Mercer University’s biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB) degree program has received full accreditation from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). The BMB program, housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is an interdisciplinary major offered...
Three Class of 2023 graduates recently helped plan and execute the Mercer computer science department’s first high school programming contest. Saif Hasan, Everett Reynolds and Andrew Triplett worked with Dr. Bob Allen, computer science professor and chair, on this service...
Since fall 2015, Mercer’s Visionary Student Panel (VSP) has helped bring big ideas for addressing real-world problems to life. An initiative of the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)/Research That Reaches Out office, VSP started out as a crowd-sourced program...
Mercer encourages students and new graduates to see the world and provides a host of opportunities for them to do so. While traveling abroad, they have their horizons expanded and their eyes opened to once unimaginable possibilities for their...
Mercer University students’ research on the Haitian diaspora in Georgia is helping the State Department engage with people from Haiti in the United States.  This spring, students in Dr. Katherine Roseau’s studies in Francophone cultures class identified Haitian churches, restaurants,...
When a state programming contest couldn’t happen in person, Mercer University faculty and students rose to the challenge of offering it virtually. Every year, students in third through 12th grades who win at regional technology contests are invited to participate...
It’s no secret that research is embedded in undergraduate education at Mercer. Students are encouraged to get involved in research early, and an infrastructure of hands-on learning experiences, one-on-one mentorship and support gives them a competitive edge when it comes to graduate research fellowships in the sciences. 
A Mercer University education professor is helping future teachers rediscover the joy and childlike wonder of science. In her class, EDUC 421: Science for All Learners, Dr. Meenakshi Sharma, assistant professor of science education in the Tift College of Education,...
A Guinea orphanage made such a positive impression on Sarah Harris and Carrie Bezanson last summer that they jumped at the chance to return for an internship.  They were among the participants for the 2018 Mercer On Mission (MOM) three-week trip to southern Guinea. The Mercer team worked...
Twentieth-century anthropologists coined the term “liminality” to describe transitional moments when people become separated from their previously held identity, beliefs and habits and have the opportunity to become someone completely new.   University Minister and Dean of Chapel Dr. Craig McMahan...

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