Nine hundred and eighty slave transactions — and counting.
For years, Bibb County deed books from the 1800s sat unopened, collecting dust inside the courthouse. But since 2018, a team of researchers has been studying and cataloging their contents, which...
MACON – A major initiative launched by Mercer University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to improve pediatric health care in rural Georgia will initially involve hospitals, pediatricians and school systems representing 11 rural Georgia counties. School...
Mercer University art students have created animations to show how the COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting their daily lives.
The animations were created in Professor Craig Coleman's digital imaging class using a technique called rotoscoping. Rotoscoping is where the artist...
Mercer University alumnus Chris Scrivner was at work when he got a call about a three-legged puppy that needed some help.
The dog was missing a paw, and would he make a prosthetic leg for him?
“I said, ‘Yeah, absolutely,’” recalled...
Mercer University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta announced they will be working together to launch a major initiative focused on improving pediatric healthcare in rural Georgia.
Seventy-nine years after a young military pilot bartered some of his belongings in exchange for a human shrunken head in the Amazon rainforest, the ceremonial artifact is returning home to Ecuador.
Until recently, the shrunken head — or tsantsa, as...
Hundreds of Cambodian amputees with ill-fitting and heavy prosthetics — or none at all — are now able to move easier thanks to a Mercer On Mission team that traveled to the country this summer.
Mercer University students, faculty and...
MACON/ATLANTA – Mercer University was featured April 27-May 1 on The Academic Minute, a national production of WAMC public radio network headquartered in Albany, New York.
The two-and-a-half minute daily show, hosted by Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of...
In a canyon in Hocking Hills, Ohio, a group of men wearing 18th century-style clothing used surveying instruments to map the wilderness around them. The methods of the re-enacting surveyors were captured on camera in the heat of summer...
A Mercer professor is part of an interdisciplinary research team that has developed a device that can test for COVID-19 at earlier stages and provide instant results.
Dr. Sahar Hasim, an assistant professor of biology whose research specializes in microbiology...
