MACON – Mercer Music at Capricorn and Riggs Ward Design received the Gold award for Experiential and Immersive Design in the 2021 MUSE Creative Awards and MUSE Design Awards, which received nearly 4,000 entries showcasing creative and design excellence from...
A Mercer University program has been taking faculty research to the next level and showing students how service work can combine with research.
The University’s Quality Enhancement Plan/Research That Reaches Out Office began its 10-week Summer Student Research Program in...
A Mercer University School of Medicine professor is leading a team that is building an index to measure the impact of climate change on mental health.
Dr. Jennifer Barkin, associate professor of community medicine and obstetrics and gynecology, already developed the Barkin Index of Maternal Functioning to assess how a woman...
A Mercer University School of Music professor has reimagined three classic hymns in a style more reminiscent of 1990s grunge than 1800s folk gospel.
Dr. Nathan Myrick, assistant professor of church music, and colleague Dr. Marcell Silva Steuernagel, assistant professor of church music at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, initially...
Standing in a grassy area on the Macon campus, about a dozen members of the Mercer Robotics Club prepared to launch a massive balloon deep into the Earth’s atmosphere.
The hydrogen-filled balloon — known as a high-altitude research platform, or HARP — can travel to an altitude of 100,000 feet, allowing students to study their...
College of Pharmacy Professor Martin D’Souza and researchers at Emory University were awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study whether oxytocin-encapsulated nanoparticles targeted to the brain, will help lessen seizures and behavioral deficits in childhood epilepsy.
Most anti-epileptic...
Mercer University students in an advanced French course finished up the spring semester with a virtual meeting with an award-winning writer. Kim Thúy, author of the autobiographical novel Ru, joined Dr. Katherine Roseau’s transnational francophone literature class on Zoom...
Tucked inside an exclusive golf club on St. Simons Island, shaded by live oak trees draped in moss, lie about 100 graves of the enslaved and their descendants.
Accessible only to those with relatives buried there, Retreat Cemetery strands in...
Early one November morning, Dr. David Keith, dean of Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music, was preparing to speak at a club meeting in Macon. At about 6 a.m., he checked the news.
“And something caught my eye,” he recalled.
It was a news story about a man named Paul Harvey, a British composer with dementia. Harvey...
A Mercer University course has given students the skills and knowledge to digest science fiction films and better understand what they say about the world.
Dr. Cameron Kunzelman, coordinator of fellowships and scholarships and a 2012 Mercer graduate, taught this...
