, Richard F. Hahn, Nathan A. Macaruso, Charles G. Marcil, Emily A. Schweickert, Juliet D. Sheridan, Luis M. Suarez, Alex M. Zhang, Christy M. Lester, Daniel E. Baker, Taylor E. Beard, Lloyd M. Felmly, Adrian N. Wilson Jr., Bobby Barton, Gregory S. Morrison, Allison J. Bullock, Atif A. Choudhury, Joanna E. Helms, Gregory Jansen, Kostadin Kostadinov, Michelle A. Pena, Robert J. Rolfe, Alicia N. Schep, Megan N. Brown, Daniel Cone, Tenley E. Desjardins, Brittany Jones, Anna K. Alber, Job L. Grant, Tristan J. McKinney, Michelle A. Metzler, Gary D. Hollis Jr., Nicholas I. King, Tawhid Rahman, Asa Drake, Daniel H. Hotchkiss, Krystle S. Miner, Andrew Noh, Miriam Richman, Molly Butler Wittig, and Ka R. Yi.