From computer programs that assist in medical decisions to innovative crop-cultivating techniques to software that analyzes military intelligence, computer science is embedded in a growing number of careers today. Demand is high, and opportunities are plentiful for people with...
Sitting in a community meeting in Juliette in early 2020, Evey Wilson Wetherbee was struck by the emotion that filled the room. Residents living near the unlined coal ash pond of Georgia Power’s Plant Scherer were scared, angry and...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the nation’s first reported cases of the disease that would later become known as AIDS.
Over the past four decades, Mercer University professors have contributed to the research of the disease while providing...
The nighttime sky will put on a lengthy show for those willing to stay up late — or get up early — on Friday morning. An almost-total lunar eclipse will be visible across North America before dawn Nov. 19,...
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....
Share your love for Mercer University this holiday season by giving a gift created by a Mercerian. Whether you’re buying presents for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or just because, The Den’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide is sure to have something...
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 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...
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...
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...
