For nearly seven years, Mercer University has been a key partner in the United Way of Central Georgia’s Read United initiative. Each year, 200 Bears serve as Read2Succeed tutors to Bibb County elementary school students, helping them to improve...
As a teacher for the past 16 years, Sean Splawski has brought outside-the-box, high-energy lessons to the table. He always knew he was doing something unique in his classrooms, and driven by his research at Mercer University, he created...
Fifty future educators got an in-depth look at a local school district during a recent field trip. Mercer University’s Tift College of Education and Bibb County Schools partnered to host Bears in Bibb, and plans are already in the...
Dr. Laura Boman, assistant professor of marketing in Mercer’s Stetson-Hatcher School of Business, recently co-authored “Less Light, Better Bite,” a research paper that received international media attention for its findings about how lighting impacts the taste of food. Dr. Boman...
When Ethiel Garlington first visited the Beall’s Hill neighborhood in 2014, he knew he had found an unusual place: a diverse Macon neighborhood marked by thoughtfully renovated historic homes, small, family-run businesses, and an adjoining university campus. Young Mercer...
Jean Sumner, M.D., grew up in rural middle Georgia, in a family of physicians. Her father and grandfather were doctors in Washington County. Her brothers and uncles also took up the family profession. But it wasn’t until Dr. Sumner...
Dr. Craig McMahan keeps a video on his cellphone. The footage begins with an image of a middle-aged Vietnamese farmer, his arms slung over a set of rickety crutches, struggling back and forth across a room. His baseball hat is...
A seemingly innocent, insignificant comment or behavior can have a detrimental effect on the person to whom it’s directed. Microaggressions are commonplace interactions that communicate a bias — often unintentionally — toward a marginalized individual or group, and chances...
Students in a physics class recently found themselves learning in an unlikely place: the basement of Mercer Music at Capricorn. Down below the historic Capricorn Sound Studios, Mercer University students clustered around one of the small cinderblock rooms lined with...
A Mercer University professor has been studying strategies to make vaccines for COVID-19 and other diseases more stable for storage and transportation purposes and, therefore, more accessible on a global level.  Vaccine formulation development is the research focus of Dr....

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